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Day 19: The Last Workshop
Saturday was our last official day of our alt prac and we finished with a bang. We returned to the Aga Khan University (AKU) where we...
Glynis Perrett
Apr 8, 20192 min read
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Days 17 and 18: Prep and Travel
Thursday was a sleep in day for most with a focus for the day on workshop preparation. On Saturday we are running a workshop at Aga Khan...
Glynis Perrett
Apr 1, 20191 min read
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Day 16: Females in STEM
Day 16 was a relatively quiet day for the Queen's crew with only one school visit. Some of us went to Camp Kigali bright and early to...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 30, 20191 min read
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Days 14 and 15: Back to School, Back to School...
For Monday and Tuesday of our Rwandan journey we broke up into smaller groups and spent the majority of the days in the schools we had...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 29, 20192 min read
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Day 13: Hotel Rwanda and the Genocide
Sunday was our day off this week and we were extremely eager to spend our morning visiting the genocide museum in Kigali. We slowly began...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 27, 20192 min read
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Day 12: Workshop 1
A couple of days ago a rumour was floating around that we would be putting on a workshop on our second day in Rwanda....and surprise! We...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 25, 20192 min read
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Day 11: School-a-palooza!
Yowza! We had an early start to the day because, as predicted, day 11 was a school-a-palooza (term coined by fellow Queen's teacher...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 24, 20192 min read
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Day 10: Here we go again!
Today was a dedicated travel day to fly to Rwanda. Because we are such a large group (16 in total!) we flew in 2 shifts. The "am crew"...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 23, 20191 min read
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Day 9: And Then we Rest
Over the last few days most of us have struggled through some sort of illness (nothing serious but intensely unpleasant!) So we were all...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 22, 20191 min read
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Day 8: Building PLCs with Aga Khan University
I feel like I'm still processing our visit with the masters students in education at Aga Khan University. The day was filled with...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 21, 20192 min read
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Day 7: Strive for Academic Excellence
As we pulled up to Oysterbay Secondary School the first thing we saw was their motto painted on the school fence: "Strive for Academic...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 19, 20192 min read
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Days 4, 5, 6: Zanzibar!
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of this past week our group enjoyed some much needed R&R at New Teddys on the Beach in Jambiani, Zanzibar...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 18, 20191 min read
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Day 3: Out to the Country
On day 3 we woke up before the crack of dawn, scarfed down our hotel breakfast, and boarded a hired bus to take us out to the Mkuranga...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 16, 20192 min read
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Day 2: off to the Embassy
Today started with a visit to the Canadian embassy in Dar es Salaam. This certainly was a first for most of us! We dressed up in our...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 15, 20191 min read
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Teacher Feature #1: Dr. Carolyn Creighton
Over this African adventure I'd like to introduce you to the 12 other Queen's University teacher candidates. My first friend I'd like to...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 13, 20191 min read
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Day 1: Hit the ground running...
We woke up this morning with plans to visit a school or two and meet the former minister of education in Tanzania before taking the...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 13, 20191 min read
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And we're off!
Winter was sad to see us go and decided to put on a good show of rain freezing rain and snow to send us off. But we all made it to...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 10, 20191 min read
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Welcome!
Why hello there! Welcome to my blog where I will be chronicling my alternate practicum journey to Africa (Tanzania and Rwanda...
Glynis Perrett
Mar 9, 20193 min read
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