Top 5 Items

Well I've bascially packed and it all comes to 21.5 kg. What should I take to use the extra 3.5?
To encourage you all to read this and to get some comments going, I've decided to ask for everyones advice. So what are your top5 holiday items that you take with you.
Use the comments link below to add your thoughts - you don't need to join up - just select Anon.

Keeping up to date

3 weeks to go and my bags are packed. I'm allowed 25 kg but I seem to be taking more gifts, games, books and it equipment than clothes.

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Hope that makes sense.

Abi Adi College

A couple of images of Abi Adi I found on the web. On the right is where I'll be working.

SKWID

So training over. Am I prepared? Well at least organised. Lots more terminology and issues to consider: negotiation, participatory approaches, corruption, stakeholder, facilitation and networking.

For those who have not heard, I shall be jetting off on September 13th to Ethiopia to a teacher training college in Abi Adi in Northern Ethiopia (just south of Axum).