Well so far it has been an easy trip. The flights were fine, customs was a non-event. The poor guy had to ask me to take off my glasses 4 times since I had a hard time with his accent. April picked me up at the airport and we managed my ridiculously large and heavy suitcases fine.
Her place is gorgeous with spectacular views of the moody, Table Mountain. She doesn't have wireless but I am managing. I realize how dependent I am on wireless and my small world of my phone. It's different.
Today we did all sorts of errands for my workshops and being with April is fabulous she even know which aisle the ziplock bags are in and where to buy 1000 coin batteries!! I started to make my kits. I still have to polish my lesson plans but am hoping once I join up with my Teach With Africa crew that the ideas will be more tailored to what people will want.
I can't upload a photo on her machine but perhaps tomorrow on my trusty old Mac.
I am excited for the adventure to begin.
Monday, July 28, 2014
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Three days to go Teach With Africa- Liberation
Packing up at our farm in the Catskill Mountains. It's hot and sunny. I am packing up for a cool and not so sunny time in South Africa. I have gathered lots of materials both real and digital and I am getting ready for my two workshops, Light Up- paper circuits and Word Clouds and Visualizing Data- websites Wordle & Gapminder.
I am excited and humbled by the program. I want to be able to offer useful information for teachers grades K-12 and I am surely going to learn a lot from all of them about their work, it's joys and difficulties.
I have tried to read some things this summer, a memoir Shirley, Goodness and Mercy by Chris Van Wyk as well as collections of folk tales gathered by Hugh Tracey and Nelson Mandela. I am hoping to hear some more about poetry and literature that the students study from the teachers I will be working with.
I like this poster that a friend, David Rosas- an administrator at Mott School in NYC, posted on his facebook account. Let the liberation begin.
I am excited and humbled by the program. I want to be able to offer useful information for teachers grades K-12 and I am surely going to learn a lot from all of them about their work, it's joys and difficulties.
I have tried to read some things this summer, a memoir Shirley, Goodness and Mercy by Chris Van Wyk as well as collections of folk tales gathered by Hugh Tracey and Nelson Mandela. I am hoping to hear some more about poetry and literature that the students study from the teachers I will be working with.
I like this poster that a friend, David Rosas- an administrator at Mott School in NYC, posted on his facebook account. Let the liberation begin.
Thanks for all the support from Burkes, my siblings––Libby, Wilder and Dolly–– and my dear cousins, Tom, Myrna and Ellen and my dear friends, Susan and Leland. But most especially thanks to my biggest fan, Daniel.
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