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Do you have a plan for the next move?

Matric, Exam, Teacher, School

Matric, Exam, Teacher, School

This week marked the end of the matric exams which brings different emotions to each one of us. When I wrote matric I was a very insecure 18 year old holding thumb that I would pass matric. One sure thing though was that on the 7th of January the next year my place was booked on the train to Bethlehem for military service. Until then I hardly knew there was a Bethlehem besides the one where Jesus was born.

A teacher’s view

Forward a couple of years and I was ... continue reading

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Becoming what I never thought I’d be

John Denver, Old School

John Denver, Old SchoolIn 1981 John Denver had a hit song written by Dick Feller called Some Days Are Diamonds. On the contrary the song also says that “some days are stones.”

Later in the song he contemplates –
“Now the face that I see in my mirror
More and more is a stranger to me
More and more I can see there’s a danger

In becoming what I never thought I’d be.

Dreams

When young we all have dreams of what we would someday like to be or would like to ... continue reading