#worldwiseschools

Big thank you to the students in both countries and my partner teachers in each place, Galina Rusu and Bridget Brown.

This is a follow-up to an earlier post about the overall presidential election process.

Tomorrow is #WorldHandWashingDay! Thanks to a cool group of kindergartners in a girls technology club, we had a new activity to recognize this global health day. SAC is a club that promotes girls & technology - we met through the World Wise Schools program. The girls made a presentation from scratch for us about properly washing hands. They researched, took photos, and made a PowerPoint. They did a great job! We're using this in #HealthEducation and to make it even more accessible I printed the slides to hang as a display. Class 9-B translated these today in class, so that everyone can learn the steps of effective hand-washing in both Romanian and English. #WorldWiseSchools #LetGirlsLearn #BorisDînga (at Liceul Teoretic " Boris Dânga " Criuleni)

I'm starting the day with Mrs. Rusnac's 9th grade homeroom class. All the classes (without exams) are reviewing national environmental catastrophies, like major fires and floods. We're discussing both prevention and how to proceed when they happen. #BorisDînga has several projectors, but not enough for nearly every class to use in a day. So, we're using my laptop for some presentations. Since i'm here, we're adding on a #Goal2 activity. :) I'm excited to spend the last part of the homeroom hour on a #WorldWiseSchools activity thanks to @bridgetheartsbooks' student's "day in my life" video! (at Liceul Teoretic " Boris Dânga " Criuleni)

Our fellow volunteer and friends Jenny & Sandra made a video that we love! The video is for Sandra’s World Wise Schools partners and responds to questions they sent her. Jenny helped her show what her life and school is like by compiling images into the video. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

Final day of Pen Pal culture exchange between here and Arizona. Though a bit blurry, we managed to coordinate a 15 minute skype call for students to see each other! | April 15, 2016

Letter Exchange | On Saturday I will send off 25 letters from the 3rd graders of Terrabona. We talked about what we want to share about Nicaragua, what we want to learn about the United States, and why it is important to understand other cultures. We are anxiously awaiting our letters from Arizona!  For me, facilitating culture exchange is the most rewarding part of my service | March 2, 2016

Wow! There are so many reasons we're grateful to Mrs Irina for starring in tonight's #JoyOfCooking #PeaceCorpsWeek #WorldWiseSchools webinar. The surprise ending to this great night of learning, cooking, talking, and generally enjoying each other's company was a huge stack of mostly potato placinte, two tofu ones, and a sweet treats one we made to finish off the dough. Va multimim frumos, dna Irina! (at CRIULENI R.M.)