People don’t half come out with some strange excuses! Today I got an email from a teacher who was wanting me to do a workshop at her son’s school. But the reply that came back was that because the school had signed an agreement with another publisher, the Ministry of Education were banning me from doing a workshop there!! Oh dear!! There is no such rule of course ( I’ve presented at loads of the pilot schools) and it’s the head teacher who is making an excuse. The funny thing is that the teacher in charge at the school did attend one of my workshops and is now using the Superpack instead of the other company’s stuff! Which is cool, but it also means they’ll get the credit for the improvement in the kids! The other one was from a supervisor who was thinking of asking me to do a workshop in the prefecture but then said it was a no-go because I’m not on the Ministry’s “list of approved professors”. Again there is no such list, but it was quite ironic as I had previously done a presentation in the same prefecture that was actually sponsored by the Ministry!!! But that’s how things work, just got to be patient until they have actually seen my presentations and then I end up coming back a million and one times ( just look at this months schedule!)
Anyway, today was the same as yesterday, I updated the Picture Books pages with most of the new picture books, booked my transport for the weekend, sorted out a load more workshops for the summer etc. etc. but I still have a load more to do!