Labas visiems,
I think you all know
already about our initiatives we‘re organizing in the afternoon and
sure you‘ve read Fine‘s article about her ecological activity
with the kids. I know I‘ve also promised you quite some time ago an
article about my Bocce training which at this point I still have to
delay. You know, tomorrow I will go again to a competition with some
of my players and I will take my impressions from there as an
opportunity to also tell you about the frequent practices. So, stay
patient with me a little longer. Today I‘d like to tell you about
another activity of mine. You know, since a while all four of us also
organize some lessons with our school classes. How many, how often
and which activities these include are of course again different from
each of us. In my case, I started to cook once a week with my class.
My interest in
cooking or actually mainly baking is something that just happened
since I‘m here in Lithuania. I‘ve been cooking before of course
but definitely not as much as I do here now and also I didn‘t enjoy
it as much as I do now. It‘s amongst other things a result of a
kind of new sense of initiative that I‘ve developed since I am
doing my EVS here in Lithuania. I‘ve often been thinking ‚oh, it
would be so cool to do that or to know how to do this‘ and so on,
but it had always stayed a thought. Here by the time I found myself
taking those thoughts finally in action, so ‚it would be so cool to
have this dish now‘ got into me actually starting to cook this
dish. And I love it, I really really love it.
So, long story
short, it was quite naturally for me that I wanted to share this love
with my kids to maybe make them enjoy it as much as I do. Since a few
weeks every Friday we spend two lessons in the school‘s kitchen
together to prepare the most different things. I started by
introducing them to one of the best things the Austrian cuisine has
to offer: Kaiserschmarrn. Seriously, whenever you come to Austria,
get sure that you’ll try some of it. You’ll love it. I can tell
you that I was quite nervous in the beginning, as much as I wanted to
share my joy for cooking with my class I also knew that it might not
be the easiest task to interest a bunch of youths on top of puberty
in preparing meals and deserts. But it soon turned out that all my
doubts were for nought. They all like taking part in the work and
show a lot of interest in the ways of preparation. It’s a very
natural and relaxed atmosphere in those lessons in which we also talk
a lot with each other and of course also joke around a little. I
really love spending this time with my class.
Although I am
basically the teacher in those lessons I also learn a lot myself. I
started planning the meals we want to prepare together with the
youths of my class and asked them, what they would like to do. They
proposed A LOT of Lithuanian dishes that I couldn’t even write down
correctly and of course I had no idea how to prepare them either.
It’s interesting for me to get to know those things and get the
chance to try them myself also. And I think for my youths it’s also
a great experience to be able to show me something they know more
about than me. The last time indeed we pretty much changed the roles
and I ended up as the student with a group of teachers. I enjoyed it
a lot.
skruzdelynas
So, these lessons
are now part of my weekly routine and definitely a part of the
schedule that I’m always looking forward to. I love the work with
my class and I hope to be able to show them something that’s at
least a little useful for them. Being able to prepare some meals
themselves is a piece of autonomy to me that I want to give them. I’m
looking forward to all the lessons yet to come a lot and I am really
thankful that I got this chance to realize my own imaginations. You
see, I keep learning a lot here :)
a happy 'teacher' :)
Iki
pasimatymo,
Monika
P.S.: my youths all don't like it too much to find photos of them spread on the internet so please excuse the lack of pictures showing them fully
