Wed. Sept. 15, 2010

Today, I heard back from Nancy Cole. She corrected a few DOB calculation errors of mine and spelled Meimose's name "properly" for me: Mimose. She also spelled Celsa's name for me and Huilu's name. She said that Maria whom she was referring to as having slow progress was not the same Venzuelan woman I had interviewed.

I wanted her to do the follow-up questions, but she said that she didn't have enough time. I thought of emailing her back and giving her a whole month since she pointed out that time was the issue. But I didn't...I also was going to ask her to answer an embedded question I had raised inside brackets in the transcript: Had she ever considered doing a "Participation rather than a Graduation" ceremony with the students? But I didn't...I still may though.

GOOD NEWS:
I thanked Nancy too for having Aida call me back (her second time). She said that Aida had lost my phone number. Aida called me this afternoon and I returned her call on the way home from work. I checked my schedule and the PE schedule for tomorrow and Friday. Then I called Aida back and left her a message re: meeting on Fri. at 9:30 am.

I also called Diego tonight from Myra's class and cancelled our Fri. 1 pm interview since he is really a Basic English student and is just starting in the English Cafe.

THIS MORNING:
I heard back from Thais (age 35, NOR learner) who agreed to help me as a liaison in finding participants in the next couple of months. I think she will be a good person to assist me! These events since Monday's visit to NOR have been quite encouraging for me.