The cool thing about travelling is learning the different ways people do things. And one of the really cool things in Africa is the concept of “elders” older (usually) guys who have real gravitas in the community, speak in almost Yoda like wisdom and softness. So today I learnt it’s actually quite common to lose…

As education in most countries is still very much old fashion grammar, rote learning and “chalk & talk” whenever I do workshops abroad I always seem to have lots of people wanting to see what I do.  In Thailand it was the Education Minister and today it was the District Commissioner and also the gentleman…

It’s amazing how the days get shorter once you settle into a place and you know where you are going, seeing familiar faces, on the morning walk. (The construction workers made me take their photo every time I passed by!) I have three groups of teachers to train this week.  The volunteer teachers are from…

After last night thinking a bit “What am I doing here!!!?”, today was totally different. I popped along to the airport to meet the local organiser Anne and we ended up having a whirlwind tour of the islands, talks about development and meetings about this week with the local team. Being part of the community…

So today I was travelling off for my first ever workshops in  Africa. I planned to arrive a couple of days early with my brother as a little adventure, but he got sick so couldn’t come. I was a bit sad about that. Eventually, after lots of flight delays, I made it. A lot of…