We forgot to post this blog from a few months back!
A few weeks back, I had the honor and privilege of being chaperone on the grade 12 Geography/History field trip.
There were 22 students on the trip and I had a group of 5 boys, Gift, John, Gift, George and Mwinda. Watching them seeing the Victoria Falls for the first time and taking in the views for the first time were priceless. They were like children being allowed to enter a candy store and get whatever they wanted. They giggled, frolicked, gawked in wonder and awe at the immensity of the falls and the power of the spray. They took time to take in the beauty in small things like a solitary vine that had a bouquet of purple flowers at its end; watched a very ornate grasshopper open its very colorful wings; and because of the angles at which the sprays from the sun fell, the sun cast any number of single and double circular rainbows. To cap off the trip, nothing was more memorable that our times together of learning, eating food and fellowship.
I think for all that went, the time will be remembered for the rest of our lives. I am already feeling the parenting feeling when your child nears their end of the journey for you at home. But who are we kidding, they never end their times with us at home.
