Time just flies by in JACis! (2.11.2014 -7.11. 2014)

Time just flies by in JACis! A week has passed, and it is time to tell you about the exciting things which happened.

The volunteers went to different schools in order to teach kids about their home countries and mother tongues. There were several very interesting lessons on Romanian geography, including a presentation, a true or false game and an exciting round of discussion. 

At roughly the same time, but in another classroom, a lesson on the German language happened. It is always exciting to go to classes, because it just allows you to reach a completely different crowd of kids, some of which you would've never met at JACis. And if they show up the next day, that is even better.

Speaking of what is going on in our "second home" JACis, we had quite pleasant visitors from Riga; they were the employees and volunteer of the "Jasma" youth center on their annual tour through Latgale. We decided to make caramelized bananas for them, a task that seemed easy on the paper, but herculean in reality. Soon, a feint smell of burned things filled the center, as we were frantically waving at the smoke detector in order to keep in from raising concern at the local fire brigade. The second batch turned out fine, though! We had some interesting exchanges with the Jasma people, and were even invited to visit them.

 The last big event of the week did not happen in JACis, but rather in the big "Pencil" (Zeimuls educational service center). We prepared a meeting of some locals and a group of Norwegian students, who were in town in order to study the renovation of Rezeknes sole synagogue, which is currently in a state of disrepair. The meeting went quite well despite some last minute changes and a fair bit of improvisation.But that did not totally mark the end of the flurry of interesting things that happened last week.

 On the weekend, our dear colleagues from Vecpiebalga came by, and the weekend was spent making them familiar with this lovely city of ours.