Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Again cloudy but a mild day

Got up, breafast usual time, walked to Ebs school as he couldn't cycle due to his injured right middle finger; talked about the future - his career plan (which he's not sure about) preferred place or country to live in - he was OK with living in London, unsure about living in Oromia; my suggestions re: if we're going to live in Oromia we need to prepare for it, have sources of income to live on, help people,

taught class - discussion on Metro news items, exam practice at E1, E2 & E3; marked ASDAN portfolios, met Bob, my mentor, had very good discussion on my supporting statement, strategy for career dev't, writing 4 interview qs based on the JD he gave me, prepare answers to it; he also briefed me on recent/future changes in FE, ESOL shirnking market, a need for repositioning myself in employability/functional skills market; consider self-employment, EFL market etc; we also talked a bit about Tanzania, Nerere, stable democracy, but low economic growth; we'll meet on 22 Feb at 3.30pm.

Took train back from Harrow-on-Hill;

Drove with C, J, E & Louisa to drop J & L to hockey; had dinner, read C's research briefing for community needs assessment study; read Gene's message about Badho & Cuqule; bath, bed.

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