As I was out in western Ukraine for a conference during (what was ultimately a sad display of) St. Patrick's Day, we made up for it this week with our Access English Program high school students:
We had a fun PowerPoint (with photos and videos!) on St. Paddy's traditions, customs, and festivities in Ireland, the United States, and all over the world...
We learned and then danced an Irish jig (which I may or may not have made up) to traditional Irish music...
I taught the students about Limericks (the Irish city AND the funny poems)...
...and they had a chance to write and present their own in English (some of them were really, really funny):
What a fun time, especially since it was everyone's first St. Paddy's Day ever (Ukraine definitely needs a day of celebratory green in their future)!
And then, a few days later, I headed to the little town of Shastya outside of Lugansk and did it all again with 40 more students! Double Paddy Parties! I love it!
Happy (belated) St. Patrick's Day, everyone!
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