A B.B.C. documentary about the impact of Cyclone Sidr three months on, I think I’ll return and use this later in the year. It will compliment well the Bangladesh resources that I produced on my return from Bangladesh.

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Thanks to the individuals 103 individuals that have downloaded the Cyclone Sidr resources, a special thanks to those that have said ‘thanks’ and Alan for his efforts in advertising them over the last week. I will leave them for another week.

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As part of my International study visit to Bangladesh, one of my targets was to produce an educational resource. This is now complete.

The resource is based on Cyclone Sidr and is aimed at Key Stage 3, it consists of six lessons and forms a complete case study.

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The presentation I gave to staff tonight about part of my experiences in Bangladesh, the quality is poorer because I’ve had to save the slides as jpegs and reinsert them. Slideshare doesn’t seem to like complex presentations sometimes . Not much information as I wanted to speak from personal experience, but some interesting pictures showing school life in the country.

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I’ve been following this story from last night, it seems strange to think that only three weeks ago I was stood in the capital Dhaka, we are waiting to hear news from our new friends in Bangladesh.Hopefully I will have time tomorrow to complete the third day of my journey.

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Day.2 Journeying into rural Bangladesh and the awarding of title ’Chief Inspector of Bangladeshi Toilets’

Part.1 can be read here.

After a decent night’s sleep in a comfortable bed, I have an early start at 6.00 a.m., luckily my mobile phone, which even better has a signal, wakes me up . Today we will to travelling into rural Bangladesh, 60 km outside Dhaka to Tanguil, we will visiting our host school which has a world reputation for providing vocational education. After a quick shower, spraying myself with insect repellent, dressing in light business wear, which is basically my College uniform, and packing my bag, I descend in the lift to breakfast.

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I wonder if it was the same ones who travelled back with me from Dhaka…

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Day One-  Travelling and Arrival in Bangladesh.

After a sleepless night, I rose early at 5.00 a.m. to make my final preparations for my visit to Bangladesh. My car arrived at 7.00 a.m. and we made a two hour journey to Heathrow, I was to meet the group at 10.00 a.m. at Terminal 3. Only one problem, I had only met the group once for forty five minutes in July!

After standing around for a moment, I saw that a group of people were congregating and greeting each other, after plucking up the courage, I went across and introduced myself. I was slightly worried about the check in, I was convinced that my baggage was overweight; I was later to find that it was, we would be changing at Dubai, the airport has strict conditions on the size and weight of baggage that people can handle. After checking in we then headed through the usually security checks, to my surprise I didn’t set off one alarm. I also had a random shoe check. I spent time in departures with an art teacher called Kathy; it was nice to speak to someone who was as scared and excited as me.

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I returned late last night from my International study visit to Bangladesh, I’m feeling very tired and run down at the moment. I’ve spent a couple of hours uploading pictures from the visit, I still have lots to upload and tag yet. I’m going to blog about the visit over the next couple of weeks, including the lessons I’ve learnt. Click on the image above to view the latest images.

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