What a week!

To start off....here is my card for this weeks dare. I have not taken part due to my course but I will get to that in a moment!

Kathy set this fab fab dare for the Daring Card Makers blog 20:20 vision. You must make a card on any theme but it must use 20 of something!

So this is what I came up with:
I used brown card-stock and cut out twenty flowers using a think cuts die. The rub on words are SI. The colours are a bit off I'm afraid!

That is the first bit of crafting I have done in ages and ages. The reason was me starting an intensive teacher training course so I could teach English to beginners! Well there have been some rather sickening developments on that front.

The four week course is accredited by an examination board called Trinity. There are two accreditation boards which are recognised worldwide for this TEFL qualification the other is Cambridge. You can get unacreddited courses however they are not well recognised and the basically to get a good job here or abroad it should be accredited.

So I signed up for my Trinity Tefl in January and have been sooo excited! The first week was well not great as the teacher who was new himself to this centre left after 3 days! He told us the reasons would become apparent and boy have they! So after a mish mash of a first week we really got stuck in and it was really hard work, alot of blood, sweat and tears. So we began week three and on Tuesday discovered to our horror that in fact the course was not accredited even though it was and still is advertised as such. WOW we were dumbstruck. The examination board were adamant that the accreditation had be withdrawn as of 31 December 2006!!!!!!!!

So there we 13 are in total shock. Basically all the effort we have out in is worthless as we have to start all over again and the work will not be retrospectively accredited! Plus it looks like we may never get a refund as the whole school appears to be a sham! the guys has people wanting money left right and centre.

We have tried speaking to him and he can talk for England but say nothing of significance. Basically he is a con man, and has our money, won't return it..oh I could go on and on and on but we feel like we have had the wind knocked out of us! We now have to find the money and time to do it all over again!

So we are looking to see if we can get a reputable establishment to accommodate those of us who still want to continue. It is terrible there are those who have come from abroad, and those of us who have stopped work and hoped to be working my March!!!!!

Well that's that...I will keep you informed as it is quite a saga and we will be seeking legal redress!!

So that's me..on a plus side there are some projects I would like to get done so hopefully more crafting time.

xxSaffa