#teacherday
The UNESCO founded the ‘world teacher day’ in 1994 during the international conference on education to honour the job as teacher and to spotlight the themes around education. The 5th of October was chosen because in the year 1966 during a special conference of the UNESCO a legislative proposal approved giving special recommendations on the social status of a teacher. It is still valid nowadays. This is a special add on for your general knowledge 😛
#party3rdofoctober
Saturday evening Ankhaa picked me up at 4:20 pm. I was quite surprised that she wanted to pick me up this early as they told me it would not start before 5pm. When Mongolians say a party starts at 5pm, it really starts around 6pm or even later. We took the Mongolian taxi, hitchhiking 😛 Together with someone who speaks Mongolian fluently and does not look as a foreigner as I do no problem. We arrived at 4:40pm, way too early. After ages, I had a seat inside at a table, completely alone as neither Swenja and Beree from the GI nor the teacher from the Inner Mongolia had arrived. The salad was already served and the teacher started to eat even though more than half of the teachers were missing. When Beree and Swenja arrived we did the same. Naturally, with Vodka on the tables. The Schnapps glasses were double then ours and they cheer a lot. I asked Swenja how we do as we are both not alcohol drinker. She told me we cheer with them but just sip at the glass. The teacher were all dressed up very nicely, some in traditional Mongolian dresses (called Deel – I definitely need one for the New Years Celebration!), the girls all went to the hairdresser.
The evening was full of acceptance speeches to the teacher, songs for the teacher; we had to dance once with all of them, for politeness reason. Some teacher got awards. Mongolians are very much into those honours, as teachers cannot make ends meat with their salary. For everything you get a certificate or an award in the form of a pin. They wear those pins at every event they can. Swenja got one as “children ambassador”! And the GI gave a new huge poster to the school where there is written on that the school is a PASCH School and cooperates with the GI. Later on all different departments from the school had to present something. Lots of them danced different dances from traditional, to standard, to modern. There was a choir of the teacher from the elementary school and more… At around 9:30pm Beree, Swenja and me decided to go, said goodbye to the head of the school, to Ankhaa and went home. Concluison: Nice to have seen it once and they are very cute. The girls are very nice and heart-warming to each other even though it seemed a bit contrived, as I know that in school there is sometimes a bit of a chicken fight, as usually in schools, companies and so on and so forth.
#pupilstaughtus5thoctober
At the 5th of October some kids in school had to take over the part as a teacher! I had actually just 2 lessons, but decided with Jessy to come back for the last lesson after our Mongolian course. It was lovely how the pupils explained the grammar, tried very hard, was more outgoing than the other days and even the rest of the class participated actively! The kids showed up very nicely dressed-up with suit or in a dress. Awesome!
