Leigh in Azerbaijan

I don’t have photos yet but Michael and I with Natasha have put up our teaching time-line and teaching process display for the Exhibition. We’ve also included a display on the Student Profile, which is jargon for the characteristics that we believe students should have in the PYP. Monday we get to finish the display with mobiles.

The large rental display boards arrived. Sadly our order for purchasing a new set from last December was vetoed and then another order was also cancelled this year, so they had to hire some instead. Crazy logic.

Our display must be good as one student was overheard to say, “The teacher display is seriously awesome!”

We have a holiday today. The ex-Soviet realm is celebrating Victory Day. This is from Wikipedia:

Victory Day marks the end of World War II in Europe, specifically the capitulation of NaziAllies (the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, the United States and other principal Allied nations) on May 8, 1945. It is celebrated in the successor states to the Soviet Union on May 9, because when the German Instrument of Surrender actually entered into force (May 8, 1945 at 23:01 CET), it was already May 9 in the USSR and Eastern Europe.

Democracy is a funny thing here. The minister for internal affairs here reckons that democracy doesn’t allow groups to meet of their own free will. He wears a military uniform. You can make your own conclusions.