Greetings all. Well I have another official announcement to make. Today was our final workshop of the consultancy. I do not mean that I won’t be doing instruction in the month or so I have left here. What I do mean is we have now fulfilled our major mandate by completing our trainings. 15 trainings and 9 provinces later we have provided some foundational expertise to provincial trainers in Moodle in the use and development of computer assisted learning. I feel very good and extremely ful...

That’s right folks, this week I was so blessed to see both of these animals. I was very surprised to see both of them right in the city. Near where I work at the NIE there are quite a number of large trees with vines on them. Well on Wednesday I noticed some activity in the trees. It turns out there were two monkeys playing in the trees. I had heard previously that they play in the trees around work but I had never seen them before. I was so excited I got out my camera right away. However...

Time for another weekly installment from your Norteño in Asia! Well this week was very eventful. Our main objective this week was to make sure our training happened tomorrow. The big wig at the MoE contacted the provincial IT managers on Monday and told them our criteria for participants. My team lead and I were a bit skeptical given the complexity of the bureaucracy here in Sri Lanka. We were pleasantly surprised to meet with our big wig and have him hand us a participant list on ...

So earlier in the week I turned on the light in by bedroom and guess what I saw crawling around on the wall. Any guesses? I was pleasantly surprised to see a gecko darting around on my wall. It was a good thing I heard about them earlier in the day or I might have freaked out. I couldn't believe how fast that thing moved. I tried my best to get a photo of it but I was no match for the speed of my Gecko Roman. Now I have a mascot! Anyway, things have gone good here for the first week. W...