Why write this blog?


I am writing this blog because when I started to investigate the world of Comenius Projects I found almost nothing that was of any use to me in starting up my own project. Since then things have improved a lot but I would like to think that anyone that finds and reads this blog will get a lot out of it and will be encouraged to participate in their own project. Here I am recording all the steps I take and all the ups and down I experience, the honest unvarnished reality.

If anyone would like to contact me to talk further about comenius projects please don't hesitate to do so.


Sunday, November 18, 2007

Money and invitations

Dominika has just written to me forwarding to me a mail she has received from Nikos in Greece asking me to urgently send a written invitation to him in Greece, it appears that his agency will not accept the application unless they have a written invitation from our school. Nikos needs this by the 20th.

I have checked that an e-mail from me is not enough and that it is only an official school mail that will in fact suffice, then I had to explain to Tere (the school Secretary) what I needed and that she had to let me use the school's official e-mail. This in itself was not easy as she wasn't really sure how to get into it, apparently this is normally only Francesc's (our director) job. Finally I was able to write the mail and send it, I can only hope that it is in time for him to complete the application.

Until now I haven't really received any information about the partners we will have in the project but at least now I have seen that he is from Thessalonika, in the part of Greece that is Macedonia. I really would have been nice if Dominika could have sent out info about the rest of the partners to all of us but from what she tells me she is very busy with a Moroccan exchange at the moment.
He has included this image of the island of Nisyros.
Additionally I have spoken to Nuria Estrada about the visit and she has informed me that curiously the host school on the preparatory visits doesn't receive any money towards the visit. I had had ideas of using the money I thought I would receive to take the people on a couple of visits and for buying something for them. Now I will have to think again, I suppose the school will foot the bill for some things and I can always ask the local council and the parent's association for help in funding the visit.

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