End of the Term is Fast Approaching!!!

Things are getting busier and busier as the end of term is fast approaching ! – this week sees examinations and then next week is devoted to mornings only of graduation practice before the big finale on Saturday 10^th !

The examinations seem to be going quite well – it is the first real set of examinations for the new grade four teacher thus he had some difficulties in working out how to make an examination without multiple choice questions, but after the papers going back and forth from Nazareth to Addis a number of times it was all sorted out !!

Graduation seems semi sorted, although there is now a rush for the costumes etc and the logistics of getting over a hundred children in and out of outfits in a matter of minutes ! – still, I am sure that it will all come together in the end !!!

At the place where I work however things are not so smooth ! – although only 4 days from graduation, the cloth to even make the costumes isn’t purchased and the routines are in their embryo stages !!! The only thing that is keeping me going is the thought that although a disaster in my eyes, at least compared to last year it will be great since last year they had all the children sitting in the audience and then randomly made up the programme as they went along – even at one sage resorting to potato and spoon races to add entertainment !!!

However, I am getting rather frustrated with the job and their attitude – with the owner today saying to the director in front of me that I was a dictator ! – ( although people are always going on about how they would prefer to have things said to their face rather than behind their back, trust me, behind your back is a lot better !!! ) all I had done was ask for the cloth to be purchased and the piano that is currently plonked directly in the middle of the stage to be moved out of the way so that the children can get on the stage !! – when I am killing myself for the school and that is the attitude that you get, then you really do have to wonder if you are in the right place !!!

As a result, once again I am job hunting ! – the trouble is that if you leave Ethiopia then English Alive will be trouble since they need constant input ! – the answer really is to build our own school and then be totally self sufficient ! – so will try once again with a bit of fundraising – there is a lot of money and you never know – perhaps some of it will come our way ?!!!