Not quite the end of our coordinator

Yesterday I was able to chat to Dominika via the Facebook chat facility that they have introduced. She has told me that whilst she is determined to change schools at least, if not give up teaching altogether, this won't be for at least a year. It seems that she has been in the same school for the last ten years and wants a change. However at the moment she has a group that she likes a lot and wants to take them through to the end of their time at least.

When I asked her about the project and what would happen to it, if there is someone else in the school who would run it, she said that if we get the project she would probably stay in the school the next two years to see the project through to the end. This is a relief as we now don't have to look for a new coordinator although perhaps it is a lost opportunity as the responsibility would have come to me and perhaps it would have been a good chance to get some experience in directing a project such as this. Still it is early days and there is a lot of time ahead in which I can run my own project.

The really good thing is that we won't have to look for a new place for the first project visit.

Ups and downs

Here I think is the perfect example of what can happen in a Comenius project. My project coordinator, Dominika, from Poland has just sent me a mail in which she has told me that she is looking for another job, and not just a different school but also perhaps in a different field, project management or as a flight attendant.


What that means at this point for our project I really can't say. I presume that there is another person in her school who would take over the project from her, although I don't know. If that is not the case who takes over the role of coordinator? In addition what will happen to the visit that was planned for Poland? On the papers of the application my school was put as one of the schools that would take over the role of coordinator, I can't however remember if it was only us or another school as well.

It is just another good example of the ups and downs of these types of projects.