Boulder, CO: In continuation of the relationship inspired by the Boulder-Dushanbe Sister Cities program, Tajik Teacher Zeboniso (“Zebo”) Murodova is visiting Arapahoe Campus in the Boulder Valley School District on Monday, Nov. 14. Murodova is currently a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (Fulbright FLTA) teaching Tajik twice in a week at Arizona State University in Tempe. Her weekend visit to Colorado will be hosted by BVSD Teacher Jode Brexa, who spent several weeks in Tajikistan in March 2010 as part of an educational and cultural exchange program run by the U.S. Department of State and International Research and Exchange Board. Murodova had hosted Brexa’s visit in 2010.
Media are invited during the visit for photos and interviews anytime during the day.
A special photo opportunity will take place at 1 p.m. while Murodova is making Thanksgiving Cornucopias with Greenhouse Management students.
Zebo Murodova’s schedule on Monday, Nov. 14
(Arapahoe Campus, 6600 E. Arapahoe Road, Boulder)
7:40 a.m. - Tour of School
8:30 a.m. - Cafeteria: Two classes of students join Zebo in a round table discussion
9:05 a.m. - Digital Storytelling Presentation in Sarah Flynn's Art class; Visit to Newcomers Program
10:25 a.m. - Discussion of culture and marriage customs in Carolyn Puska's classroom
11:40 a.m. - Lunch in cafeteria; round table with any teachers or students who would like to join
12:15 p.m. - Manicure with a cosmetology student in the Career and Technical Education Center
12:45 p.m. - Visit to Greenhouse Management to work with students on making Thanksgiving Cornucopias. This program is taught by Heather Riffel who recently received a State Department Teacher’s Globalizing Classrooms award. Murodova will talk with students about Tajik “dastarhan” customs
1:00 p.m. - Photo in Greenhouse Management with Deirdre Pilch, Assistant Superintendent of School Leadership, High Schools and Middle Schools
2:00 p.m. - Departure for airport
BVSD welcomes Zebo Murodova to Boulder!
The Boulder-Dushanbe Sister Cities organization is sponsoring a welcome dinner for Murodova at the Dushanbe Teahouse in Boulder at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11.
Boulder-Dushanbe Sister Cities sponsors cultural, educational, medical, and business exchanges between Dushanbe and Boulder. Boulder’s sister city relationship with Dushanbe is recognized both nationally through Sister Cities International agencies in the United States and Tajikistan, and locally through a protocol agreement between the governments of both cities. Established by U.S. President Eisenhower in 1956, Sister Cities International now links over 2500 communities with partners in 126 nations around the world, all pledged to the ideal of "people-to-people contacts emphasizing projects of commonality rather than areas of division." www.sister-cities.org/