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May 2009
A wonderful group of Year 7 pupils (and some of their teachers) at Hendon School have been helping me to put together a performance adapted from the novel 'Fusion'. They are very special. Watch this space!

March 2009:
Follow the links:
Read about our Kenyan trip in 'Kenya Revisited' - an article written for the Rotary Club of Golders Green magazine.
Thank you for the warm welcome Rotary Club of Nairobi.
See new pictures of Gloria Hagberg and her daughter Paula.

Hi there wide world!

Welcome to my website which is the result of yet another scary leap into the unknown territory of the internet. Another Luddite (that's me, Alexia) bites the dust and another technowally graduates from, 'How do you switch this flaming thing on?' to 'Isn't technology wonderful?' After "Fusion" "The Cosmopolites" and "The Not Quite English Teacher" are in the pipeline. Watch this space.
By the way, if any of you acquaintances, friends, family, colleagues or ex students think you recognise yourselves, it isn't you!

Buy Fusion

Visit the bookstore at Trafford through the 'Buy Fusion' link above or ring Trafford in Oxford on
0845 230 9601
In Scotland, you can find Fusion at Waterstones Bookstore, St Giles Shopping Centre, Elgin.

£1 goes to the Pestalozzi Scholarship Fund when you buy the novel 'Fusion' written by Eliza Jane Goes and published by Trafford.

international village for students from developing countries

I am pleased to say that the Pestalozzi organisation are delighted to be associated with 'Fusion'.I cannot think of a more appropriate and worthwhile cause to support. Find out more about them from their website www.pestalozzi.org.uk or click on the link above.

They have sent us the following brief statement:

'Pestalozzi scholarships change lives. We are unique in selecting students from the developing world who are:
* from an extremely disadvantaged background
* academically exceptional and showing the
potential to succeed
* already giving community service
and CRUCIALLY
* fully committed to devoting their education and
expertise to those who need it most.
The gift of an education means that more young people can finally begin to break the cycles of poverty that have held their countries back for so long.'

A GOOD READ

Find out what happens to feisty, funny, red-haired Ella when she tackles the wee bullies and big bullies in remote 1950s and 60s Scotland and when she flies off to Africa, all alone, leaving her family behind. Can she find the answers to these big questions she's always asked herself - like 'Why am I the only one in the family with flaming red hair?' or 'Is it a good idea for people to migrate all over the world and squash each others' cultures?' Will she make a new life in Africa or somewhere else or will she go home to the safety and comfort of her old community in Scotland? What dangers will she come across and will she find romance?
Find out how she always seems to come across different kinds of bullies - and how she hates them.
Can she sort out the bullies? Can anyone do that?

See the SYNOPSIS under 'Learn more about the book.'

Who is 'Fusion' aimed at?

*ALL OF YOU LOVELY PEOPLE who have read this far and want to make the world a better place and care about what happens to humankind in the future.

* The young people I have had the privilege of working with, the vast majority of whom are full of youthful optimism and a remarkable intolerance of intolerance. These young people I came across were in Scotland, Africa and cosmopolitan London but I'm sure their like can be found across the pond and all over the world.

* Some of the other people who work or have worked with these youngsters.The most important of these people is Gloria Hagberg, who is very modest about how much she did to help around 5000 young Kenyans on their way to USA as scholarship university students. One of these students was Barack Hussein Obama Senior.

* Barack Obama and his followers including Oprah Winfrey. They will understand the significance of his success being more than a triumph for fusion. It would be justice.

* To those more discerning readers who are expecting either an easy read or a more highbrow read, I offer no apology. The book will probably satisfy neither group.
I don't pretend to have any answers. I merely tried to express some hope for the future for all of us.
However, I do hope I have stirred up a bit of controversy.

What do you think?

I hope 'Fusion' lifts the spirits of all you readers who live in a multicultural society and get as much of a kick out of it as Ella and her family and friends do.

Or, like the community Ella left behind in remote 1960s Balnahuig in Caithness,(unlike today's), are you scared of all this migration and cultural integration?

AFTER YOU'VE READ THE BOOK:-

Join the debate: 'Migration is the best thing that can happen to the Global Village.'
e mail your thoughts via the link below.

Join the debate: click here

The other point of view

Thank you to the gentleman with right wing views who is currently blaming me, or the likes of me, for all the ills in the modern world.
He is doing his best to crush the dreams and ideals displayed by Ella in 'Fusion'.
I might not be as hopelessly (or should I say hopefully) naive as Ella, as I have said before, but I am strong enough to stick up for her viewpoint and can clearly see that some of the views expressed by this person have no place in an inclusive and optimistic society which provides hope for the new generation.
In his world, which isn't Ella's world, fear, pessimism and divisiveness would continue without respite.