Things that have happened since our course together

Hi Everybody,
The ten days we spent together in Rutherford Extension 11 seems a long time ago. I know it isn't but after your course I got drafted from evening programme work into taking over the group of a colleague who did not have the right things to give her group.
I felt like a cuckoo having to do this.......and I felt some resentment at a group who had unseated their trainer. ( We have all had difficult classes...or at least classes that seemed to us difficult)
I took me about three days to fully shed this feeling of resentment towards the participants, though at the same time understanding and sympathising with their deep discontent.

Then came the 35 Anniversary Conf........My job was to give the final plenary somehow drawing of the previous four plenaries. Stimulating but risky work.
The Conference was really extrordinarily harmonious and the level of animation was very high.
I went to a brilliant workshop on primary story-telling , given by Eleanor Watts. Wow!

Then a week's semi-holiday: ;local tourism in the early morning and work through the rest of the day.

On Friday I am off to Wales for a five day cottage holiday....and then a conf in Czech Republic.

Some of you must be on the cusp of the new academic year in all the various places where you teach. The geographical spread from Trinidad to Slovenia and from Azerbaijan to Poland. I look forward to hearing how this real beginning of the course happens. I guess your thoughts on this may be interesting to all the blog readers.

I wonder how many people have been in touch with Hanna K about writing something for HLT?
Don't forget.......

Good night,

Mario