Danny Voll Went to School

The Adventures of an English teacher in the Colegio Colombo Hebreo of Bogota!

Danny Voll Went to School

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Dedicated to all my students who passed through and participated in English classes in the Colegio Colombo Hebreo

Dedication

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If we were to ascribe Danny’s book to a certain category, maybe tragi-comedy would be the most appropriate.

Prologue by Ricky Ronis

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I lost the key

“Leon, can you give me your English composition?” I asked. “It’s in my locker,” Leon answered. “Can you get it please?” “I lost the key,” he replied...

You should write a book!

You can be buried here

Bye bye Jeannie
My first day of school was in January of 1980. Why did they need a teacher so urgently in January?

Question: What is a boy from North Dakota with a German last name, doing, teaching English, in a Hebrew School, in Bogota, Colombia? - Danny Voll

You were born on Tu Bishvat!

So if you can’t keep them quiet, then keep them singing!

Let My People Go!
Sometimes we had class outside with students sitting on the bleachers to sing songs. A good spiritual (Afro American) usually did the job:

Everybody evacuate!

The M-19
Not long after I started at the Hebreo in 1980, Israeli Ambassador Jaime Aron and his wife asked me to teach private English classes to their kids Cathy and Ariel...

Chiquita Banana

Danny Voll

Gringo radicado en Colombia hace 45 años; prefiere ajiaco. Profesor de ingles, maestro bíblico; enamorado de Israel y el pueblo judío influido por su iglesia en New York. Viajó por primera vez a Israel con 33 adolescentes durante 4 meses y sobrevivió. Viaja a Israel cada año.

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I have written about the incidents that are the most humorous, or the most memorable, or at least the ones that I remember.

Are you going to convert?

The fact was, I was so enthused to be working in a Jewish school, that I participated in everything: Hebrew classes with Batia Mikler, the rezo in the mornings...

Hey Kids! Leave the Teach alone!

It was with Clara Grotte that I did team teaching in the First (or was it Second) Grade class in Primary. That was the eventual Class of ’92 with Aida, Tania, Joni, Sion, Perla, Tammy, Joe, Moises, Ela, Yael and all the other wonderfully cute kids…

The Best in English class…

the best pilots, the best dancers, the best… Let’s see, what else did we do besides singing? Or study grammar?

Teachers will be teachers and…

Now, I wouldn’t want to get anyone in trouble, but a confidential secret Deep Throat source tells me, that in the days of a Physical Education teacher named “Chacho”...