Нашата Келси

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Our Kelsey

Kelsey Hilbers is a volunteer from the Peace Corps in the Avren Municipality and works with the students from the Hristo Botev Primary School in the village of Avren. She is involved in the preparation of all celebrations in our school. At the same time, she introduces our children to holiday traditions of Americans – she tells how things are in the USA, what foods are served at the table, and what songs and dances are performed.

            Particularly interesting for the children of Avren was her description of Thanksgiving and Halloween. Everybody enjoyed drawing and making figurines - origami in connection with the celebration.

            Kelsey attends school during the midday hours, and during leisure time her and the children play different sport games, thus they interact with her and enjoy learning English.

            Often the young American is our guest in English classes and tells the children about the USA, her place of birth and American schools.

            In honor of the 21^st of March, World Water Day, Kelsey demonstrated to the students modern ways of water quality investigation, like using chemicals for testing samples of different water sources. The most interesting for the children was to do the tests themselves. For the younger students there were games prepared with an ecological emphasis.

            The volunteer from the Peace Corps actively joined in this year’s honoring of Earth Day, April 22^nd that started on the 19^th with a showing of the film “The Sick Planet” and a discussion on ecological problems of human kind. On the next day there was a clean up activity organized for the school area, the sport area, the stadium, the park, and other nearby areas. Preliminarily, at her suggestion, was the registration in the green planet initiative of the Community Center of Smolyan for two school teams – “Profiles” (children from elementary courses) and “Young Nature Lover” (students from upper courses). The motto “ Bulgaria:  A Liter Free Zone” armed every participant with enthusiasm and diligence. The planned sites were cleaned and the satisfaction and light fatigue made the sense of accomplishment from the finished work sweeter.  

            During this school year the joint work between Kelsey Hilbers and the students and teachers of the Hristo Botev Primary School in the village of Avren will be very beneficial and interesting for the students.

~Avren

Local Municipal Paper

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