Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Shanyrak Orphanage
















About twice a month I get the joy of volunteering to teach English at the Shanyrak Orphanage. The orphanage consists of children from 2 to 18 years old. They live in groups with all different age ranges and there is even a woman that takes care of them. They call her mother. The children are happy, healthy, and mostly eager to learn English. Since Cameron is on his spring break I took him along this time. Cameron was very excited, but I believe the older children enjoyed his company more.
For doing a good job on their lesson, Cameron gave each younger child a sticker. Stickers still go a long way even in Kazakhstan. After the lessons were finished the older children wanted to show Cameron their rabbits. Cameron even got to feed them and wanted to take one home. Maybe next time Cameron.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It looks like the stickers will go along way it making other children happy-- what a great lesson.
Nee Nee

Anonymous said...

M.E. and I are very proud that you teaching English to the orphan children.