I-F Journal

This Journal records how I learned Ukrainian during my Fulbright year in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. I was teaching English, Linguistics and Modern American Literature at Vasyl Stefanyk Pre-Carpathian University from September 2006 through June 2007.

31 March 2007

Department staff office. The size of the average American classroom, this room serves as office space for 40+ teachers of English, who share these desks. The door in the background opens to a small office with several bookshelves of dictionaries, treasured references and books, cabinets, and ONE (1) computer shared by all the instructors and the two part-time 'laboranti' (office assistants). The room adjacent to this office contains a new Linguaphone computer lab with 16 stations which has been in development for months, but which at this writing is not fully operational.

The Department of English Language.
This office is located on the second floor in an 8-story building which houses classrooms, the Departments of Foreign Languages (French, German, Chinese) and the Departments of Foreign Literatures and Institute of Ukrainian Philology. Classes are held M-F 8:30- 4:00 in hour and half blocks with breaks at 10, 12 and 2. There is a large program for part-time and extra-mural students on various schedules who also attend late afternoon and weekends.