Week 28 (Monday): Interviews and Ucranes!

Let’s start with the 6 interviews we did today 🙂

Tonia:

Sasha:

Dasha:

Vicka:

Tonia wanted me to do the interview too — I guess it was only fair!

Towards the end of today’s English Club, Sasha picked her little sister Anya up from the kindergarten next door, so she agreed to also do an interview 🙂

(The next portion is also posted on the Ucranes blog.):

This week, we are having 2 different English clubs, to make up for the English club last week that I had to miss because of an event at another school.

Today, Monday, we used our English club hour (it turned into almost two hours!) to finish the remaining 20 cranes — I had either counted incorrectly last time, or a bag of cranes had been misplaced — and to finish the posters and hang up the cranes.

Thank you to Suzanne, a Peace Corps Volunteer who just finished her service, for this origami (and thank you Jessie for passing it on to me!)

Sasha wrote the explanation of the project on one of the posters:

Vicka, Dasha, Sasha, and Sasha’s little sister, Anya (Tonia had to leave before we finished hanging everything up):

With me added in:

Us with a quarter of our cranes! We had to split up the cranes into groups of 250 around the lobby because they were too heavy to hang from anything when they were all together.

And the English Club was not the only group that made the cranes! Many of my classes participated, and were very enthusiastic about learning origami. Thank you to group 6B (one of my classes) for doing so many cranes and for doing so much work on the posters!