Middle East Travel Diary 2010
It was a welcome relief to experience cooler temperatures today. Although the forecast maximum temperature was 28°C, the temperature reached only 26°C with a relative humidity of 37% - heaven!
I contributed one of these sessions, presenting information on the selection procedures in Hong Kong, focussing on our new online application process, the references required and the aptitude testing we undertake. This provoked a lively and very satisfying session of questions, answers and discussion.
The internet security at the school seems somewhat over the top. Having spent almost an hour configuring my computer to accept the necessary passwords and protocols, several ports are still blocked, and one consequence of this is that the settings on my website have been changed and I will need to upload every page of my entire website again from scratch, a job that will take potentially about 48 hours with a good internet connection. However, that won’t be possible while I am here at the school because the internet is turned off in the rooms at about dinner time each night - and the port to upload my site is blocked everywhere except in the IT office. There is an article about the internet blocking in the student newspaper here at King’s Academy; while some filtering might be appropriate in this school setting, given the extreme nature of the blocking I think I would have written the article using much stronger language.
Anyway, these problems might help explain why uploading this diary will be a patchy for the next few days.
Friday, 25 June 2010
Day 8 - Madaba, Jordan
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