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Maja Tarachovskaya, a math teacher at the M. Gorky school, who was resourceful and did not search for a word in her pocket, accepted the quarantine as a gift from God. When some suffered isolation, others cursed the authorities imposing restrictions, Klaipeda educated the children at a distance and finished writing three of his books.
Threat of internal explosion
– How did you survive the quarantine?
– Very creative. First of all, I mastered a new profession: distance teacher. Not only that, I wrote three very expensive books for myself during quarantine. I started writing one of them six years ago, another five years ago, and a third last summer. They were left unfinished. And during the quarantine, I wrote daily. I came across an absolute marathon. It turns out that creative people can’t shut down. Man is a social creature, isolation is disastrous for him.
– Have you already shown your works to someone?
– I uploaded each new section to my Facebook every day. People read and waited for the sequel. I finished a book, started another. Frankly, the quarantine became a godsend to me because until then I was insanely tired of everything.
– Who pushed you?
– Everything. There was even an idea of leaving work at school. I didn’t understand why or why we were doing all this. They put a lot of unnecessary documentation on teachers, which does not help the teacher’s work at all, but only hinders it. During the quarantine, without facing those plans, we got along perfectly. Tired of everything before the quarantine, I was not alone, but most of my colleagues.
Man is a social creature, isolation is disastrous for him.
– And suddenly quarantined, what has changed in your life?
– I was so morally rested from everything. I took lessons, wrote books, and went to the beach every day. It turns out that it was necessary to break with the normal rhythm of life. I realized that if I didn’t change anything, that quarantine would destroy me. And that’s the only way I survived.
Distance learning grimaces
– Did you mention distance learning, did the children benefit from it?
– Double feeling, although in my opinion it hurt more than it helped. Distance learning is not for everyone. There are children who simply develop without communicating. They are overwhelmed by bad moods, including depression. Inconvenient for the teachers themselves. It seems what’s wrong here, sitting at home in front of the screen and talking. But it was all very reckless. And there was no time to think. We were ready for that, and then we were ripped from one program to another, the kids didn’t understand what those teachers wanted from them. It was especially difficult with the younger ones. For the seniors, on the other hand, they are almost adults, that distance learning was just for them.
– And that distance education was a difficult task for you?
– I can’t say it’s some kind of shock or stress, but it wasn’t easy for most of the teachers to break through. After all, their parents were behind the students, they saw everything and heard what the teacher was teaching. Thus, distance learning revealed all the pros and cons of school. Parents finally appreciated the sincere and hardworking teacher.
– Was there any benefit from distance learning?
– In my opinion, the biggest benefit of all this is that we have finally realized that what we have called bad so far has not been so bad.
– And what are the disadvantages of such training?
– Lack of communication. After all, a school is not just an educational institution. Education even takes a back seat, first of all it is the personal communication of the teacher with the student, when he can talk to him, comfort him, explain him not directly on the screen, but directly. No one can change that, no matter how hard someone tries to show how wonderful distance learning is. However, for some children it was very suitable, especially for students with special needs. They were not distracted by their classmates, they responded normally to the teacher’s comments. Although their parents were afraid of homeschooling, they were convinced that their children needed to socialize, but as my personal practice has shown, some of these children cannot be in society at all, they feel bad there. For these students, distance education was an ideal option.
Demanded a happy ending
– How do you have time to write, creativity?
– It is true that I can write anywhere, even in a queue, waiting for something. Anyway, I wrote this in the afternoons and in the evening, when all the lessons were finished and the students’ homework was arranged.
Premiere: based on the play “We are astronauts” by M. Tarachovskaja from Klaip, da, Klaip Jewishda Jewish Community Theater “Šatil” staged a performance. / Photo by Vytautas Petrikas
– What are your books about?
