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Yesterday @ Ukr. school I used a popular book on forensic science for teenagers http://www.scholastic.ca/titles/bodycrimesuspect/ to teach my students to ask questions and describe a room. 
When their parents came to pick them up, one of my students was almost short of breath of excitement telling his father about his classes. Zhenya, the school principal, was slightly shaking her head, and in her eyes there were both excitement, laughter and fear ("your jokes are at your own risk"). I could only say (in my mind) the lines of a specific prayer I had heard for the time in this school: Thank you, God, Our Creator, for giving us your kindness to learn..." That would be no fun (that's a mild word!) to be involved in the community, but being isolated because of the language. 
When their parents came to pick them up, one of my students was almost short of breath of excitement telling his father about his classes. Zhenya, the school principal, was slightly shaking her head, and in her eyes there were both excitement, laughter and fear ("your jokes are at your own risk"). I could only say (in my mind) the lines of a specific prayer I had heard for the time in this school: Thank you, God, Our Creator, for giving us your kindness to learn..." That would be no fun (that's a mild word!) to be involved in the community, but being isolated because of the language.