Well havent been blogging for a bit. Have been on holiday and really this time was real fun meeting up with pple - more on that when i have time. The photos will also take some time. Sorry to all those I promised.
Once I got back I had to to for a two and a half day workshop at a villa like place some 2 hours from Jakarta with all the staff at school. It went quite well and had oodles of fun. We went to stay in this place that’s like a huge bungalow with an adjoining hall. I expected the worst but it was ok – quite clean and comfortable beds. We had sessions on setting standards for the school and also on coming up with mission statement and core values. That was quite boring as people would get hung out the most minute of details like “what is the difference between perseverance and determination”. But the rest of the time where we spent with doing things like going for walks, staying up late to chat, playing games like taboo was fun. On the last night – we learnt a song from Irian from the others and sang it at the barbeque. We also learnt a folk dance – “poci poci” . At one time here in Jakarta it was like the Macarena. Got to learn in a group so not paiseh la. Shocked a few pple in the process though coz quite a few pple have this impression I am very serious and dull person who is not very sporting. We have some Filipino teachers and one of them is a real great dancer so we learnt a Spanish dance as well. Cool huh.
Then we wanted to go to this snacks shop and had to go in the school car. What started out as a trip for 3 became a trip for 10 as more pple wanted to come. 10 of us squeezed into the car and off we went. It was a great 2 days as we really got to hang loose before we start school tomoro.