Hey Everyone!

Hey Everyone,
Sorry it is so long since I wrote our internet has been awful and I have been very busy as well.
Well what has happened since I last posted? I am sure quite a lot but as I can’t actually get online to look at what I last posted I may repeat myself …. sorry.
Well over the last few weeks I have been giving English language methodology training for second cycle teachers, which has been going well but very difficult to coordinate given that each school seems to have a different time table.
I also visited a special needs unit here and I thought they were doing fantastic they had really tried to organize the classrooms well, however when I watched the DVD Untamed Love the other day which is about a Special Needs class it brought me back to earth!!
But really, the teachers were lovely with the students and had made lots of media, they have deaf students and blind students and then Learning disabled students, however very few actually come to school regularly and mostly boys come as parents see no point in sending the girls. The teachers said no body knows what to do with the learning disabled so although I know very little I will try over the next while to help the as much as I can. So far I have made jig saws and other toys to develop motor skills, but I think our special needs unit is miles ahead of any other from what I have heard so at least we are starting from a good base.
We have been basking in the glory of the national conference since it finished given that it was a roaring success however it also means the workload has increased this week alone (an it is only Tuesday) we have a team of researchers come to assess the schools and students to see if the international donors should expand their funding program for cluster work, we have been told by the Regional Education Bureau to give training for all supervisors in the region, and following that all high school teachers. So it is busy busy here at the moment.
I am looking forward to my parents coming to visit now; I wonder what they will make of everything here. It is very hard to remember what it was like at first, as now it just feels like home.
People have been really good fundraising for the schools here and really, people here appreciate it very much. This week we will be buying computers for the schools, we have already made blackboards and we are arranging to get brail text books for the blind students and have many other projects planned – a little money goes a long way here.
So thank you to everyone who has been fundraising, especially to the perfume sellers in Selskar Court.

Anyway, I will try and improve on the posting. I am going to ask Jerome to post this for me as it is impossible for me to access the site at the moment I don’t know why!

Take care and enjoy the warm weather as your weather is heating up ours is cooling down.