There’s a strange sense of deja vu about my Summer schedule this year, it’s almost the same as last year!

Today was a workshop for the Kagawa prefectural government. I was told to expect about half new people and half people from last year, but as it happens there were loads and loads of new people, so I basically did the standard for beginners workshop, but added in a few different activities.

What’s your name?
Mr Octopus
Under the Sea + Sticky fingers
Mingle
Do you like…? ( + the new Karuta )
Rocket Launch ( + Egg)

I was hoping to do some funky new stuff, but with all the beginners there most of the 3 hours was taken up with the “changing the mindset” stuff. They were cool though. The only problem is I wished they had co-ordinated the rest of the workshops with me as tomorrow they have the “teaching demo lessons in groups” thing. But as they won’t have any computers or chance to buy GE materials before then it means they’re going to have to teach using the not so good lesson plans and things they’ve been using before. Which might just end up undoing everything they learnt today! OK, that’s another thing for me to ask about in future workshops!