It is beautiful seeing my Grade 5 students again. Seventeen students (out of 48) make it to the first ever school trip outside Addis – to historical Lalibella.
With much of my teaching experience spent in Early Years, I usually
have a propensity to give the young uns additional nurturing and loving, but I have
completely loved my Grade 5s – responsible, respectful, generally smart, and who thoroughly embraced both my Student Council and the Mission and Vision projects.
There is a delighted shock when they spy me at the airport, and even more so when they find i am accompanying them. Plenty of hugs n kisses and questions I can’t really answer. They reliably inform me the school is now “boring” and demand my reinstatement forthwith. Even they know how crazy this school is - they tell me constantly.
fantastic views from the hotel
They are captivated by Lalibella and have a
host of questions for our Tour Guide, Mario. He is clearly impressed with their
astuteness and soon succumbs to their charms. He is invited not just to our last
supper – the hotel slaughter 2 sheep for a BBQ, but also to Wubi’s PJ party,
which he politely declines.
They love the churches and, like myself,
relish being out of Addis. They don’t want to return. But they have no choice,
and they fly out early. I stay on an extra day.
All Hugs
my smallest Grade 5 student - Hanna
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