MADE AID!!!

[Maryna Vinarska]

Hi everybody!

I am looking for those risk-takers who decided to make
it in Germany. Sure, if there are any survivors... I
will be very surprised if there are any, to tell the
truth... But may be there is at least a couple...

In other words, those who got their education not in
Germany but managed to jump over all the barriers here
and what is more important  -  managed to go through
this German Referendariat, please get in touch with
me. I need your advice. I NEED YOUR HELP! Sure, I mean
the Slavic, sure, those teaching Russian and English
here. Actually, if there are some Germans on the list
having nothing against the fact that foreigners
started getting the Beamtestatus (state employee) in
Germany, I will appreciate your help as well.

In short: I managed to survive the first half a year
of Referendariat. My losses are very big. I LOST MY
SENSE OF HUMOR! Although I can't say that I need it
very much here....

I will probably need independent observers for my
classes (Russian and English) starting from October.
Or they will kick me out. The only thing they
incriminate me is that I am practicing a
teacher-centered teaching. It is not so, but I can't
prove anything. Having two university diplomas from
the Ukraine and an MA from SUNY, I did not get the so
called BDU (opportunity to teach some classes
independently). And if they accuse me of the same in
the next half a year, my Referendariat is over.

Those having experience in teaching Russian to
native-speakers (I mean Russian immigrants), tell me
what kind of stuff you teach in your countries. In the
school I am in, there are about 200 Russian native
speakers between 19 and 30 doing their Abitur. This is
actually why my colleagues want to kick me out.I
turned out to be the only contact between these
students and the outer world... There is no any
curriculum. The combination of topics, my two
extremely friendly German colleagues teach
(actually,they are three now; they took the third one
starting from September, and sure, she is German too),
seems to be very strange, to tell the truth... It is
"integration (meaning of immigrants) - fairy tales -
war"... I don't even know how to comment on this...
For me it turned out to be very symbolic... And as to
fairy tales, it is "Gusi-lebedi", "Masha i tri
medvedia" spiced up with a little bit of Propp. I am
not kidding and it is not funny at all.

So... MADE AID! I don't feel like giving up... Why
should I? I sing in my mind "Nikogda, nikogda
kommunary ne budut rabami" as one of my friends
advised... and hope that I will survive... But it is
really very very hard...

If there is anybody from Humboldt University in Berlin
on the list, I need to talk to you as well. I know
that you deal with this problem (it is really a
problem, by the way...)  -  Russian for native
speakers in Germany.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Maryna Vinarska,
Germany, NRW







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