This is a photo of our team chatting with the Prime Minister of Grenada as we wait for the ferry.
I am currently in Grenada having a wonderful time doing Project Overseas. Project Overseas is in its 50th year of offering aid to teachers around the world. I am one of 52 teachers who have been sent to one of 13 countries this summer to teach teachers. I am on a team with three other members. One is from Whitehorse while the others are from Calgary and the Ottawa Valley. We met on July 2 in Ottawa for an orientation session and flew to Grenada on July 6.
We are offering workshops on mathematics, special education, visual arts, reading, leadership and management, HIV and Aids, workshop facilitation and gender equity. It is an honour to be working with such amazing people.
The people of Grenada are wonderful and we have had a warm welcoming and our sessions are going extremely well. There are about 20 teachers in my mathematics workshop. We are having a lot of fun.
Our team met with the Deputy Minister of Education the other day for an informal meeting, we have been interviewed by the local news and had the privilege of meeting the Prime Minister as we shared the same ferry back from Carriacou. He was a nice man and did not have an army of security officers with him. He warmly greeted us, thanked us for our work and wished us well. Grenada consists of three islands, Grenada, Petite Martinique and Carriacou. We took the ferry to Carriacou to drop off Owen and Melissa as they are running workshops there, a satellite campus if you will. Gorgeous little island (13 square kilometers) with maybe one guest house and very few tourists. A really neat spot. I will have to return. It was an hour and a half ferry ride that was quite rough but all of my cookies stayed down. We had to pass over an underwater volcano and that area is always very rough. It is an inactive volcano but it is where the two oceans meet therefore causing rough seas.
We are very lucky our apt is 500m from the beautiful Grand Anse Beach. I think I have hit the water everyday but one so far.
You can check out the photos from our training in Ottawa and our first few days in Grenada at the following two links.
Click on this link for photos from our orientation in Ottawa
Click on this link for photos from Grenada and Carriacou
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