Morning, very quiet
and peaceful. Feels like no one thinks about getting up, that’s because of last night’s hard work. Questions: what will happen? Have we written
good session titles or achievable
objectives? Are our activities challenging enough?
Sleepless and tired faces in the canteen. Everyone is
busy with their own work. Reflection phase and another busy 3 hours for
planning, changing ideas and aims, asking concept questions, giving support,
still some misunderstandings.
4 p.m. and everything is done, relaxed faces, taking
feedback as gifts, ideas to think about. Group reunion again, the desire to
talk, ask about each other’s experience.
A guest speaker Joe Cook from Dummerston Council who talks about some
interesting facts connected to their work.
As we have been here for 9 days already, I decided to
investigate some facts about Vermont, in
order to deepen our knowledge and then to make our classroom presentations
in Georgia about the place we visited.
Here are my findings:
Do you know what the
name Vermont means?_ in French Vert (green), Mont ( mountain) and the original
name was _ New Connecticut,
The first state to outlaw adult slavery.
The capital Montpelier is the least populous state capital.
Motto_ Freedom and
Unity
Some symbols: Flower_ red clover,
Tree_ sugar maple
Famous person: John
Dewey ( hopefully we all will remember him for his theory of constructivism)
Evening. Dickinson campus is very hospitable as usual.
Talking about the day with a nice cup of
tea.
I am writing my piece, looking at the others and feeling that we have really experienced, reflected and analyzed a lot
together and what is our action plan? To remain friends and support each other
in Georgia like we do here.
P.S. By the way my Vermont findings and the guest speaker’s
talk about volunteerism and civic engagement can be used in our third session
planning. Good luck.
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