7.12 - Conversation Class

Every Tuesday, I facilitate a conversation class for students of TBU. We've talked about various topics: politics(American, Czech and world), family life, holidays, university life, movies(films in British English), California's economy, and other random topics. Today, we discussed our weekends and I brought a suprise.

I photocopied some pages from my Calvin & Hobbes comic book. It's my favorite comic by Bill Watterson. Actually, Nata introduced it to me. The point is that students really enjoyed it even though I had to explain the humor a bit tediously. Afterwards, I asked for their opinions regarding the situation in Ukraine. All were very concerned, well informed and had been actively following the events throughout these three weeks. One student had just finished watching a documentary-type film which attempted to parallel the atmosphere in Ukraine today with the atmosphere in the Czech Republic in 1989, during their Velvet Revolution. One student argued that the situations were not at all the same and a parallel was far fetched, but we came to an agreement in the end, that the feeling of having a voice in your country's future is where the parallel exist.

Overall, it was a great class. I'm looking forward to next week.

Shantanu from the MC will visit tonight. Let's see what he has to present??