After a quiet and introspective weekend the VSO Cluster Conference approaches. On Wednesday I go to Addis Ababa to take part in a two day conference intended to bring together all the VSO vols involved in school teacher development and their Ethiopian counterparts. When we discussed the conference idea during the last VSO meeting in Feb, I agreed to facilitate & lead two sessions, on designing effective training and on exploring our future plans. After doing some literature searching on the internet (I can’t imagine surviving here without the net!) I’ve learned a lot about effective training and teacher development and started to crystallize the ideas and experiences I’ve acquired as a teacher and as a VSO vol. All I have to do now is produce a presentation and facilitate the rest of the session.