Request for collaboration with High School Russian teachers

[Lindsay Mathieson]

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I am a Peace Corps volunteer currently living and working in the Russian
Far East (a few hundred kilometers outside Vladivostok).  As an English
language teacher, I constantly receive requests from my students to find
them pen pals.  So far, I've been very unsuccessful as the American students
we've been in touch with do not seem to have much interest in corresponding
with students whose English is not at their level.

For that reason, I was wondering if an American student of Russian might
be more interested.  Letters could be written in a combination of Russian
and English for the benefit of both participants.  If this sounds like
something you'd like to build into next year's curriculum, please let me know.
However, if you have any students (approximately aged 12-17) who'd be
interested in starting to write over the summer, you can have them email me
or write me directly for more information (they can also write letters to
Russian students care of my address which I will then distribute).

There are over a hundred Peace Corps TEFL volunteers here in Russia (West
and East) and I know all of them would be interested in finding more
correspondents for their students, so the more participation the better!

If you have any questions or would be interested in getting involved,
please feel free to contact me at:

l.mathieson at usa.net OR

Russia
692656
Primorskiy Krai
Mikhailovskiy Region
Novoshakhtinskiy, P.O. Box 23
Lindsay Mathieson
(If mailing, please translate into Cyrillic for better results).

Thanks so much for your help!
Lindsay Mathieson

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