Monday, 3 June 2013

SKYPING WITH THE STATES

As Tovia prepares to leave us, she has written a few words of gratitude to Ofelia Barreiro, our Director of Studies, for helping her to organise a wonderful skype session  shared  by  our   Year 11  students   and   Tovia´s classmates in the States.
We share Tovia´s enthusiasm, and hope this will be a long-lasting relationship.

Here is Tovia´s letter:

Hi Ophelia,

I just wanted to thank you for giving me the opportunity to share what I have been doing here for the past few months with my class in the States.

I am very happy to tell you that I think the skype session went very well- we skyped for over an hour! In the skype session, we used both English and Spanish to communicate- my classmates at GDS (my school in the States) asking questions in Spanish, while my classmates here responding to them in English (because my classmates in the U.S have very limited Spanish knowledge- only studying the language for two years). After the initial question and answer stage, my classmates here performed some of the dances that they will be performing at the end of the year showcase as well as a couple of poems that they have been working on- in English.

I have also received many emails from different administrators and teachers in my school, telling me how impressed they are with my class here, and how they would also love to skype sometime or become pen pals.

Both my classmates here and my classmates in the States are also going to exchange email addresses and facebook addresses- to keep in contact. I am very excited to see where this leads.

Thanks again for this wonderful opportunity and I hope both these amazing schools can keep in contact- even after I return to the states.

Sincerely
Tovia Rosner

Also in the next link you can see what is said about our school at GDS, Tovia´s school web:


By Cristina Cuenca.


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