Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Chadwick core value = honesty

When we were prepping the students to come to South Africa there was lots of talk about where to put our money in your backpack - how not to get your camera stolen or your valuables taken. Although we didn't explicitly state it, the messages we parents and teacher gave the children was that where we were going there would be dishonest people who want to steal from us. When we drove from Johannesburg to Pilansburg Quinn left his iPhone in the bus - we called the bus company an they are mailing it to us here in Cape Town. One dad left his nice blazer on our South African Airlines flight - they found it and are holding it for him in the airport. Alexandra left her phone, iTouch and all of her cash on her bed by an open window - a housekeeper saw it and brought it to the office to put in the safe.
I hope the students are seeing that even adults have stereotypes and judge groups of people - this is not to say that there isn't a lot of crime - but we have misplaced several of our most expensive possessions and all of them have been found, guarded and returned to us - we are learning.

2 comments:

  1. Great updates, Siri!
    Sounds like the trip of a life-time!
    So happy Ridge was/is included!
    Many thanks & looking forward to your future blogs!
    Hugs!!!
    (Could you plz give one to Ridge for me, even though he isn't missing me?!?!?)

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  2. Siri - Steve had a wonderful time and it sounds like Quinn is really enjoying the trip. Thank you!

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