Dear School Community, What is happiness? What do you mean when you wish good luck to someone who is leaving? What do we wish you, dear Cissa, who has decided to seek happiness elsewhere? A fulfilled life “is expressed in the joy of living and the deep sense of unreserved approval of life.” If that …
Nairobi, 15.03.2022 Dear School Community, In this year (2022) there will be a general election in Kenya. The elections will be held on the 9th of August 2022 during our summer vacations. Usually, the results will be announced about a week later. If there is no definite winner in the first round of voting, run-off …
Dear students, parents and members of staff, I would like to extend my warmest greetings to you all in the New Year, and wish you and you all the very best. May your resolutions, if any, be long-lasting, your plans come to a happy end and everything that happens in between be tackled by us …
Dear students, parents and members of staff, I would like to extend my warmest greetings to you all in the New Year, and wish you and you all the very best. May your resolutions, if any, be long-lasting, your plans come to a happy end and everything that happens in between be tackled by us …
Dear School Community, Every year in autumn, the jury meets in Stockholm to announce who has made such outstanding achievements in various disciplines and who will be honored with the Nobel Prize for his or her work. This year, the prize for chemistry went to the German researcher Benjamin List, and the prize for physics …
Nairobi, 14.10.2021 Dear students, dear parents, dear staff members, Our school year follows strict intervals, with learning and vacation alternating at regular intervals. Some people think: Well, one ought to be a teacher. Yes, or even a student. As always, we have deserved the vacations. The first interval is behind us and the autumn vacations …
Nairobi, 17.08.2021 Dear students and parents, We are starting a new school year. This is always exhilarating and exciting, for us teachers as well, in spite of the fact that we can look back on many years of experience in school. We hope that all of you have had a good rest, were able to …
Nairobi, den 20.8.2020 Liebe Schülerinnen und Schüler der Klassen 6 bis 12, liebe Eltern, herzlich willkommen im neuen Schuljahr – zusammen nehmen wir jede Hürde! Lasst uns das neue Schuljahr sportlich angehen, als Team auftreten, wie bei den Bundesjugendspielen oder dem Schwimmfest einander anfeuern, mitfiebern, für einander einstehen. Wir als Kollegium haben versucht, die Bedingungen …
Nairobi, 2 October 2020 Perhaps, possibly, maybe, soon, shortly, probably, anytime soon, presumably, apparently, all things considered, likely… The series could be continued. There are many words to express something indefinite, to say that something is just not possible. My letters to you, dear parents, and to you, dear students, are marked by contingencies. I …
Dear school community, Last night, in search of inspiration for this text, I read poems, familiar and unfamiliar, about saying goodbye, giving thanks, summer. The texts about saying goodbye are, how could it be otherwise, often sad, those about giving thanks mostly cheesy and those about summer very European. But it is always a balancing …
