Lebeko Poulo 's Space - Academic and Personal!

Yesterday I did my dry run for the ZA WWW Applications Conference 2009. I didn't do too bad after all. So I will be presenting my first paper at a conference and yes! "For the first time"!!! Well myself, Gina ( MSc student), Marwan ( MSc student) and Hussein (our supervisor) wrote a paper based on our honours project  titled " Wordbank - A Language Preservation Portal" **sigh**, YES its got some memories, if you know what I mean. Anyway the paper itself was titled "Preserving Endangered Languages Using a Layered Web-based Archive", gosh what a long name! So I hope all will go well in Port Elizabeth next week when I do my presentation on Thursday.... wish me luck.... ;-) Right now, I am invigilating a first year class (CSC1016S) writing their Practical Test on "recursion in Java", poor things, I hope they all get a 100% because this is their last chance. :-)

Today I am running around like a headless chicken putting up my MSc proposal presentation together. I have a dry run at 3pm tomorrow. The actual presentation is coming on Thursday, 20 th August 2009. I have one of those stage frights and I hope to be OK this time, OR rather I can't wait for all of this to come and go. :-) So I really need someone to wish me luck on this one.

hi all, First of all thank you for taking your time to read my blog. Lebeko Poulo is the 6 th in a family of 8. Yes, I come from a very big family but I love it. There is so much to learn in such a family and believe it or not, you really get educated. Anyway...... my parents, Mr. Taelo Poulo (deceased, may his soul rest in peace) and Mrs. Mmakutloano Poulo (nee Falatsa) , were born and bred in one of the smallest villages of Morataleng and Ha Falatsa respectively, in Southern Lesotho. I have been unique in several ways in my family. I have always loved my siblings (despite those trying times when you feel like "shooting them") and I have always been a school enthusiast even though my family hardly ever studied, but many thanks to them for all the support. I was born and grew up partly around my parents' home and most of my life away from home..... Being from a small village, I could ONLY go as far as Grade 5 and then had to leave for another school in the town...