Well, now that week 8 is almost gone, we can turn around and see the path that has taken us to where we are now. It wasn't really a long and winding road as I expected at the very beginning, and we may deem responsible of such light burden to Donna's clever and super well-structured tutoring. It all happened almost automatically, I would dare to say.

This week's heaviest load was having to draft our final project or plan, but again, the template given to us almost did it all by itself, and I feel extremely grateful for that, as I wouldn't even have known where to start if I had been left to myself. Donna also took care of the question of partnerships and provided two splendid partners for me, Yrina and Rita. The comments made by Yrina on my plan have been very useful and will allow me to improve it for the final report.

With regard to tools, I have been experimenting with a crossword wizard that resulted quite satisfactory (why do I say "quite" and not "completely"? Because it fitted only 19 of the 20 clues in the crossword square). The puzzle I created has to do with countries and capital cities, the latter being the clues to the former. Of course, I have a target class for such an unusual puzzle and that is my young students of diplomacy. If someone had to know all the countries in the world and their capitals, I am pretty sure they should be a professional diplomat.

Last but not least, of all the comments I read in our Nicenet discussion, Amira's was outstanding because of its clarity and the careful consideration of pros and cons of technology tools. Thanks Amira.