Starting our final week

Every nice story has to come to an end and ours is no different. Even though we have been dreading this moment to come, our last week here in Israel has arrived. We are trying to make it fun though!

For our last time English corner we decided to start a special project. Normally we work around speaking and spoken interaction by doing fun activities and little games, but this time we wanted to go big. We took some of the students from 8^th and 9^th grade and made a whole project around four of the most famous English stories: Rome & Juliet, Charlie & the chocolate factory, Arabian nights and Alice in Wonderland. The assignment was simple: we gave them a very short version of the story and its background, a big piece of paper and all the equipment and help they could want, but the ideas had to come from them.

 

The results were overwhelming! The students were very positive and started some very nice things on the papers! They used a lot of different materials, from paint and markers, to cut out pictures from magazines and drawing, it was so fun!

 
Sunday we will finish up the collages and present them in fun ways.

What else have we done/are we going to do this final week?

 
Well, yesterday we went to the beach in Haifa! I know, just like a bunch of tourists, but we deserved the break to get our weekend going! 

Sunday we will probably be teaching our last day and finishing up English corner, which will be quite sad to say goodbye to everyone! 

Monday it's a holiday here, so there’s no school! We will go to Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee to visit everything there and maybe have a little swim. Let’s see if we can walk on the water, I read somewhere it’s a fun activity.

Tuesday we will visiting Agricultural school. This is a special type of school where our Israeli mommy, Aisha, works. It teaches children everything about, you guessed it, agriculture and how to take care of the environment.

 
Wednesday we will be enjoying our last day by doing some cleaning and packing our bags, because Thursday is the day of our return. We will be leaving Tamra quite early in the morning to make sure we get to the airport on time. For anyone who wants to wait for us at the airport, 19.50 our flight lands! Hope to see you all there!

Yalla bye!