There is a Rapture in this Bustling Centre

Neli Kukhaleishvili , Georgia

Neli Kukhaleishvili is Director of Studies of the English Language Centre INT and ETAG (English Teachers’ Association of Georgia) Batumi Head. She is an approved ETAG - British Council trainer, a course designer of the Modern English Language Teaching training course and a designer of the trainer’s notes for Newly- Qualified Teachers’ course. She loves teaching, training teachers and being trained. Her current interests are observation for teacher development and reflective teaching. E-mail: n.kukhaleishvili @yahoo.com

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Pilgrims in my imagination
Pilgrims in reality
Pleasure, rapture
Pilgrims and pilgrimage
References

Pilgrims in my imagination

Before coming to Pilgrims, I imagined it as an enormous and beautiful well, painted in various, sparkling colours where teachers from different countries came with their own buckets to draw knowledge according to their thirst, whereas trainers helped them to take out this water and satisfy the teachers’ thirst for professional development.

Pilgrims in reality

The enormous attractive well, which was in my imagination, turned into a great training centre which offers teacher development in the form of ideas, room for speculation, options to follow activities of your choice and enthusiasm for the start of the new academic year. Various sparkling colours painted on the well are all those involving and enjoyable activities which the trainers conducted and we trainees did our best to fill our “buckets” with the “water” that came to be resources, ideas, creative activities and collaborative tasks.

Pleasure, rapture

Whenever I walked to the centre, the lines from poem 510 by Byron were haunting my mind which I rephrased to suit my feelings and my thoughts.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a rapture in the busy centre
There is society , where none intrudes but helps
There is an ELT world in front of you

Pilgrims and pilgrimage

Pilgrims host teachers and help them to undertake this long, challenging and exciting journey which turns the teachers into adventurers and experimenters, explorers and pioneers, pilgrims and pathfinders. Pilgrims, your pilgrimage is wonderful, so please keep it going!

References

Poem #510, George Gordon, Lord Byron

http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2000/08/there-is-pleasure-in-pathless-woods.html

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