First School Visit

Hi everyone.  Just had the most amazing first school visit ever!  Took the moto taxi for 40 minutes at 6.45 in the morning up the mountainside.  We passed, piglets, goats, cows, children and many agricultural workers.  Many more were already beavering away in the well tended and heavily cultivated fields.  We passed two spectacular waterfalls and eventually rose higher and higher until we had good views of Lake Ruhondo.  There was a mist over the landscape.

When we reached top we came across Group Scholaire Remera – a primary school and first three years of secondary school with approx. 2,900 pupils.  We met with the Head and Deputy Head and then observed two lessons .  One maths lesson with P3 pupils (aged around 8 or 9) and then

a science lesson with pupils in P5 (aged around 11 or 12). 

After the school visit the Deputy Head invited us to lunch at the retreat where she lives.  She is a nun.  We walked for about 10 minutes to the retreat which has its own gardens and is situated in a beautiful position on the top of the mountain with wonderful views of the Lake and volcanoes below. 

Wow what a day.