This has been such a journey for me. On Sunday night I read over the directions on how to do this assignment. It is really exciting for me to connect with someone on the other side of the world that is in the same position I am. I started to email and within hours I started to get responses back. People that I never met before were trying to help me. How amazing is this? We can go halfway around the world and speak to people in different lands that we never met to learn and grow. Well with a lot of determination I meet this teacher named Robin and I email her. She write me back and says this.

Dear Jennifer,

I am 49 years old and I am the Head of the Early Childhood Development department at the Centre for Creative Education, in Cape Town. The CCE is a teacher training NGO that runs

Full time and part-time courses for ECD, B.ED and Eurythmy, based on Waldorf-inspired pedagogy.

I have been in this position for 3 years and my role is in training early childhood teachers (ages birth to 7) and overseeing the department as a whole.

We work out of a Waldorf curriculum but as we have an accredited training (government approved) we cover the National Curriculum requirements as well.

Before this I taught for 12 years at Imhoff Waldorf school in Kommetjie, here on the coast.

I was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, but grew up in Johannesburg. I lived in England for 7 years where I completed my schooling.

I have lived in Cape Town for 20 years. I have 2 daughters, ages 24 and 18 and live with my 18 year old, near Simon’s Town.

Regards,

Robyn Davis.

I told her I will write her back once a week to correspond with her. I can't imagine she is more excited than myself.

For my organization I chose the Association for Childhood Education International. They were established in 1982 and are focused internationally. Today they are advocates for children, families as well as teachers. They do have global news, blog and radio which I will share throughout the semester.