We started off by being divided into 3 groups: our group was based on the fact that the profile we had submitted talked of literacy and storytelling.
We then went to a beautiful lodge in the woods, and talked about the process, then had about 20 minutes to set up our stall - this is what ours looked like.
Then we went around all of the different clusters, and we each had 3 minutes to introduce ourselves: this was really overwhelming for us all as 3 minutes is almost no time at all!
After everybody had seen everybody else's presentations, we then had to sit and discuss who were wanted to put on our short list. Michael and I had enjoyed everybody's presentations, and were really happy with anybody as a partner, but we decided that the clusters from Nigeria (2 of them), Ghana (2 of them, and Rwanda (1 cluster) were particularly interesting.
After a short time talking about our shortlist, we were then told to go and start approaching people we were interested in working with. The District Education Officer from one of the Ghana clusters came straight away to talk to Michael, and the representatives from Uganda and Rwanda came to talk to me, followed by one of the representatives from Nigeria, and a headteacher from Tanzania.
After about 20 minutes of discussions, Michael and I decided to take ourselves outside for a few minutes to talk together. It was really difficult to know what to do - all of the people we talked to were very keen to work with us, and we didn't want to hurt people's feelings.
We were keen on the Rwandan cluster, but they wanted to work with Uganda, and we were incredibly fond of the Ghana cluster ... so we decided to talk to both the Ghana cluster and the Nigeria cluster, to ask if they would work with us ... and they agreed!
Ours was the first partnership to be set up for the whole conference, so we were historic!
Our partnership is now between Wales - Ghana - Nigeria ... and we are very much looking forward to working with them!
I'll replace the photo below with one with Michael in it once he lets me grab his camera to download his photos!
From left to right: Hakeem Ayoola Ajibona, Headteacher of Sanya Senior Grammar School (Nigeria); Folake Adetoun, LGEA (Nigeria); Samuel Owuo Adonti, MOE, (Ghana); Theresa Adjei, Headmistress of Kotobabi 13 Junior High School (Ghana), me, and half of Michael.
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