By Andrew Aikman | English teacher, Kitezh
We’ve come a long way, with your help. October 2013 was the start - cutting the turf, we had no idea if we would ever have the funds to build our dream!
By the spring of 2014, we had foundations and hope!
By the summer we had optimism, but no roof. Through the generous donations of our supporters, on 1st September of last year, 2015, IT HAPPENED! The school opened and the first classes began.
Let me tell you in the words of one of our senior students what this feels like.
“Now we have moved into it, I really like our new education centre. It`s comfortable to have several of our classes in one building. We used to have to run between houses to get to classes and sometimes it took the whole break just to do that. Now we have enough time to do some useful or just interesting things. In the hall we have ping-pong tables; it`s really cool because now we can play ping-pong during the break.
Lessons in classrooms are better because there is nothing except the view out of the window to distract your attention. The best classrooms are literature and Russian language. But the whole building is already beautiful, especially at night. When the lights are on in the centre it looks like a spaceship.
When it was being built it was something unbelievable. Even the foundation seamed unreal. I remember how we stood on it and couldn’t imagine how the rooms would be arranged. Now the dream of the centre is becoming a reality with one quarter already completed. I hope that it’ll all be completed sometime soon, and there will be a theatre and a hall for sport and maybe even a swimming pool.
I’m in my last year at Kitezh school so it’ll be cool if someday I come back and see it completed with new pupils and new opportunities. I think I’ll be quite envious.” [Svetoslav, 17 years old]
Times are hard as we all know; we have built the foundations again, and with your help, we can build the next quarter - classrooms for all, for English and chemistry, classrooms for the primary school; no more wrapping up against the snow to run from Geography to Maths. Thank you for helping us put the bricks on the foundations, to make Svetoslav’s hope come true.
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By Andrew Aikman | English Teacher and Volunteers Coordinator Kitezh
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