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.