My grateful thanks to all who came to the Bulawayo parents’ meeting – it was well attended and we had such positive feedback from so many. One parent felt that everyone should know what I had to say on academics and I shall endeavour to get it all down on paper and send it out via the cells.
We
look forward to our KweKwe and Harare meetings next week.
Please could I appeal to parents, prospective parents and
interested parties to attend.
The
new housing projects are going ahead and we are delighted with the
current progress.
All boys are now
into exams, so there has been very little else happening around the
College.
Prefects for the
new year will be announced at House Suppers tonight – this is an
exciting time for the boys at the top of the School.
The L6 boys went
on a Leadership camp conducted in the Matopos by an Old Boy, Danny
Tanser. The course
was a great success and the boys themselves said they learnt an awful
lot.
I attended the
Whitestone speech day on Thursday night where Jameson Timba, the
Chairman of ATS, spoke. He
is, of course, the man who has turned the Education Bill around.
His theme spoke of a young Zimbabwean man who did not know what
to do with his life, even though he was well qualified, and he was ready
to give it up. His
Mother then took him into the kitchen where she put three pots of water
on to the stove. When
they were boiling, she put carrots into one, eggs into the other and
coffee beans into the third. She
explained to her son what happened to the carrots – they went in hard
and firm and because of the heat, ended up limp and weak.
The eggs went in with a soft interior, but a hard outer shell.
They came out hard, stiff and unyielding..
The coffee beans, however, went in to the hot water and turned
that water into a coloured liquid with a lovely aroma and the liquid was
great to drink. She
then asked her son which one the son wanted to be.
The following day he came to her and told her how he was to set
up his own consultancy business.
We all need to be
coffee beans in these difficult times, turning adversity our way and
being better and stronger because of it.
Thank you,
Jameson, for a great story and wonderful work on our behalf on the
Education Bill.