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Monday, October 11, 2010

The First Weeks of the 2010-2011 School Year

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First Day of School - leaning out the teachers' room window, watching students and parents gathering


Bearing Flowers - First graders bring flowers, real and artificial, to their teachers on the first day of school



Class 7A
 

Class 7B


Class 8 - can you vibe the personality? :)


The Seniors!!! (Maturant)


School director, Veli Xhelili, and brave student delivering first day speeches on the front steps before assembled townsfolk


Patient Listeners - members of Class 7


Molly and Visa


Visa and Najada "Ada" Pasho, math and information technology teacher


The faculty - 24 teachers and two administrators, plus three village teachers, serving 370 students in grades 1 - 12


Nikolla "Niko" Josifi, school music and art teacher


Shelegur's First Day of School - our village students following their first English lesson of the year.  From left to right: Enea, eight years old; Kleo, nine years old; Aldo, eight years old; Flori, four years old; and Armando, ten years old


Visa and some of the most well-behaved students you will ever find; in the Shelegur schoolhouse


First Graders


Retired Teacher Speechifying - Polikran, former school director and teacher of Russian and Albanian literature.  Under Hoxha, he spent more than fifteen years in prison and performed hard labor for expressing pro-American views.  He now has a son in the 10th grade.  He told me all of this one day while I was stacking wood for winter.


Filing In


Visa and Diana Mici, physical education and health/survival skills teacher


Stavrulla "Vulli", math teacher


The Schoolhouse in Shelegur - Enea racing to catch up for a berry-picking excursion


The End :)


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