This school week started straight away on a zippy note (am I sounding British yet?) with a school visit to Lancaster Girls Grammar School and seminars on campus and homework and research. Even though we're not actually attending a regular class each day, we still have much work to do of both group and individual nature.
We have thoroughly enjoyed two informative and well-presented seminars by Don Passey, a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University. One session was on the educational system and the other on information and communication technology in the United Kingdom. Even though his presentations were two and a half hours long each, we decided we could have listened to him talk just as long as he wanted to talk.
And of course we also have a new system to negotiate. Just finding our way to the meeting rooms was a challenge last week and this week we have some more refined tasks. For instance, today it took me twenty minutes to figure out how to set up a print budget at the university library so I could print out three pages!
Even though tomorrow is the 4th of July, it truly is just another Wednesday here. We are visiting Dolphinholme School in the morning and Our Lady's Catholic College in the afternoon. But then we're throwing our own Independence Day potluck! And we'll be thinking of you all as you enjoy the fireworks -- well, maybe we won't be thinking of you right then since it will be about 3 a.m. here as you enjoy the fireworks there!
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