A multilingual day

How many languages can I encounter in one day?

Yesterday began with my first-ever stint as an English teacher - I was scheduled to teach two lessons about "Globalization" at a school on the north side of the city.  It turned out that the school taught French as well as English - a perfect fit for this Canadian gal!

The lessons went quite well, except for my lack of interactive whiteboard skills (one lovely student scored me a 5+ on the scale of 1-5)...here I am with some students from the first session, and the real English teachers + that pesky whiteboard.

In the evening I attended La Traviata (in Italian, of course, with some oh-so-helpful Ukrainian subtitles!) at the Opera House in Kiev.  I loved the Opera House, which is very grand & elaborately decorated, and thanks to Oleh we had fantastic seats at the front of the first floor balcony.  Plenty of leg room, and 3 intermissions (with Georgian wine and open-faced sandwiches!) so altogether very well designed for someone who's not so good at sitting still!


We ended our evening at "Club 44", a basement venue with some hopping live music.  I loved that people were dancing even though there was no dance floor!  Hard to go back to the days of indoor smoking though...  The club did serve a decent pint of stout (O'Haras) and also some great beer snacks which were like a garlic crouton made with dark rye.  Mmmmmm

A little editing work and lots of floor-washing today (a forgotten downside of snowy winters - muddy bootprints everywhere)...now I can enjoy the rest of my weekend with friends who are visiting from London!