Thursday, March 12, 2009

Long time no read

Looked through the project blogs tonight and saw little news - apart from inspiring pictures from the 009-team prep meeting in Madrid and a kind of sad, thought-provoking message on the See-yia blog ... well, also our blog is not exactly renewing itself every two days (Hazel, Paul - lets blog!).
Well, I have started to reconnect with some of my mentees; seems that the training projects have completely taken over the "agenda", obviously. It took me also some time after Turkey to get back into the ToT-working mode; I felt I needed some distance after this very intense experience. But I suppose I am not alone on this.
And then I had some important commitments on local level:
What a feeling - sitting almost 4 hours on a throne and being driven through the town! I still have not finished my reflections on "how come that I who is not exactly a big fan of carneval ended up on this chair in this dress". But of course it does something with your ego - being highup and fotographed and waved at and smiled at - all that trainers want, no??????--)))


Last but not least I was in an interesting meeting for our big project on "Learning to Learn"; discussing all around definitions, understandings, competences, etc... One of our challenging questions we tackled was: Is "Learning to Learn" the same as "Self-Directed Learning"??? What do you think? Surely the questions will sneak in one way or the other into seminar 3...
All the best
Peter