Today was the last day of classes of my first semester of teaching. My final class was my Russian Politics course. I brought some snacks and most of the students showed up despite the class being optional. This was a bit of a surprise since the last class for my Democratization course had only four students show up. My last Political Culture class managed to have an even lower attendance with three students responding to my advertisement of free food. But, the biggest surprise was what the students gave me. They presented me with a shirt bearing the university emblem. Beneath it they had written out CCCP (USSR in Russian) and then vertically spelled out the acronym in Russian as Samyi, Samyi, Super, Respekt. The t in Respekt then intersected with Otto written horizontally at the bottom of the shirt. On the back of the shirt many of the students had written personal messages and thank you notes with their signatures. I spent a long time in the desert looking for "just a little bit."
"R-E-S-P-E-C-T"
Quoted material from A. Franklin
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4 comments:
So nice to be appreciated by your students! Enjoy your break!
Thanks for the comment Sharon.
How cool! (At first I thought you had written that word in Estonian ;))
Kristin: The words on the shirt were written in Russian not Estonian. But, it was very cool.
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