– The first novel is very feminine, it’s called “Hello, I am”. It is about a woman who lives in the family, but basically very alone, who goes to the mirror every morning and looks at it, says: “Hello, me.” That’s where your day begins. She is a biology teacher who often gets into unsuccessful situations. The book is sad and funny. My heroine is not very happy, but when I posted a new chapter on the Internet every day, readers began to demand a happy ending and it occurred to me.
– What are the other two books about?
– I have a friend of Chechen origin who lives in Georgia. She was a man with a very difficult destiny, having lost all her loved ones during the two Chechen-Russian wars and barely surviving herself, she told me an episode in her life story that was turned into a book. The fate of my third book is also extraordinary. When my second son got married, I decided to write the “Anyta Alphabet”. I already had one gear, now a second. Then I started writing that alphabet. Everything went very well, people read with pleasure. And suddenly our relationship with the second gear somehow didn’t turn out so bad, they were friendly, but maybe not entirely sincere. And I stopped writing. I realized that I couldn’t write about what would be a shame for me next. Gi and I are learning to be a mother. And the gears are all different. I did not write anything for six years and suddenly I realized that I had to continue because I had already matured, I had already become an experienced mother and that is why I had to maintain a great family relationship. I started writing again, every day after chapters A to Z. The most interesting thing is that when I finished writing, suddenly my relationship with second gear became ideal. I myself did not understand what happened.
– Maybe she read your book?
– I do not think so. I’m not sure. Probably my words and thoughts materialized somehow. It’s a big secret for me.
– And like your plays, maybe you created something new?
– Now we are building a piece in the Jewish community, which is very dear to me. It’s called “A terrible world for me where you’re not there.” For the past five years, I have only seen one image of this play, then unwritten: a Jewish wedding that takes place in a wagon that takes people to a concentration camp. What was supposed to come from that, he didn’t understand yet. Two years ago a very beautiful woman died, a friend of my mother, she was a Russian teacher. A year later there was a commemoration of her death where I met her husband. He tells me: “Today I got ready to call his disciple, I opened his notes, from which a pamphlet fell out, written by his hand,” A terrible world where I am not for you. ” He told me as if he had received a message from that world. It will be my unwritten play, it will be for all the mothers in the world.
– With the Jewish theater in which you act, a lot of work by the director Nerijus Gedrimas, how did he evaluate your new play?
– Spitting is amazing. That piece is very difficult to build, you need to be a tightrope walker aimed at doing it. The plot is as follows: a middle-aged man receives notes from his mother containing letters from a Jewish woman to her son Izenka. That man at first reads and does not understand who these people are and what he is taught here. Eventually, it turns out that the Jew was his real mother and, to save his son from death, he gave him to a strange woman at birth. That Jew survived, but out of the utmost respect for the woman who raised his son, she did not claim any rights over him, never knew him, but wrote letters to her son on each of his birthdays, which she now reads. There is one last line in that play that the actor is unable to say during rehearsals. He cries. As soon as the quarantine ended, we immediately started the rehearsals. The work will have 25 people. Of course, we didn’t have that many actors, then we addressed the people of Klaipeda: “People, we need you.” And people of all nationalities and ages responded. Our director, whom I cannot help but admire, works with a girdle. He is capable of reaching the very essence of the work, its depth. We love him with all our hearts. He works with pleasure and is very happy when we are lucky.
Visiting card
For the past 20 years, M. Tarachovskaya has been a professor at M. Gorky Progymnasium.
She raised three children with her husband Yevgeny.
Play in amateur theater.
He has written more than 40 plays and is performing not only in Russia up to Usurijsk, but also in Israel, Canada, Norway, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, all the republics of the former Soviet Union and Ukraine.
The plays “Mamules” (Russian: “Mamki”) and “We – Astronauts” have already been performed in Klaipeda.
Tarachovskaya signs his works under the pseudonym Asios Kotliar.
This August, a two-series film based on the play “My Kitchen” by A. Kotliar (M. Tarachovskaya) will begin shooting in Ukraine.
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