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The rescheduled trip dates are now confirmed as 9th to 18th February 2007. What is great is that all the original group of 8 are able to go and so we will be able to renew our friendship again. It will be wonderful to visit in summer-time instead of winter and I am sure that we will all feel the benefit of this. It does mean that I will miss 3 days of school, but my department are willing to cover for me so that the pupils do not lose out. We do not yet know if the schedule of school visits will be the same, as our South African hosts have to reorganise them. I would think that our planned excursions will be similar except that there will not be any whales to see as it is the wrong season for them. I think that the penguins will still be around though.

School life continues to be extremely hectic without a great deal of time to continue with more work on the English module. I met with David Gilmour (weblog support) for the first time this week. Ollie Bray had invited him in to work with a couple of the boys who form part of the group using the Communication Base which was part of an 'extension' to the Support for Learning Department from this August. The boys now have their own weblogs and are having great fun building these up. I am sure that they will soon be able to teach me a thing or two. A recent purchase for the SfL Department was a digital video camera and so I will consider taking this with me on the trip. Still photographs are great, but it would be exciting to record some of the school children over in the Cape Town area to show Musselburgh Grammar pupils on my return.