Hey there, summer schoolers! I have been a student here in More Than English for nearly 5 weeks. It has been a surprise-filled and challenging experience, but now, friends, I have been asked to do a blog about my first 3 weeks here that I spent, guess what, studying Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth”!
A while ago in my hometown there was this fair where international schools presented their school programmes for students all around the world. I met the More Than English team and they were very pleased to show me how their summer school stood-out from all the other schools. When the Director of Studies came to a point were he informed me about the Get Ahead options he mentioned the opportunity to study world wide known English play-write William Shakespeare. He told me that the Shakespeare course has wonderful advantages like enlarging the view of world, humans and their behaviour as well as completing your mind with knowledge about honourable man who has influenced the world and without him the world of English and English theatre would not be the same. I was very impressed with his presentation although I thought that I probably would choose a different course if my path went through the door of More Than English.
However, after a lot of deliberation i ended up choosing this summer school and the Shakespeare option. For many years my dream has been to become an actress that’s why my father encouraged me to explore my dream and at least study Shakespeare, so i could experience the reality of acting and move on without it.
Once classes had started I was a little worried that I wouldn’t understand anything because of the old English language. But as days passed I began to feel more and more comfortable with the teacher, the play and of course my classmate.
Our 3 week course concluded with a much dreaded essay, which ended up not being as hard as i imagined. I had learnt so much new vocabulary, many quotes that I use even today as well as expand my imagination and knowledge so that I would not refuse to do another course on this world wide famous person – William Shakespeare.
Elsa (15) from Latvia
