Standard 7 Graduation

The parents seating area

Well, I knew it would happen eventually…my event planning skills were put to use the other day for the Standard 7 graduation. It was as far as I can tell a typical Tanzanian event, which means nothing is typical or planned in advance! All of the children from Gyetighi Primary School

I spent the day prior to the graduation setting up our rec hall. The school had organized committees for everything, however no one had any plans. They changed the menu for 200 people the day before the event! Of course we had to cook everything on site, so just trying to find a space where we could put 8 huge fires and pots was a challenge in and of itself. We had a great diagram of the rec hall and how the flow would work etc… of course those all went out the window too, however somehow we pulled it off and it turned out great. The only hiccup if you could call it that was the morning of the graduation, they moved the ceremony up three hours, but didn’t feel the need to tell us! As I say all of the time….OH WELL! The show must go on...



Our Education Director Andi Trotter (right) and Holly who is a long term volunteer teacher

at the school

The kids who graduated have 4 months now until secondary school starts. All of the other children go to school everyday until the end of November when school is out for the year. They get 6 weeks off and then the new school year will start in January.