#grigorevieru

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“El hombre enloquecería de sueños si las flores brillaran en el cielo y no a sus pies” @beatrizpendas #GrigoreVieru #Picosdeeuropa #CanaldeTrea #RefugioVegadeArio y #muchomas https://www.instagram.com/p/BzWEjwrFdma/?igshid=1exa039kmkh25

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Day 94: Poetry

One day, I was trying hard to explain how a computer lab is not only useful for computer classes, that it can be used in all classes and provides a wealth of benefits that the teachers - having not had or used one before - could understandably currently not imagine. I hit upon a sincere parallel that involved something often considered ubiquitous in Moldova: Poetry.

I have a degree in literature. In fact, my concentrations while studying for my BA in English literature were linguistics and poetry. And, yet, I could not imagine the usefulness nor benefits of poetry in a variety of subjects because I hadn’t yet experienced it. By describing that, my conversation partner seemed shocked that something so commonplace, so useful in every way, was not regularly employed by every teacher to help their students learn.

Poems are learned in both our cultures at an early age (think: nursery rhymes). But, after kindergarten, I rarely heard them in daily life. I knew about beat poets, I knew about poetry slams, I appreciate rap. But I didn’t experience poetry in subjects like science or civics or Health Education. I didn’t hear them recited regularly and only occasionally saw poets lauded publicly. I remember a whole classroom of literature students groaning at the thought of having to memorize one poem of our choice as an assignment.

Yes, poetry was around, but not as profoundly ingrained into my daily life as I’ve experienced it here.

I’ve been at many a celebratory meal where adults broke into poems. I felt most welcomed and seen the times I recited one myself. I’ve come to have a new appreciation of poetry as a communication tool and a place of self-expression, as a means of understanding culture and striving to change it. I am grateful for that education, for being introduced to a new tool as a person and an educator.

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[lehmanrl]

We're continuing to study pollution and how it hurts health in #HealthEducation this week. It was nice to kick off an activity about personal actions related to reducing pollution with a quote from the beloved poet #GrigoreVieru. Basically, he says that since we have only one sun and one air among us, why are some so committed to polluting that and thus ourselves. #BorisDînga #EnvironmentalHealth (at Liceul Teoretic " Boris Dânga " Criuleni)

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[lehmanrl]

Thinking of my #Romanian language teachers from summer and from my new town since I finally seem to have memorized my first longer poem: In Your Language by Grigore Vieru. My pronunciation is still spotty, but the words are there! I'm excited for more language training this weekend through #PeaceCorpsMoldova! #InLimbaTa #GrigoreVieru #Poetry

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