Such excitement! It was McDonald’s Day! An opportunity to go and gather and chill and chat over McDonald’s for lunch. The scene could not have been more ordinary yet for our Ukrainian friends this is wonderful and super exciting! So so happy for them to have this time.
We all needed a good walk after that! And it was lovely to stretch our legs and walk across Lublin to Jarmark Lubelski, which is a crafting/activity type centre. The children had a great afternoon with organised activities, games, pizza making and a wonderful drum workshop. The staff were fabulous, really engaging and the children loved their second lunch!
During this time, we loved talking to the English teachers about the peculiarities of the English language. She was saying the children adore using superlatives, currently ‘awesome’ and ‘gorgeous’ and we were saying how much we love using the words ‘amazing’ and ‘delicious’ She said that English is so rich in words and often it will just translate back to the same word in Ukrainian. We were also telling her that by inserting the word absolute in front of any noun made it an insult eg You absolute prawn! She was loving it. Most of their opportunity to listen to English spoken by native speakers comes through online platforms like YouTube which just isn’t the same as people on front of you. Even if that is us!!
Such a fantastic afternoon! And the fun didn’t stop here. We grabbed a spot on the Ukrainian children’s coach to travel to Lumina Park
It was dark by the time we arrived at the beautiful Botanical gardens in Lublin to see their annual festive lights display. It was based largely around a theme of Alice in Wonderland this year and the displays were stunning! The children loved the luxuriant lights, stopping to take photos of each singular light it seemed. They were so keen to share with their families back home. A gorgeous way to spend an evening.
Then back on the coach and back to the hotel. It had been a busy day and unsurprisingly a lot of the children fell asleep.
We did too!