Hello,
Here is a brief story of a change of the concept of the School – after 2 months of living in the villages of Zakamensky district of Buryatia republic of Russia and 1 month of teaching, teaching, teaching at the local schools.
As the 2nd Summer School in Buryatia has finished, I was as usually desperate. “No other School”, – say I to myself at the very last day of the School each year ))). And then I continue doing it.
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Hello, friends, 
I am currently in Yengorboy, staying here till the end of September to teach voluntary English and journalism as facultative at the village school and I would like you to spread the below info, either from mouth to mouth or feel free to re-post it or forward to friends the below text as it is, and thank you very much in advance:
Hi to everyone!
My name is Ayuna, I am currently in Yengorboy village of Buryatia and I would like to invite all those who happen to travel through Buryatia with free schedule and no plan to come to experience living in Yengorboy and volunteer here as a teacher of … what you know and what you can. :)
Hi to everyone who was longly anticipating news from Buryatia Summer School’ 2010!
Thiru and Kim left on 27th, even earlier than the rest, to head back to their motherland Malaysia after 6 years studying in Moscow and living in Russia. Pawel is back to Netherlands for his new job. Sakine is continuing her travels to Mongolia and China, and Lena was going to visit her grandmother in the town near Irkutsk. I am currently in Yengorboy, staying here after everyone left on 29th and having some rest after the School.
I will be posting some stories from the School in the nearest future as we had no time at all during the School. Second reason is that we had more or less regular access to internet only here
in Yengorboy. Here is one computer with Internet – nothing has changed. It is slow but still, and it bans automatically (because it is school computer for the school usage) Facebook, Youtube, even Google translator and many other websites )))
Meanwhile, please, watch some videos (as a starter) from beautiful Yengorboy which is all surrounded by green mountains and some few photos from its daily life.
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Hi to all those who were helping much during the year since the Year 2009 and the first ever Volunteer School in Buryatia: all those who help at the place – administration of the village Mikhaylovka, school directors, host families (!), kids!! Thank You to all those who helped me and supported me (and still help and still support) in Moscow – Alexey, Zorik, Catherine, Irina, Natalya and all many more my friends around the world – THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!!
We are now – my little team of free willing Volunteers – sitting in a 
Moscow cafe near this beautiful old Russian orthodox church and celebrating the beginning of the Buryatia Summer School 2010!
Me and Sakine met already in Berlin, a little before the School, and arrived to Moscow together this afternoon and tomorrow we fly to Irkutsk where we meet with Pawel who will fly there tonight after the football match from Vladivostok,
with Thiru and Kim who are at the moment enjoying the beauty of Olkhon island and Elena who is at the moment in Berlin doing an eco project will join us already in Mikhaylovka a little bit later.
We all – both who fly to Irkutsk and those who stay in Moscow, in Berlin a.o. – are very excited about the beginning of the School 2010!
Viel Glueck unв Erfolg zu uns, much luck and success to us (you are welcome to add your wish in your own language) and keep an eye on our new feature on the website – the BLOG of the BURYATIA SUMMER SCHOOL!!!
P.S. MAX, THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH FOR THE GIFTS AND DONATION TO THE SCHOOL (the story will be coming in the following posts). Keep an eye! :)
POSTCARDS FROM BERLIN
Here on this photo you see me and my Berliner Friend Max. Last time we met in Berlin on … let me think, I think, it was 9th of July 2010. We saw each other shortly one evening 2 days before I left Berlin. I was very excited as the School was going to begin in 3 days.
Right after Berlin and one night in Moscow me and Sakine, Volunteer of 2010, found each other in Irkutsk where we met Kim, Thiru and Pavel. Lena at this time was in Germany, not far from the place where Sakine was born and grew up :) What a chain of coincidences :) !
Me and Max were exchanging news. Max has started up own business project www.doktor-berlin.ru (организация лечения и курортного отдыха в Германии) which was going pretty well. I was telling my latest news :), telling about Moscow orphanage educational project http://groups.google.com/group/Pereslavl-volunteering and telling about the Buryatia Summer School, this year volunteers, classes and plans.
Me and Max got to know each other before the 1st Summer School has started and saw each other again in Berlin after the 1st School has finished last summer. So Max is one of the people who are aware of the project from the very first days of its existence. Then there, sitting in a Berliner café, drinking Bionade, Max told me that he was thinking himself to participate in this year School. To say honestly I was surprised :)
Unfortunately Max had to work a lot and he asked: “So maybe I could contribute to buy some gifts to the kids? You say it was so hard to engage them last year and you had so few attendants. So may be if they would know that they get some prize in the end they would be more motivated? Let’s think what can we buy here, something which will not occupy much space in your luggage and something useful and interesting for the kids.”
Next day during the lunch break we met at the Potsdamer Platz and went shopping. This ended up buying 60 postcards with Berlin views, 15 caps with ‘Deutschland’ logo (which is very useful here – Buryatia is a very sunny region), and few magnets for our hosts in different cities and those who help our project along the way.
The postcards found different usage during the School: Sakine has used few for the German language classes (here you see different groups of kids in Mikhaylovka making puzzle of it and having after a story from Sakine about the Berlin Wall or city of Berlin or German history), then together with Yengorboy kids she has made a poster about Berlin and German language, but mostly it was spread as a lottery lot and gift at the last days of the School in Mikhaylovka and Yengorboy to all those kids who have participated the School this summer.
In both villages during the lottery it was announced that there’s my mysterious ‘friend Max from Berlin’ who has made these gifts for the School. Thank You very much, Max! ))
P.S. Herewith I would like also to thank Kollegiaten of www.Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg.de of this year for the collective 10,78 Euros contribution which was made in Berlin during the farewell party at Olympia Jugendstaette )))) Big Thanks to all those who have given their ‘1 Euro’ contribution, it has partly covered our expenses for the Bueromaterial/ stationery.
P.P.S. To all those who would like to contribute (in case you can’t participate personally) – currently we have problems with the PayPal donate button, it’s not eligible for Russian accounts. We are working on solving this, and if you have any tips, it would be very much appreciated!