It's all too sad :-(

Joyce, Vino, me and Anu
"Thank you, Anu, for all your help and encouragement over
the past year, thank you for your constant willingness to
volunteer, thanks for all your amazing photographs - so
many of which are shared in this blog.
You will be sorely missed!!
Thanks too for coffee out today :-)  Glad the
'flower urinals' in Dobbies made you smile :-)

It's a good job we didn't break any of Dobbies' mugs taking these pics!
Anu took the easy option, we would've needed the help of
half of TABLEtalk to use his full name -
Anurathan Pooranasandiran

World Cafe

This is my new friend, 'Nishyank the Ever-Ready'. I have formally given him that title because wherever he goes he's always ready with his trusty camera.  In the coming year I don't think a week will go by that I'll be short of photos to add to our blog :-) 




Here are several pics from the last two weeks at the World Cafe.

Anu, Vino & Joyce
Sadly today was Anu's last day at the World Cafe.
He's going to be sorely missed :-(

TABLEtalk ... Team work

The ability to work well as part of a team is an important skill for students to learn and our evening looking at this topic was both educational and fun!!

We started our evening by considering what the various aspects of a healthy, well-functioning team might be and each group came up with some fantastic answers.  Here's what I had prepared earlier in the day ...

Then it was time to put all those ideas and theories into practice. Each group was given a packet of marshmallows and some spaghetti and their task was to build the tallest, free-standing tower within a 15 minute time restriction. Of course, any team with a civil engineer in their group were lucky. 
See pics below of what each group produced ...

And the winners at 66cms were ...

 

Thanks Zanyar

"Hello Zanyar, I hope you take a look at the blog sometime.

We miss seeing you at the World Cafe; but I was soooooo pleased to receive the Kurdish flag to add to my

ever-growing collection. Thank you very much!"

TABLEtalk

Another great turn out at TABLEtalk!!

Chris, Jeri, Chiao, me
"Chiao, it's hard to believe this was your last TABLEtalk.
We are going to miss you sooooooo much."

Bring & Share @ Lynne's

I always enjoy hosting students in my home through our Sunday Lunch Scheme, but our occasional Bring & Share Lunches have a life all of their own. 

It's wonderful to see students of so many nationalities eating, socialising, laughing together and learning from each other. I take great pleasure in seeing friendships forming; many of which will stand the tests of time and distance.

 

 

As well as friendships forming, our Bring & Share Lunches are nothing short of an international food-fest.  If these photos don't make your mouth water, nothing will ...