So Much to Learn...So Little Time: Ethiopia here I come

Sunday, 15 April 2007

Ethiopia here I come

Sutcliffe goes back to Africa...at last.

It's been a long time coming but I am finally going back to Africa. (I Previously spent 2 years in Cameroon as a VSO Volunteer.)

As I intimated in a previous post I have been chosen (I did also put myself forward for the honour) to attend a seminar run by the British Council enabling clusters of schools in the UK to forge links with 2 other clusters from 2 sub-saharan countries. Obviously I am more than a tad excited about the prospect of travelling to Africa to see a country I have not yet visited but I thoroughly excited by the whole Connecting Classrooms project. I'm not going to go into it in depth now but I am hoping that we can work at establishing a really equitable, mutually beneficial project which will go a long way to meeting the goals of all partners concerned.

I am going out to represent the cluster of The Gordon Schools, Gordon Primary and Rhynie Primary and the aim is for me to find partner clusters from 2 different countries. To help me to do so I am allowed to take 1 A3 sized poster as a display. But I've also cadged a case of shortbread from Deans to help with the task.

So this time next week I shall be ensconced in the Ghion Hotel Addis Ababa and although I hope to have fun I am sure it will be hard work as there's a whole heap of cash being spent on this.

More importantly blog fans I will try to post in situ and I apologise for all the vodafone crap that will appear if i post by phone. I don't know how to get rid of it.