http://blog.core-ed.net/gina My diary of work, play and other important matters Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:14:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't have a webcam on my handlebars like  Josh but today while happily minding my own business cycling into work, I experienced something very much like what he has described. A bus drove past me on my bike, pulled up to the bus stop cutting me off so ... http://blog.core-ed.net/gina/2008/03/bikes_cant_fly.html Eat your heart out Aussie defectors! http://blog.core-ed.net/gina/2008/03/bluff_oysters_at_sumner_beach.html Things have changed since I was last living in New Zealand. Before 2000, I recall that unemployment was a significant issue. This appears to be no longer the case. More than this, quality recruitment is a challenge for many organisations. You could say it's an employees market. I have had the ... http://blog.core-ed.net/gina/2008/01/education_for_enterprise_bridg.html taken from teara.govt.nz from their pages on the Royal New Zealand Ballet Told to me by my pilates instructor early this morning... We will help you make the impossible, possible... The possible, easy... The easy, elegant... That surely applies to anything worth doing well. It ought to become CORE's aim in our facilitation work. http://blog.core-ed.net/gina/2008/01/aiming_for_elegance.html Mt Cook on the way back from Cromwell I continue to work with all the materials I am made of, with feelings, beings, books, events, and battles. I am omnivorous. I would like to swallow the whole earth. I would like to drink the whole sea. Pablo Neruda (thanks Anthony) http://blog.core-ed.net/gina/2008/01/2008.html badly snapped on my mobile I was walking back from CDC today through the Square. There was a men's choir singing 'Ain't Misbehaving', swinging from side to side. People were milling around smiling and listening. I felt just one little bit closer to New Zealand; one little bit more at home. http://blog.core-ed.net/gina/2007/12/a_touch_of_christmas.html Last night while I was sleeping I dreamed - blessed illusion! - a fountain flowed inside my heart. Water, tell me by what hidden channel you came to me with a spring of new life I never drank? Last night while I was sleeping I dreamed - blessed illusion! - I had a beehive inside my heart, and from my old ... http://blog.core-ed.net/gina/2007/12/for_iggy.html January of this year saw CORE and Middlesex University embark on a partnership to deliver the Learning Through International Partnerships postgraduate module for UK teachers. We kicked off the module with a conference at the Middlesex campus. The students hooked up to me in Christchurch ten thousand miles away, via skype ... http://blog.core-ed.net/gina/2007/12/study_sees_teachers_promoted.html This little fellow is very cool. He was referenced in an assignment submitted by one of the teachers studying on the Learning Through International Partnerships module, through Middlesex University. I wonder why the creator chose a wombat? http://blog.core-ed.net/gina/2007/11/learning_through_international.html Grandparents and children Alma, who was kind to a little girl when no one else was And Number 1 Douglas Street, St Kilda, a place of: Afternoon teas in bone china cups and saucers Grandad's stories Perfect vegetable soup and cheese scones Jazz records and radio shows Nana's endless photos and memories in boxes and drawers and ... http://blog.core-ed.net/gina/2007/11/dunedin.html