Hello everyone! I haven’t shared anything about mu school with you yet. The school is over sixty years old and the building was erected in the early sixties. You can see that the time took its toll on it but the renovations are still going on. For the time being the effects are visible mainly inside but outside the flaking plaster is covered by the students’ graffiti in some places, which looks quite nice. Still, the front elevation is going to be renovated soon.
This is the back of the school. I love the larches there, now they still have the needles but of course they are not green anymore but rusty gold.
This is our staff room on the second floor. I don’t spend much time there as I have my own room at the back of my classroom and I’m usually there with the students or the colleagues who come to visit me during breaks.
Today I got a new whiteboard in my classroom. I was so happy as the old blackboard was so ancient that it wouldn’t accept any kind of chalk… The school maintenance man hung it together with two glass clip frames with the copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the US which I bought at the Smithsonian in Washington DC. You see, little things can make you really happy!
My classroom is in the basement, in fact at the very end of the school corridor, which makes it nice and quiet. It’s long and quite narrow so most teachers don’t like working there but I don’t mind it being narrow at all! As you can see in the picture, there are hot water pipes running along the walls just below the ceiling. It’s hard to cover them and I’m still working on the idea how to do it as it doesn’t look very nice.
This is the map I bought in Charlotte and it took me so much pain and suffering to bring it to Poland!
And this is the British corner and the door leading to my room. I hope soon I will be able to show you the American corner as I haven't found a proper place for the American flag I brought with me from the U. S.
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