Sunday, 18 January 2009

Time to leave!

Well, the time to leave has finally come and I fly to Namibia from Heathrow tomorrow. The visa and passport finally arrived on Friday, with only two days to go! There is a small problem as my Visa runs out on the 14th April and I am not flying home until the 19th April!!!!!
We stop a couple of hours in Johannesburg, but should get to Windhoek in the afternoon of the 20th January. We will spend two days in Windhoek and then travel north to our placements on the Friday. I'm travelling with two other Heads Shay, from Bath and Geoff from Exeter. We go our separate ways on Friday, but we are not too far apart (100 km or so) and will hopefully meet up at weekends. I am told that I will be working with one particular school initially and then work with more as time goes on. A colleague from the 'International Placements for School Leaders' Team, has sent me a picture of a Namibian Primary School, which I thought you may like to see.

The next posting to this blog will be from Namibia, with abit of luck.

Best wishes.

Barry

3 comments:

The Baldwin Family said...

Hello Barry, good luck on your trip. I think that best way to update you of goings on in Norwich is too write my own blog just for you so that is what i'll be doing.

James (And family)

Ian said...

How on earth do we keep score during tennis without you?
- Good luck.

Farrington/Holland crew said...

Height of luxury then, looking at school-hee hee. Can't wait for update. Sara says she misses you. I think your resourcefulness may be stretched to its limits!