Veles, a new city adventure!

The park with my school in the background 

After much anticipation, I finally got my sight placement for the next 10 weeks. On Friday morning September 19th, we were walked into the meeting room to find chairs with our names posted on them. After going through the basic morning agenda, we were told to look under our chair and there would be the name of our placement. I opened mine and was shocked to see Veles or велес in Macedonia. Our group will be split up in 4 different towns ranging from a small village to a big city. Veles is the largest of the 4 placement sites and I was beyond excited to hear that there are plenty of markets with fresh fruits and veggies.

Just after finding out my site placement! 

My official first week in PST (Pre Service Training) has been exhausting to a new family, new city and classes. I have language classes for 4.5 hours each day and then some afternoons consist of information sessions such as TEFL, safety and security and medical. Learning a new language is hard enough but having a completely new alphabet with new sounds brings many challenges. Slowly I am learning the language and my host family is helping with that!

Here are some photos of the city of Veles where there are parks, Orthodox churches, many stray dogs and plenty of markets and stores. In my next post I will talk about my new host family!

Right outside my flat is this amazing artwork 

The park right near my school 

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