Leigh in Azerbaijan

Looking at the country and education.

Entries from July 2007

Azerbaijan

July 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I never did record that I have accepted a Grade 5 teaching position at The International School of Azerbaijan.  I will be working within the Primary Years Program .  I need to be there to start orientation on the 9th August.  The school is in Baku, the capital city, and accommodation is provided in ex-BP [...]

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The birth of a grand-daughter

July 9th, 2007 · 3 Comments

We visited Freya and Graham Saturday night after a day at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas.  Freya had been working hard with contractions all day. After talking to their mid-wife, they went into the Women and Children’s Hospital at around 8pm . Tanya went into the hospital around 1am to [...]

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Home in Adelaide

July 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

It took two days to get home, including a 17 hour stop-over in Singapore.  I left school at 9.30am Wednesday and got to Adelaide airport at 7.30am Friday.
It’s cold, dark and wet, like an Adelaide winter should be, and one is forever thinking about lighting and maintaining fires in this Aldgate house.   Maybe I [...]

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