Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Just a quick update ...
Today we've done LOADS. And as it's really late, then we will just blog quickly about the basics we did (and then expand tomorrow [hopefully]). We started the morning at 8 o clock, and drove to a school which we had yet to visit, it was a mixed school (so far this week we've been to all girls' schools, and all boys' schools) - we looked around the rooms, and their classes have about 90 students in, and sometimes more. We sat in on a "lecture" about modern teaching methods in the U.K, and they are completely different to the methods in Bangladesh due to class size. We watched presentations which the school had prepared for us: this included dancing, power points, singing etc. It was a real insight into their culture. We also went to the national Bangladesh museum, and we looked around and it was fab, we had our own mini tour guides (the students came with us, and spoke all about the artifacts at the museum) - so that was all really fun. Then we rushed back here and then we went to a dinner organised by the Brit sh Council, and we celebrated Dave's birthday with a MASSIVE cake (pictures tomorrow) and then we chatted to all the people we had met during the week, and celebrated being here in Bangladesh.