You know that exhausted yet contented feeling you get when you’ve done something extraordinary like completed a marathon or eaten an entire family sized pizza on your own? (I’ve only had experience in one of these – you guess which!?) I’ve got that feeling right now because the Isabel Learning Network has just finished a hugely successful radio workshop in Buala.
The workshop was funded by the Commonwealth of Learning and facilitated by the fabulous Rita Narayan from the Secretariat of the Pacific Communities’ Regional Media Centre.
An eager group of participants from the FM stations and key stakeholder organisations like the police, church, government and NGOs learnt basic radio production skills and designed a series of community learning programmes on teenage pregnancy, rubbish disposal and domestic violence. Read more about it and check out some pics and audio here.
Casper and Naomi collect vox pops at the betelnut market in Buala.
This week also marks T-minus 6 weeks until my contract ends and I return to the land of kangaroos, Vegemite and one-seat majority governments. Like Keifer Sutherland in the show I’ve never watched, 24 hours just don’t seem to be enough each day to get everything done, so right now I look like this.
Ah well, what price glory…
Dear Claire
23/1/12
Cath here (we worked together at WIRE in 2007)…you are such a star and I have followed your travels with joy, laughter and awe! How will little Oz ever be as fun! Welcome back when you do come, altough I think it shouldn’t be long before you share your great talents overseas again…the world needs you!