The Window on America Center in Dnipro is designed to provide up-to date information on the United States.
The mission of our Center is to promote mutual understanding between the United States and Ukraine.
English Speaking club dedicated to International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. It was prepared by Svitlana Usenko and held by Svitlana Kolesnikova. The members of the meeting had learnt that In 1987, the UN General Assembly decided to observe 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking as an expression of its determination to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of drug abuse.
A lot of serious questions were discussed. In the end of the meeting we had a role-play What would you do If you knew your best friend is drug addict?
The topic of this English Speaking сlub was The Emancipation Day – Juneteenth (Texas).
In the beginning of the club the new member Oksana Kostiuchenko who lives in Canada told us about the life there, negative and positive sides of living there.
Yana Litvinova
Yana Litvinova who had just returned from Italy told about Milan, Venice.
Svitlana Usenko also told about Chicago and Washington and her trip to the USA in general.
Kolesnikova Svitlana:
Every member of English speaking club was surprised with a wonderful stories about Washington , Chicago, Ottawa, Milano, Venice. It was interesting to learn about American libraries, their work and organization, about Chicago public library witch budget is about $ 30 mln. Chicago successfully combines modern skyscrapers and green parks.
English Speaking club dedicated to the birthday of American violinist of Ukrainian origin Isaac Stern. The meeting was prepared by Svitlana Kolesnikova.
A new guest from the USA, California visited our Center. It was Josef Battilega who told about his liking for music, literature, theaters. Josef Battilega donated some books of his own to our Center and the members of the WOA have an opportunity to read them.
Usenko Svitlana:
I interesting formation inThe Columbia Encyclopedia: sixth edition/ edited by Pаul Lagasse. – 2000.– 3156 р. (Р.2715)
Isaac Stern (Ukrainian: Стерн Ісаак; July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was a Ukrainian-born violinvirtuoso. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.
Brought to the United States as an infant, Stern began piano lessons at the age of six and violin lessons at eight. He studied at the San Francisco Conservatory and made his debut at 11 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. After his New York debut in 1937 at Town Hall, Stern made extensive and brilliantly successful world tours. He is considered one of the leading contemporary virtuosos.
Mirgorodckya Sasha:
Meeting a new native speaker and investigate his idea of the things you already know is always interesting. It is the best way to learn English and to learn the USA versatility.
Josef Battilega from California
Savescul Vadym:
The topics of our conversations with Joseph were very diverse because our today’s guest happened to have very interesting and versatile personality. So they varied from music and literature to differences between American and Ukrainian tax legislations, real-estate prices in the U.S., Ukraine, and EU and even, current healthcare reform initiated by Barack Obama. Since Joseph’s scope of interests was very broad virtually everybody had something to talk about with him, including Greek tragedy and Sumerian mythology.
The guest of the meeting was a participant of АIESEC Daphne. She is French but she studies in Canada, so she told us about life in France and Canada, about her Study. Her story was accompanied with a slide-show.
Natalie Karmaz’:
At our last meeting we had unique opportunity to communicate with Daphne, Canadian student from AISEC. She lives in Quebec, Canada. Daphne has lived in Serbia (Belgrad), Russia (Moscow) for 1 year. She is going to stay for 2 months in Ukraine.
Svitlana Usenko, a participant of the program The Open World who visited in April 2010 Chicago and Washington held a virtual trip to the USA for the librarians of Dnipropetrovsk Regional Library. She reported about innovations in American libraries.
Participant of the program had an opportunity to visit local libraries, schools and businesses, learn from their experiences, share their own and get inspired with new ideas.
Among Chicago libraries the group visited Northwestern University Library, Indian Trails Public Library, Schaumburg District Library, Chicago Public Library, Palatine Public Library, Harper College Library and others.
Two exhibits were presented: Americans celebrate and If you want to study in the USA (to help everyone who wants to pass exams TOEFL/GME/GMAT and study in the USA).
The head of WOA Center Svitlana Usenko gave a presentation to the librarians, heads of departments of Dnipropetrovsk Regional Library about her trip to the USA, the cities she visited, the work of American libraries. It was a story about Public Library of Chicago, Harper college, Palatine city etc. Svitlana Usenko was the participant of the program Open World. She visited Washington and Chicago.
In April 2010 a group of six Ukrainian librarians came to Chicago to learn about American library and educational systems.
ICEA, the hosting organization, headed by Larisa Koval, president, had designed the program in which the delegates had an opportunity to visit local libraries, schools and businesses, learn from their experiences, share their own and get inspired with new ideas.
Among Chicago libraries the group visited Northwestern University Library, Indian Trails Public Library, Schaumburg District Library, Chicago Public Library, Palatine Public Library, Harper College Library and others.
The delegates also met with Jim Schwantz, mayor of the city Palatine, and Konstantin Kudryk at the General Consulate of Ukraine in Chicago.
At the end of the 10-day program, each delegate took home a certificate of graduation, “READ” poster with their photos on it from Indian Trails Public Library District (made only for celebrities) and, of course, tones of pictures, memories and new ideas. Among those ideas was creating a section of Ukrainian language literature at some of the American libraries, which is yet to be seen.
English Speaking Club dedicated to Socionics. It was prepared by Svitlana Kolesnikova. Socionics is a relatively young and dynamically developing branch of psychology which is based on Carl Jung's work on Psychological Types. According to Jung's theory of Psychological Types we are all different in fundamental ways. One's ability to process different information is limited by their particular type. These types are sixteen. In addition to 16 psychological types, there are 16 kinds of intertype relations based on the nature of information interchange between types. The members were tested and their sociotypes were defined.
English Speaking club dedicated to International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. It was prepared by Svitlana Usenko and held by Svitlana Kolesnikova. The members of the meeting had learnt that In 1987, the UN General Assembly decided to observe 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking as an expression of its determination to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of drug abuse.
Svitlana Usenko was the participant of the program Open World. She visited Washington and Chicago.
English Speaking Club dedicated to Socionics. It was prepared by Svitlana Kolesnikova. Socionics is a relatively young and dynamically developing branch of psychology which is based on Carl Jung's work on Psychological Types. According to Jung's theory of Psychological Types we are all different in fundamental ways. One's ability to process different information is limited by their particular type. These types are sixteen. In addition to 16 psychological types, there are 16 kinds of intertype relations based on the nature of information interchange between types. The members were tested and their sociotypes were defined.
