Just took Cindy to the airport and she is off on another of her “adventures”. This one is a two-week follow up to her previous trip to Russia to do some presentations and visit several schools. Cindy seems to have the right combination of technological and pedagogical knowledge, presentations skills, and personality to repeatedly be supported for these ventures. She tends to be very unassuming and unimposing unless some salesperson in a big box tech store or trade show vendor exhibit makes assumptions about what some 60-year old grandmother from North Dakota could possibly know about technology.
I have been waiting to write this post because with all of the illness about we both were somewhat concerned the trip would not happen. International travel with all of the equipment she carries, the multiple stops, and the sometimes “planes, trains, and automobile” transitions is exhausting beyond the point at which I would describe the experience as exciting. At least, I can now say she is no longer “in the house”.
The reference to the former USSR and/or a Beatles song may seem somewhat inappropriate (since Russia is different from the former USSR). I would have used a different lead to be more PC, but Cindy’s interpreter sent an email using the same phrase – “So, its back to the USSR?”
Stories and photos to follow – Cindy is not a regular blogger, but she does write some interesting material when she travels (With Eyes Wide Open).
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