All change !

Although a yearly calendar is given out by the authorities a few weeks after school has started, stating when the exams have to be and the end of the school year, which I have always taken as rigid and unable to be changed no matter what. However, now realise that I was wrong since the school supervisor turned up a couple of days ago to inform us that the results of all pupils needs to be submitted on Friday 28^th June.

The only problem with this is this Friday is the last day of exam week ! – it is not possible to have any results until the exams have been taken !

As a result, the entire end of the school year has had to be dramatically shifted – with exams now starting next week and our end of year graduation being held an entire week ahead of schedule ! It is strange how one minute you are planned and ready – you have timetabled your activities so that you are a few days ahead ( in case of power cuts – pretty bad at the moment since it is the very end of the dry season ( mid September – mid June ) so the water levels are very down and thus power is scarce until the rains start again ) – and then bamm ! – you are suddenly behind !

Our fluffy toy collection having a good wash ! 

The strange thing is that I am the only person worked up about this dramatic change – everyone else simply takes it in their stride , instantly accepting that things have altered and calmly and rationally acknowledging that nothing can be done about it ! This is an excellent Ethiopian approach which makes often less than perfect situations acceptable – I still haven’t got over the fact that with only one more day of classes we are still waiting for the compulsory government books to be finished and issued !  - oh well, perhaps next year ?!