Saturday, June 20, 2009

14-17 May (Thursday to Sunday)

Gulshera and Bo had taken an early flight o Stockholm, an appointment with the SA Embassy. A disappointment that the visa had to be collected at SA Embassy in Denmark - from the country of departure. However all paper work was completed with much help and kindenss from Embassy staff. We also had mentioned to the SA Ambassador about Black Sara and he did seem interested.

While the rest of the delegation visited Oland School and made presentation. They also visited a restaurant operated by the hotel school students. At 3pm Gulshera joined the delegation at Joppe's school. Jointly with the Ugandan delegation ( John and Stephen) attended a brilliant history lesson by Joppe.

Accomodation were with families, from Thursday until Sunday. Sizwe at Bo's home. Prenesen and Joe with Ingemu and Gulshera with Joppe's home for 2 nights and weekend with Ingemo. A further exposure to personal lifestyle, interesting discussions and time for oneself.


Friday 15- Visit to Lars Kagg Skolan. A fruitful meeting with Carl Peter Linden, the school principal. He presented the school's activities and programmes. We participated in lessons in Linda's class, visited the media centre- a project between this institution and ESayidi FET in Gamalakhe.



Saturday afternoon, back to Kalmer, meeting in town ( garden at Linda's accommodation) with Global Supplement students. Discussed future planning of the project both in Uganda and Port Shepstone. Gulshera joined Joe and Prenesen at Ingemo home.

Sunday: Morning shopping for family. During the afternoon,the entire delegation ( 2 countries) met again in front of Kalmer Castle and were led by our co-ordinators : Ebbe, Helen, Linda, Bo, Ingemu. A quick tour of the castle. Kalmar is an old city. Kalmar Castle is the visual image and symbol of Kalmar. There were many wars with the Danish. For further reference, read " The castle of Kalmarsund" by Anders Johansson.

A visit to the cemetery where we only located Sara's daughters grave. We were further exposed to old buildings of Kalmer. An afternoon trip to other time travel sites that have been reconstructed.

We returned to Kackelstugan that evening, immediately after dinner we participated in a mini seminar on Folkbildning by Gunnar. No Time wasted!

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