First-year students at the WOA center.

On 18 of September more than 50 first -year students from Sumy State University visited WOA center to learn more about its activities and resources. They learnt about the books, magazines, movies, kindles and iPads, which they can find in WOA center, eLibraryUSA, about different clubs and programs held here. They also learnt about exchange educational programs. Many of them expressed a wish to come here on their own.

Undergraduate Study in the USA

On 15 of September Ukrainian alumni, Kyryl, gave a presentation “Undergraduate Study in the USA”. Our patrons, secondary school students, learnt about the structure of American education, types of Higher education institutions, requirements to students and documents. He shared his study and students life experience with our patrons. At the end of this interesting and very informative meeting, he answered numerous patrons’ questions on the topic.

Amazon Kindle

Dear friends, Sumy WOA Center received 4 E-book Readers “Amazon Kindle”. Now you have an opportunity to read books in our center in E-format. For the reading are available speeches and books of American politicians and writers. Among them are Barack Obama, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Henry Melville and others. Everybody is welcomed to come and read!

Conversation Circle

In June there were two meetings of the Conversation Circle. The topic of the first meeting held June 6th was “Summer Holidays”. People discussed their plans for the summer vacations. Members of the circle also discussed creating of a Conversation Circle blog. The second meeting was held June 20th and was totally devoted to the playing of the table games. It was also a wonderful way to meet others and improved their English-language skills! We had a lot of fun, a lot of laughs.

High school students at the WOA center

On 6 of June we met the high school students from school №10. Summer is the time of vacations and holidays and our center becomes a favorite place of spending free time. Our guests got acquainted with a collection of children's literature in English and they were fond of books which were published by the best publishers of America. They got to know about all the services which are available at the Center. The participants asked many questions concerning Window on America center.The conversation was very lively and positive.

Informative and entertaining meeting

On 5 of June pupils from school №17 visited our Window on America center for the first time. Our meeting was entertaining and informative for the children. Our guests got acquainted with up-to-date language study materials,also board games, our blogs and book trailers. Most of attention was attracted by Kindle and iPads. We invited our guests to come to us to learn, to play and have a good time.

English-Speaking Club

Welcome to English-Speaking Club. Last month we had a variety of topics discussed: 8.05 Marriage in our life 17.05 Father's Day It was the last time our PCV Arden held the club meeting.Two years ago we were glad to meet Arden and now we were saying good-bye. Arden held meetings of the club every Tuesday and she also organized English courses for beginners.We would like to say, we are very grateful to Arden for what she've done for us! Her job was great! We will miss her!