The Wolfreton Rushanje Community
Partnership
Teachers visit Rushanje
September 2003
“Wolfreton Teachers visit our partner school in Uganda”
At the end of September Mr Derek Johnson and Mr John Scott traveled to Uganda to visit Rushanje School in southwestern Uganda. The visit was funded by the British Council and Wolfreton Language College and enabled the staff to cement relationships already formed over the last three years.
”After nearly two days of traveling we finally arrived at Rushanje late on Saturday night. It was already dark when we drove through the gate and the first thing we noticed was that our generator was being put to good use and there were lights on. The students were sitting waiting for us and as we got out of the car we were surroundedin a throng of excitement and joy. The moment was quite moving and we couldn’t move until we had shaken hands with each student. English is spoken in school and the traditional greeting is “how are you”? and the reply is “I’m fine how are you?”. We repeated this greeting many many times before we were allowed to unload our luggage
One day in our busy schedule
The next day was Sunday and a whole programme of events had been arranged. Some were specifically for us and others had been saved for our visit. As we had had a long journey we rose quite late and when we went outside we saw the school and its surroundings in the daylight for the first time. The countryside is extremely beautiful and green, the school is built on the side of a valley and is surrounded by hills. The headteacher Assumpta Turyasiimwa took us to our first official engagement.and we walked to church. Many schools in Uganda were founded by missionaries and have a local church nearby and it took us only a few minutes to get there. As we approached we were greeted by the sound of singing as the service had already started and we slipped in as unobtrusively as two europeans could do in
