Sunday 08/03/09
Today is our first day in Tomasżow Maz. After a “good” experience in the traditional Polish bus, we finally reached the town. My host, Sylwia, is a super nice girl who treat me like her younger sister (although the fact is that I am much older than her =P). And she looks like Chinese, with brown hair, slightly yellow skin and brown eyes! The town is beautiful, with huge forest surrounded by the Pilica river. After a short introduction with the teacher, Sylwia drive me back to her house. I like the houses in the town. Every household paint its house with its favorite colour, so it’s common to see a green house, a yellow house, a white house and a pink house along one street. Even for flat, it was painted with different colours. The bus stop can be yellow, red or white; even the dustbin has different colours. Anyway, the whole town is so colourful and lively! =)
Sylwia is not very good at English, neither are her friends, Gasia, and her sister. So it is really interesting to have conversation with them. And I am so touched when they take out the dictionary and trying to check the words while talking to me. At that moment, I really feel how important our presence or our visiting is to the students and the school that they try to make all the effort they can to communicate with us. At the beginning of the internship, our OCP was trying to tell us how important our visits were to the schools. He said some of the teachers were even crying when they learnt that they had to chance to participate in the PEACE project. I didn’t believe at that time and I thought he was exaggerating the face and trying to motivate us. However, after traveling to different schools in the whole month, meeting the mayor of the city, getting interviewed by the newspaper and local media and seeing how students crowded around us asking question, I realized that he did not exaggerate anything. We were really treated like superstars in the school and even in the town, in everywhere we go.
Oh, I forgot to mention that today is women’s day! And in Tomasżow Maz., this is a festival for all women, so both Denise (another intern from Brazil) and I received tulips from the students =) =) =)
Name: Feng Ying
LC: NUS
Country matched to: Poland
Type of Internship: DT
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