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		<title>The Stick-Flick Approach</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so the final term of the school year has arrived. Last year, at our annual end of the year meeting in Vila, at the time when Silas died and came back to life, the government offered its first allocation of money towards kindergarten education. This money, we were told, was to up grade 35 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noroomfordinosaurs.wordpress.com&blog=3597033&post=56&subd=noroomfordinosaurs&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mango Kindy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so the final term of the school year has arrived. Last year, at our annual end of the year meeting in Vila, at the time when Silas died and came back to life, the government offered its first allocation of money towards kindergarten education. This money, we were told, was to up grade 35 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noroomfordinosaurs.wordpress.com&blog=3597033&post=54&subd=noroomfordinosaurs&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the UNICEF workshop, many of the teachers having been talking about the concept of children’s rights, and in particular the children’s right to education. This is the idea that children should be allowed to attend school, whether or not the parents can pay the school fee. We are thinking of holding a meeting or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noroomfordinosaurs.wordpress.com&blog=3597033&post=52&subd=noroomfordinosaurs&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chief Jack</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I spent the whole day in a UNICEF workshop about child protection. Its terribly draining to sit and listen to people talk about sexual abuse towards young children. It did strike me as odd, that in Vanuatu the traditional punishment for a first time offender is ‘to say sorry’. After this, the second time, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noroomfordinosaurs.wordpress.com&blog=3597033&post=49&subd=noroomfordinosaurs&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Triplets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At study group for the certificate of early childhood, I read over an interview with a parent of seven month old triplets. I love reading these interviews, because they are questions from local teachers asking parents about how they are raising their children. This interview, said that the mother was expecting two children, and when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noroomfordinosaurs.wordpress.com&blog=3597033&post=47&subd=noroomfordinosaurs&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Instalment 29; Mustard Shorts Man and some rather gigantic rats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My yoga teacher, and his yoga class have moved out by the airport. When walking to yoga now, it is obligatory to walk through the area known for its gigantic rodents. Imagine the biggest rat you thought possible to be in existence, fatten it up a little, until it is almost the size of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noroomfordinosaurs.wordpress.com&blog=3597033&post=45&subd=noroomfordinosaurs&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Instalment 28; Shiny new plastic bags</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like ice melts in hot fat, Santo too is changing rapidly. For a start a new phone company has moved in, the newest and biggest thing that has happened to the island in a long time. This phone company, not only works within a two-minute radius of the town centre, but reaches every corner, of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noroomfordinosaurs.wordpress.com&blog=3597033&post=44&subd=noroomfordinosaurs&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Instalment 27; Fatfat Tumas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Thursday study group we learnt about obesity. Obesity in Bislama is ‘fatfat tumas’ (fat fat too much). Most people in Vanuatu are obese, most women anyway. Obesity is becoming one of the biggest health risks, next to malaria. This is mainly because the consistently available food here is taro, sweet potato and island yam. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noroomfordinosaurs.wordpress.com&blog=3597033&post=43&subd=noroomfordinosaurs&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Installment 26; Locking them away</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Another Thursday study group has passed. This time the lesson was on ‘disability’. The question for the student’s essay was ‘do you think people with disabilities should be locked away where other people can’t see them?’, ‘Why or Why not?’. Agnus and Alice were not sure. Alice said that her sister has a boy with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noroomfordinosaurs.wordpress.com&blog=3597033&post=41&subd=noroomfordinosaurs&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Instalment 25; Did anyone see where my island went?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had an epiphany. Maybe I didn’t, I’m not really sure what an epiphany is. I had a moment of pure joy and sadness, a change in perception. Agnus and Alice came to my house for study group. Agnus has never had a chance to study before, never read anything really about the world, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noroomfordinosaurs.wordpress.com&blog=3597033&post=40&subd=noroomfordinosaurs&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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