A nice little get together at my Dom.

Very very very tired and a little alcohol fuelled, now that is what I call a staff conference. We started at 8.40 and have only just finished at 8.40 pm and tomorrow it will be the same, and a recent Uzbek tour guide accused the Kyrgyz of not being hard working! This, in the case of the staff from my school,  after working all day yesterday preparing the showers and rooms for all the staff from the 5 Bilimkana schools so that they can sleep in the school and attend the conference - they have done a brilliant job they look great and it is a good dry run for the summer camp,  or in the case of the visiting staff they went on a factory tour on route to here to assess a potential place for group visits.    I was one of today's speakers, I had made a short video, but then discovered I had a 30 minutes slot but had so much to say that was easy,. I then disappeared up to the school to build on my work yesterday trying to burying as much wood as possible in the apple field crazy I know but everyone else was busy putting up pictures, or making beds, they work instinctively as a team, this is my way to contribute and what was nice today I meet someone from the Foundation who totally understood my aims.I had carefully embedded the apple project into my talk so that the school will have to follow up on it.  This new colleague who works at head office and is helping with the summer scheme studied at the Schumacher College in England she studied holistic science so of course she got what I am trying to do.  So although I am very tired it has been like all good staff conferences very thought provoking, we have covered, schemes of work, the dreaded lesson plans, I have refused to return if I have to do them here! we have looked at tablets, and whilst I was away marketing. In my case challenging of course as I do not speak Russian, but everyone has engaged with me, and tried to help me, it is lovely seeing some of the people I have met before, and now we have all had a first glass of vodka we are all a little more relaxed.