May 09, 2006: Gwen's overnight

Tomorrow Gwen won’t be coming home as the fifth years at the school in Kolind are coming to Nimtofte and they are all going to sleep on the floor of the gym until Thursday. This is all part of a long term effort to get the year cohort to get to know each other before the Nimtofte cohort go over to Kolind in a year’s time. There the year will be mixed up and divided into about three classes.

Anne is going to Germany for 3 days starting  off tomorrow evening for yet another EU meeting. We run the virtual meetings for this project. Meanwhile in Grenaa the two course centres are going to merge. This is apparantly very much an opportunity rather than a threat. We shall see. Today we had a long session where the two staff complements were meant to get to know each other prior to working with each other from August on. Come to think of it, this sounds very much like Gwen’s event on Wednesday except that we were allowed to go home after dinner!

The daffodils are in full flower at Grenaa, the temperatures are high at the moment but many trees still don’t have leaves so it feels a bit strange to be sweltering under bare trees.