Feeling Better

The day started out early as we fought the traffic to get to the Pedalogical University. This is the school where students learn to be teachers and Dimitri who I met last Saturday was my guide. The first stop was the museum and then a tour of some classrooms and offices. The faulty in each department share one office - it's not a very big space and it holds many desks.

From there we went to the Higher Education School of Economics. I met professors of psychology and we were invited to attend a session of their faculty-student conference. A main focus was "The Psychological Aspects of Communication". One professor is giving me a presentation in English which describes a computer system they built to teach French. Mark, I told him of your study skills system and he gave me his email address.



We then drove to the Center of Gifted Children. It is a boarding school of 345 students from the region that are in the 10th and 11th grade. In ten years they have had over a thousand graduates and every one has gone onto higher education. The students can study in-depth in 15 different areas and only fifty percent of them live close enough to go home on weekends. We sat in on two classes and got a tour of the classrooms, dorms and medical facilities for the students (they are quite extensive). I always get the question, "What do you like the best?" That is a very difficult question to answer.