Finding the balance

As one can easily see from the dating of this and the next most recent post, I’ve been taking a break from personal blogging. It’s been a chance to step back and reflect on how I spend my time and how much is dedicated to may family, as well as what kind of role model [...]

Time-outs and a cup of tea

My poor neglected blog. I have to admit, I’m a drop-out, sad as it sounds.
But I have a little story to tell.
I headed off for holidays at the beginning of October, full of good intentions to come back loaded with ideas and motivated to continue the course I’ve been doing.
However, life often trips one up, [...]

Reflections on FOC week 1

I didn’t really have any expectations about this course and how it would be run, but simply threw myself into cold water.

And I’m more than happy with what is going on. It looks like the discussions will be deep and the learning will be steep.
It has been an intense week with a lot of negotiating [...]

Your Day in a Sentence and Chinswing

Well, it’s Sunday and time to compile all those days that have been collected either here or over at Chinswing.
Matthew was quite busy and in need of a break from the break:
There is so much work to do on vacation; I’m ready for vacation.
As was Cristina
Today it was all about meetings, meetings and meetings!!Hoping [...]

Hosting: Day in a sentence

Welcome to Day in a sentence!
I am glad to have the honor of hosting it this week for Kevin and am looking forward to hearing from those of you who have stayed home for vacation. If you are new to Day in a sentence, it’s easy. Just tell us about your day or [...]

The 21 days are over

I really don’t know how many people I motivated to join in the challenge, but not many contacted me. It was the first time for me to organize something like this, and I’m sure I stumbled into all the potholes. naja
Nevertheless, I feel a sense of success and happiness at what I saw happen with [...]

Day 5 of the 21-day challenge

The ETAS Teacher-to-Teacher Project

Cindy Hauert, the initiator and co-ordinator of the current ETAS Teacher-to-Teacher project, became interested in helping Matopo Primary School on a visit to Zimbabwe in 2003. Through friends in the region, the first steps were taken to make contact with the Headmaster, Mr Newman Ncube, and the Deputy Headmaster, Mr Patson [...]

The 21-day challenge for a good cause

At the moment there is much suffering in the world and all eyes are turned east towards China and Burma. People’s suffering in these places is horrifying, but the charity being generated throughout the world is commendable.
Yet there are other places of need and suffering. Places that don’t get in the news, or get [...]

It’s been an interesting week for blogging. There are two separate things going on (sometimes the vocabulary for these ‘things’ just really fails me ) . One is the comment challenge, which is generating a lot of communication and connections. I declined to join the challenge seeing as how I was quite busy. [...]

I’ve been tagged!

Berta tagged me in a a comment of the last post. So I will join in the Meme game
Alicia also tagged me a while ago for the meme game, but unfortunately, I was too busy for having fun. Now I’ve been tagged again, so here it goes long over due…
What was I doing 10 [...]