Goodies and Running Around
on Kate in Guyana (Guyana), 21/Jan/2010 19:33, 34 days ago
Well I was in the lap of luxury on Sunday, I was invited for tea and cheesecake and a game of cards (rummy) with someone who works at the American Embassy - the cheesecake was the biggest I have ever seen and was delicious, there was real coffee and a host of other snacks. I told them about pudding evenings in the UK and they thought could be a good idea for Guyana. I am going round there this Sunday for a bridge evening, so the may be a possibility of more goodies. Treats have a bigger hit when you are living off bean stew and rice for the rest of the week.Things at work have gone a bit potty, as we have been asked to write a training course for teachers in special needs schools IMMEDIATELY. That is really the problem, we get almost no management input for four months then suddenly the minister says something and everyone has to run around. Still it does make sense for us to leave a good solid course which covers the skills that we have. Fortunately one of us VSOs has the skills to transfer it into distance learning format, and they have time to do it (if their work doesn't take off by the time we have got the material together).Also today a couple of us were called in to assist in a fact finding visit to the unit for the blind where I have been working mainly. We were told that it was to investigate a complaint that they were not doing anything, but in fact the person from the Ministry of Education was very fair, very interested and supporting change. He said he would try to get a separate grant from the ministry instead of having to go through the two mainstream schools all the time. So that may just work out well.Tomorrow Friday and Monday we have VSO training days, which is a bit of a holiday really, so I'm looking forward to that. Cheers!