Pleasant day:new Kyrgyz colleague came down to see school get a flavour of issues there and to help me smooth things over re how to manage my affairs at the Ashu. Great.
Then my colleague who recruited me phoned. He has now left the Foundation, but has remained a friend and supporter trying to help us get things resolved so that everything works better for me and my other colleague and the Foundation and the students. However he spent the evening over several calls having a go at me, for the term he used at the end was an exceptionalist. He explained before I put the phone down on him for the third time that was a soviet term for someone who did not support the grievances of others. He seemed to think that I should put into the public domain some of the problems we had been having and that I should keep him informed about this - which I was not entirely comfortable with. So I am putting this in the public domain instead. I still have real concerns about a lot of things, but I have as many concerns about the way a lot of educational organisations are run in the UK too. I think that on one level the Foundation is trying to sort things, but given for example my poor colleague is still on a lilo they have a very long way to go. If that makes me an exceptionalist then I am, but I have taken exception to being accused of that.
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