So, I've heard from a few people in now about failing to update the blog. Sorry about that, and thanks for letting me know that you've been checking! It certainly hasn't been for lack of material, but it turns out that a weekend between getting home and starting back to school was not enough time to...well, to do anything much more than try to get my body adjusted to the 9 hour time shift. It's been great to be back at Northwest. The school community has been wonderfully warm and enthusiastic in welcoming me back into its comforting and familiar fold. At the same time, it has felt jarring to just abandon all of the routines and relationships that I established in Cape Town. For example, I have to admit (sheepishly) that I've hardly checked the news sources that were my daily diet during my stay. Did the ANC discipline Jacob Zuma beyond a slap on the wrist? Have there been more school protests? Has the World Cup squad been announced? Who made the team? Clearly, I need to spend some time on the Cape Times and Mail & Guardian websites!
As far as processing and synthesizing my South African experience, I have submitted an article to the Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa's Bulletin on the multi-school work party model, and a fellow Fulbright awardee and I have proposed a session on our experiences for the regional private school association conference in October. Beyond that, I still have a lot of notes and impressions to sort through. I may get a chance to present at a global education conference in July. If so, that will be a good target for organizing a coherent summary of my research.
For now, however, a very patient group of students deserves to have their exams graded!
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