Sydney First Look, 11 Dec 12

Just got home from a whirlwind trip to Canberra and Sydney. In Canberra we met all day with folks from Australia AID (similar to USAID) to talk with them about evaluation in AusAID, what we offer in terms of coursework at CPE, and our upcoming capacity building work in the Philippines this year. Then we zipped off to Sydney for today's meeting with AiMedia. They have been working on a project to offer real time captioning of teachers' lectures to deaf and hard of hearing students. Both will be interesting projects I think.

No time for photos in Canberra - airport-AusAID-airport. I had an hour and the Google map on my phone this morning to take a wander around Sydney before breakfast and work. It took me a bit to figure out where THE bridge was, so I was pretty excited to see it peeking above the tops of buildings. The photos are me creeping up on the bridge, and what I found when I looked under it. 

No help here figuring out where the bridge is...

 

Big walkway along the ocean - lots of joggers and one friendly off leash dog.

Hey, those flags are on the top of the bridge!

Bridge towers

Biggering

Requisite long arm picture - good morning hair

Do you see the guy at the bottom? That'll give you a sense of scale!

Look what else I found!