Hello, dear future IATEFL Summer School participant!

Yup, sure you will come next time! If you haven’t been there before, ask those who came this June-July, for instance – at least some of them came after having read last year SS participants’ memoirs.

Another reason of last year advertising campaign success - the huge number of applicants for SS this year. Have you read the excuses for those not accepted? But don’t you cry, if your application failed! Keep trying next time, I am going to ask some old IATEFLers - like me – to let other people go! Can not guarantee you anything though…

Well, so, what is the reason of success? People – one, place – two: that is all!
People:
- remember the names of our trainers (Sasha and Co)? This year their younger colleagues from L’viv and Kyiv joined – Nataliya Nayavko and Olena Kuzmenko.
- know the beauty of Ukrainian young ladies? Next time we should organize the beauty contest, I suppose. There were even some very elegant Ukrainian gentlemen! Too few for Mr-contest though…
Place:
Ever been to Verkhovyna? Read “My heart in the highlands” to feel it a bit.

What else?
1)The contents and spirit of the seminars – come and see them in our working places. As for me, for example, I learnt how to attract more people to my classes: my recipe - be less faultfinding and more self-critical.
2) British Council and IATEFL “nights” – very wise promotion. The result - now I am happy to have more IATEFL-brothers and sisters, sharing my love to British Council.
3) Out-of-schedule activities – museums (do you know about the existence of the “Shadows of forgotten ancestors” film museum, by the way?), hiking tours, kolybas.

To cut a long story short, let me use one of my trainer’s activities and try to make a portrait of the SS-2011 participant (trainers included):

I like the colour bright green (green, because young, bright - see 2 meanings of the word)
My favourite time of the day – any, if spent in a team
When I was at school, I was looking for summer holidays
I enjoy travelling, seeing (making) old (new) friends, sunny, but mild weather (Carpathian one, for instance)
I particularly dislike house-keeping
The kind of music I like best – the music of nature
I sometimes worry about my family
My biggest fear – loneliness
My ambition – to be Mr (Ms) Wanted by Everybody (except militia, of course)
I like people with a good sense of humour
People like me, because I am their buddy.

Dear participants and trainers, my sincere apologies, if you do not agree with the portrait: I was always bad at painting…

Join IATEFL Ukraine and stay with us and we’ll inform you about the future events!

See you next summer (or earlier?),
Artyom Teodorovich I