We are ready to start school again after two weeks of holidays for the Muslim holiday,
Eid and the Hindu holiday,
Durga Puja. They are both the most important holidays each in their own religion so it has been a little like double Christmas.
On Sunday the children come back. We start by celebrating the October Birthdays - there are many of them. We have the tradition at the school, that we celebrate all the students and teachers whose birthday are in a month on the first Sunday of that month. This Sunday is the first school Sunday in October so we are getting ready by preparing birthday cards, snacks, a devotion that both four and sixteen year old children will understand and perhaps a couple of games with all the kids. With 96 children in the school there are always lots to celebrate.
During the coming weeks our two new teachers;
Prodip and Cornelius will start teaching. It will be a steep learning curve for them, and hard work for several of the rest of us.
We will also prepare for exams in the last week of November and our Christmas celebration in the first week of December.
Other tasks and challenges are work on promoting teachers into leadership of our Primary and Upper sections and into specialising in various subject areas.
One teacher is in need of a new visa - urgently; we praise God for our Personnel department and the staff at our Dhaka office who do the hard work of getting the paperwork done.
We also welcome Ken Ford-Powell and his family to Bangladesh. We hope Ken will get a work permit and visa so that he can start working at LAMB School next year after language training in Dhaka.
Over the holidays some of us went on a trip to Dhaka. One of the places we went was the Martyrs' Memorial at
Savar. That is where the picture is from. It was good to remember the people who suffered and died for the independence of Bangladesh. Pray that the people here will be free indeed.
