ILEP ALUMNI

As an ILEP ALUMNI you can ask for:

* Small Grants - till $5000, doing a project and aplying for it, the deadline was July,1st and in August we'll have the answer... I'm applying for it and my project was about our PROFESSIONAL MODULE in UAH;

* Host a US Teacher, deadline will be August,2nd...Next year I'll apply!

THE CERTIFICATES...

...Good lunch, people from the US department of State, IREX,

fellows and Universities' staff...

OUR CERTIFICATES OF CONCLUSION...

Now we're ILEP alumni, a new step in our lives!!!

Thanks for everything...

Cultural Presentations in DC

Senegal, India, South Africa, Bangladesh, Morocco, Indonesia, Philippines, Brazil... We had beautiful cultural presentations - May,18th and after these presentations we enjoyed a good dance!!!

The demos in Washington DC...

UAH did a great job! The 16 fellows prepared a GREAT MODULE. The module has 6 sessions and we decided for: Lesson Planning using Backward Design and Authentic Assessment to our DEMONSTRATION in Washington...

CONGRATULATIONS!

Farewell dinner (I don't want to say good bye!)

Wonderful, it's the word to describe this party!!! Lots of emotion, families, staff, faculty, partner teachers that were involved in ILEP. We received our certificates, we sang, we had some speeches...the dinner was delicious!!!

PROMENADE (Prom) in our American schools...

In USA we had the opportunity to go to a PROM, it's a party for the 11th and mainly the 12th grade students...

They dress up and dance a lot... The king

and the queen are chosen and they have lots of fun...

Columbia High School

New Century

Technology High School

...updating the blog!

The last weeks in our program were very, very, very busy and I didn't have time enough to write in this blog... Now I'm in Brazil (with all my luggage) and I'll try to remember some important "stuff"to tell you!!!

FIRE!!! FIRE ALARM...

This week we were suddlenly woke up with a voice that said: PLEASE, ALL RESIDENTS, CAN I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? EVACUATE THE BUILDING, EVACUATE THE BUILDING...The event happened twice, the first time was Wednesday, 21st of April and the second time was Tuesday, 27th...
Of course everybody evacuated the building... And I was worried, because I didn't take anything, but the glasses!!! Where were my passport, my notebook, my "shopping"? It was cold outside, and I was wearing shorts and tee...OMG! Next time the voice could say: DON'T FORGET YOUR PASSPORT AND BRING A PULLOVER!
Fortunatelly, after a careful inspection by the police and the firemen... nothing bad happened, just our precious sleep was broken!!!
Well, let's try to sleep without any fire alarm...
GOOD NIGHT, because tomorrow we have another day of INTERNSHIP, and we must be strong and have a good rest!!!

Sachi and his flowers...

I♥tulips

SPRING SEASON IS VERY IMPORTANT TO OUR BIOLOGIST SABYASACHI MAJUMDAR FROM INDIA...

In 2 days (last weekend) he took "only" 1056 pictures, and most of them are flowers... Small ,medium, big, white, red, yellow, purple, pink... all sort of flowers, here in UAH, in Burritt, Bothanical Garden, everywhere... I'll try to show all the emotion that he got these days!!! Enjoy the flowers...

Country Music... in HUNTSVILLE/ALABAMA

People like very much country music. We had the opportunity to see two different styles of country music...

1st - A band playing in a dance-bar (Hog Wild)

2nd - Traditional country music in Burritt on the mountain

Burritt on the Mountain Museum

On April 10, Burrit Museum celebrated Spring Farm Days, and we had the opportunity to watch demonstrations of antique farm machinery, observe tractors, farm tools, people playing traditional musical instruments, there were some animals and a good event was to watch the process that took wool from sheep to shawl.

The afternoon was sunny and beautiful!!! We could enjoy and walk around the place...

2/3 of our program is done!!!

We'll have just 1/3 of our ILEP program and it'll be time to come back to our countries.

I think that now is the moment to ask ourselves some important questions:

1. Has the program been good, important for my professional and personal life?

2. Do I keep my goals or did I forget part of them?

3. Am I a good fellow, do I represent my country with dignity?

4. Have I been doing my best and enjoying?

Please, don't answer me, just reflect...

SUNRISE MASS - Jesus Christ is risen today!!!

EASTER...

BE HAPPY!!!

JESUS CHRIST IS RISEN TODAY... ALLELUIA

Rainy day...

This week was very beautiful, warm and sunny, we could wear shorts/bermudas, shirts and T-shirts without sleeves, we went for long walks, some exercises, but today - SATURDAY, it is raining, and for me it's very sad, sometimes depressive. I know that rain is necessary, but the feeling is loneless, even when we have friends.

I remember the death of Jesus, and I know that LENT is finishing, and we need to be better, because tomorrow is EASTER, we need to be happy, because Jesus Christ will have a new life!!!

POTLUCK

Saturday, 27th we had a potluck, most of the fellows wore their traditional clothes, very interesting!!!

Each country or continent was supposed to bring some meal, a typical dish...

Guess what we had from Brazil and Ecuador???

FEIJOADA... A delicious one!

Most of the frienship families were there and some prepared delicious American dishes.

I hope everybody enjoyed the party...

SWEET HOME ALABAMA...

Of course our trip to NY was very good, and I think it is a dream that most of the people in the world have: GO TO NY, however I'm very happy to come back "home" - SWEET HOME ALABAMA, 2 months to go definitely to our countries!!! Let's enjoy all the moments and do all our best!

Talking about NY - Chapter V

Our trip is almost in the end, Hendri went to Boston, (Harward University) and the others were divided in specific interests...
I went to the YANKEE STANDIUM, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, and IPANEMA BRAZILIAN RESTAURANT... It was amazing!!!

We met our brazilian friends (Maura ana Valeria) from Clemson University... and the party was done!!!

Here we are, Valeria, Medarka, Alex, Florentino, Adriana and Maura!!!
I almost cried, too much emotion... PALPITATION Brazilian Food... with good friends!!!

After this... TIMES SQUARE!

Talking about NY - Chapter IV

Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Brooklin Bridge, Empire State Building, Times Square... It was a long Tuesday, 16th

A long and beutiful day, enjoying the most important touristic places downtown NY...

Talking about NY - Chapter III

Monday, 15th - Statue of Liberty!!! BEAUTIFUL PLACE, it is in a island and we went there by boat... It's very interesting when you can see the Statue very, very near you... Second, we went to Chinatown (this is the point that we began to buy many,many, many things) and Little Italy, and after we went to the WTC (World Trade Center), that they are re-building the place!!!

We went to 9/11 memorial...
and more shopping at century 21!!!

Talking about NY - Chapter II

HSV - Airport (before the flight cancelled)

Well, we arrived in NY Sunday at 12h pm and it was raining, but there was not storm...

So, we decided to walk n the hostel to see what we could do...

Hendri had some ideas... so...

We began in the Museum of the city of New York, Central Park and after we decided to go by subway (metro) to other places...

We bought a week unlimited card (U$ 27) and our trip by subway was nice, a map in a hand and some places to visit...

Talking about NY - Chapter I

Our trip to NY began in a very different way, and probably it was not the most comfortable one!!!

We were supposed to travel at 3h40' pm Saturday, 13 th, but all flights were cancelled during the afternoon and evening (a terrible storm in NY)... So, What could we do???

SLEEP IN THE AIRPORT!!!

Florentino, Hendri, Maureen, Chan, Novi and me in Atlanta's Airport waiting for the next flight (Sunday, 7h40' am)...

Fortunatelly, Sunday we could go and enjoy our trip...