A slight delay

With any great plan comes bumps in the road.  Sometimes they are easy to navigate around, but other times you have to stop and recalculate your route.  It's a hard lesson to learn, and one that doesn't necessarily get easier as you get older.

I was supposed to be in Argentina a week from today, but that's not going to happen.  Because there have been a series of teachers' strikes in the province of Argentina that I was to visit, schools have not yet opened for the year.  If there are no schools in session, a teachers' exchange cannot occur.  Add to that the instability reported from the strikes and IREX has decided that I should not be going.

I can't debate the logic, but that doesn't help the disappointment!

The plan right now is to wait and see what the situation is at the beginning of June.  Hopefully, I can travel then.  If that is not possible, they will look into sending me someplace else.  I just hope things settle quickly in JuJuy, and the trip can be rescheduled soon.

Getting ready

As I sit swamped with my own student research papers, I'm delighted that one of the workshops I will be running in Argentina will be on teaching research writing.  After a few panic attacks, we settled on something comfortable for me, and something that I feel I have worked down to a nuanced science.  It's always a little bittersweet when this unit ends, so I will be happy to revisit it in April.

My other teaching assignments are in US History (early colonial period) and in Didactics, which I'm still a little bit fuzzy on.  Time for some digging and talking to my colleagues about the best methods for that one.

Less than a month until I leave!  It's approaching so quickly I hope I can get everything done on time.