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Apparently, living overseas boosts creativity
Lovely night last night at Ross Atherton’s (editor of PC Gamer) leaving party. He’s off to do exciting things in Paris. As it was also the first time I’d met up with Bath people since getting back from Zambia, obviously there were lots of questions about how it all went. Mostly the evening was spent…
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The thatcherless years
Just time for one last bundle of thoughts before the plane leaves. Plenty more to write up later, but for now, this will have to do. It’s as easy to play armchair politics as it is to be the world’s greatest football manager from the comfort of your couch. All the same, it’s impossible not…
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School posters
Back at Simakakata today, and the funny thing is that my brain is can no longer comprehend the incredible poverty here. Despite everything, the lack of food, of water, of teaching materials, of clothes for the kids, of shoes… it all seems so normal. Just another primary school. Now with added day nursery. Even though my eyes…
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When the lights go out
Forget everything I said about Livingstone being civilisation… the 3G is too slow here to use for updates, and the power’s been off all day, so we haven’t been able to use the connection at the backpacking hostel we’re staying at to do any work either. There are photos to go with this post, but…
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Joining the Dead Aid debate
We’re back in Livingstone after a strangely uneventful bus ride, all things considered. Driving over the parts of the main Livingstone to Lusaka road that are just dirt tracks in a six wheel coach should, really, have felt more adventurous than it actually did. I guess National Express-style buses are the same the world over…
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The story so far
Most of the evenings here have been spent fighting a slow internet connection – it can take an hour of failed attempts to get a photo up for the LearnAsOne blog, so we’ve been working on that pretty much flat out. We’ve been at the school now for four days, and the kids have gone…
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I promised myself…
That first day we got to the school I’d write up a blog post from the site, rather than head back to the motel to transcribe and upload. So here it is. Short and sweet because LearnAsOne get the best stuff. The school we’re raising funds for is this old farmhouse. The day starts at…
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Touch down in Livingstone
<!– @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } –> a very staccato, quick post to get things going. The flight to Joburg was fairly uneventful – thanks to checking in online before I left yesterday morning I managed to get an aisle seat with one next to me spare, so I got…
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Busy times
The last couple of weeks have been utterly insane. As much as I thought the Zambia experience was going to be just a couple of weeks, every spare moment between trying to cram four weeks work into a fortnight has been spent either writing press releases and blog posts for the LearnAsOne site or trying…
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Why education?
More updates at LearnAsOne. I spent a good portion of the weekend finishing off the research and writing a series of blog posts for the main site to go up on a daily basis before Steve leaves for Zambia in two weeks. The first went up last night. Click on the picture to read it.
