My name is Ainagul. I am 16 years old. I study in “ American School”. I go there at half past two with my friends Munzura, Nurkyz and Edelveis. My lesson finish at twenty minute to six. We have learnt Present Simple and  Present Continious.

Ainagul

Last weekend Alpine Fund crew organized its next trip to the dacha. Our dacha is located at the feet of the beautiful Gorge Ala Archa, where president’s resident is situated and our resident is too.

 Actually Alpine Fund is the place where amazing happens. So the dacha is our important place where we meet very important guests. This time we served a big delegation with the leading council. They were from the world where everyone lived before but visa problem enforced us to leave for boring, intensive, adultstan. The ministers of childrenstan were very hyper active, outgoing, ambitious and just good persons.

When we played, ate together and just spoke to them, they had said that when they come to dacha they feel nice and confidence that they are taken care and supported at least for two days. At the dacha, I noticed that children explode their emotions which is very good for them to get all the pains (anger, offense, hurt) out of their hearts.  Scientists say that it is good sometimes to let emotions out that had been accumulating for a long time. After that everyone feels relaxed and relieved.

 So we interns, volunteers just try to listen to them and take them as they are to let them cool down and feel that life is not that hard and boring. When we were going to take off, they wanted to stay there for a couple of days. Because of there was no space for me and Freider, we had to hitchhike. And Mercedes Avangard with the diplomatic number picked us up.   Ulan    

Teaching English at CPC Osh

 After the rain that had been pouring to Bishkek like from buckets for more than two weeks, the sun took the rain’s place demanding to dominate for entire summer. But there is no reason for us (hard working volunteers and hard helping interns) to put off any class.

 So today we had our next English class. Scorching Sun heats it up everything in here.Inside the building was really hot like in Russian dry-banya. So this is why we decided to teach them outside under the tree that served us as sort of an umbrella.

 In order to express our desire for peace, against war and cruelty and friendship between all nations we sang the well known, peaceful song “Солнечный Круг”. First in Russian and English and then in Kyrgyz This song advices us to live doing good things and with the best intentions.  

Пусть всегда будет солнце,
Пусть всегда будет небо,
Пусть всегда будет мама,
Пусть всегда буду я!

May there always be sunshine,
May there always be blue skies,
May there always be my mama,
May there always be me!  

Дайырма болсун кун нуру,
Дайырма болсун асман,
Дайырма болсун апам,
Дайырма болоюн мен!

 …Verses can be found online 

 Ulan and Frieder

Now I am already in my 3 year of my college and I had my practicum at school. at first I was scared to go and teach. I thought it would be difficult to keep discipline  in the class because the kids are from rich families and they would be imputent. One  day i came to xchool and they had’t teacher for one lesson and they asked me, if i could, so it was spantanious. It wasn’t a bad  as I thought it would be. The class was 9-10 years old kids and they were cute and smart. The biggest problem was that they could’t read my had-writting.  But overall, it was good exerience!

Graduates party at Belovodski Orphanage 

Located in a quiet and serene village outside of Bishkek you will find the Belovodski Orphanage.  Children from the age of one until the age of six or seven grow there up, learn how to walk, start to speak there first full sentences, discover their environment with all five senses.

Either the children are halforphans, orphans or there parents can not take care of them because of many social and private reasons. Energetic, fond of children and experienced educators do all there best with a mixture of sovietic and modern education principles to convey all the skills, tools and a lot of love for their future live to the children .

Today, the 27th of May was a big day for the oldest ones. It was time to say goodbye the Belovodski Orphanage. In autumn they will be send to several other orphanage and start to attend school. For this special day they prepared an amazing show and showed the educators and guest what they learnt. We had the honour to listen both to old sovietic children songs and to modern american breakdance music. We heard poems and had the pleasure to be witnesses of a small play.

After a long enduring clapping and a serious and touching speech of the director the party drew to a close and we are looking forward to see most of the graduates in our other orphanage again, take them to the mountains and teach them English!

Frieder

Saving lives! First aid course

Yesterday we had an extraordinary meeting. Clara, the mother of our beloved volunteer Gaetan taught us the most important things about FIRST AID.

We learnt about the CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) and the Recovery Position as well we practised both of them on eath other.

After this informative, interesting and funny lecture about First Aid we feel confident to handle an accident until a doctor arrives.

Let’s hope that we never need it and  thanks a lot to Clara!

Frieder 

Hi everyoneThe special agent AFinTern 007 informs you that after two months of hard work and diligence, the main project in English was done. 19^th of May was the day to present it. And I am in hurry to tell you that I did it excellently. The day before, I rolled in at the office, for the special purpose of doing review of the project. I had been working on that for 4 hours before I bounced out of there. I didn’t cram all night like other guys do; I just went to bed to get a good sleep. In the morning when I was going to university, I was not scared but confident. Because I was acting intentionally. When I got my turn, I came in the auditorium confidently, and did it the way that I like (non-stop but comprehensibly). After having done it, feeling relieved as if big stone was taken off me. You know, I don’t actually mean to be praising myself but the teacher remained with open mouth. I think she was surprised by me because I did it well even if I don’t look snazzy and handsome. I don’t consider myself Einstein, haircut is OK. (Joke)All right guys, I am out like a fat kid in dodge ball. All the best Ulan.     

Once upon a time (last weekend), 5 princesses and 3 princes from Voenno-Antonovka (a castle orphanage near Bishkek), and their loyal knights from the order of the Alpine Fund gathered for a quest to conquer the dark lands of Ala Archa. They gathered all their courage, a lot of potatoes and rice, some red peppers and 2 footballs, and rode for the gates of Ala Archa. There they organized, fortified their defenses, prepared to take care of their wounded and eat magic Kuba Plov to gather strength. The following day, they set out to conquer peak Alpine Fund, the highest and roughest part that the Kyrgyz mountain chains have to offer. It took them many hours and a hard fight against fatigue, the scorching sun and soon they ran out of water. Luckily, they had already explored the enemy territory during a second mission under the cover of darkness the night before. At last they reach the top and rejoiced. The painters made heroic pictures of their victory, and they returned to their outpost to celebrate their victory and boast their war stories. When the time to leave came, they packed up their camp, looked for a donkey and returned to their homeland of Bishkek. The story of their victory will be remembered and told from generation to generation. They lived happily ever after… until they will be called upon again to conquer the next peak in the Kyrgyz highland… in about two weeks from now.

The End

By Gaetan and Frieder