And lest you think that it's all just play around here...
I also went to a meeting at the Ministry of Education the other day. It was held in a tent in the courtyard of the government offices. That's their new "board" room. Very posh with their plastic tables and chairs. Lawn furniture doubles as office furniture, even in government offices, in this country! At least you know that you'll always have an equally uncomfortable chair to sit in no matter what meeting you end up in!
The meeting was very interesting - I won't go into all the details, but I have to say that it gave me some very good insight into how the Ministry goes about planning things and how they work! Of course, those meetings are always wonderful times to network with people, too, on various issues. And we got to sound like broken records again, talking about mother tongue and the importance of the use of the local languages in education!
The meeting was also worthwhile because I did get a free can of Coke and an icy cold bottle of water to sip whilst the meeting was taking place. Poor people who come to our center for meetings - the only thing they usually get is a glass of lukewarm salty water from our borehole!
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