Hello Ndey Bajan and Saloum Jimbara !
I am so happy to know that you are enjoying your stay in the UK and
finding it very useful in your studies. I am a teacher in the UK (of
much younger children - ages 4 to 7yrs), but for many years I have been
travelling to CRD North Bank, staying in Manna Village. I know many
people in Jangjangbureh, Jarumeh Koto, Brikama Ba, Yorro Beri Kunda,
Sankuli Kunda etc.
Like you I am travelling to The Gambia on July 23rd (for a 3 week stay,
during which time I shall be going to CRD for 2 weeks.) I hope it will
be possible to meet up with you, either at the airport in London, or
back in your home towns, or even in Armitage if you will be there !).
I know your school and many of its pupils - it has a very fine
reputation.
With greetings from
Susan Rowe
Michael Carrick wrote:
>
> This message is from two Armitage Senior Secondary School Gambian
> students who, together with the school matron are guests of North
> Bromsgrove High School near Birmingham England for three weeks. If you
> have time to send them a reply I am sure they would be very pleased.
>
> I should emphasise that in their kindness they state things we have
> done for them, and omit all the things they have done for us. We are
> always delighted, even embarrassed by the hospitality we receive when
> visiting The Gambia, because we know we cannot equal it when we have
> guests here. (The typing errors are my fault not theirs!). Mike
> Carrick.
>
> Message:
> Asa la mala kum to our fellow Gambians and friends.
> We feel glad to send this greeting to members of Gambia-L.
> We are from The Gambia. We are two students and a school matron from
> Armitage Senior Secondary School, Janjang-Bureh: Saloum Jimbara, a
> school boy from Bandang and Ndey Bajan a school girl from Brimam-Ba
> with Anna Marie Gomez the school matron. We are on an exchange visit
> with our link school North Bromsgrove High School in England. We
> arrived in England on Friday 2nd July 1999. We are here for a three
> week visit and return back to The Gambia on July 23rd.
>
> We have a lot of experiences since we arrived in England. As you
> might know the way of life in The Gambia is quite different from that
> of the first world, from countries like England. But all the same,
> because of our good intelligent and steady hosts we are gradually
> adopting their way of life without constraint.
>
> The link between the two schools is very important. It is because of
> the link that we learn the culture of one another. And one of the
> most important things is that the benefit is not just for ourselves,
> but also for our schools. At Armitage we have a Secretarial School
> which was equipped through the assistance of the link, by providing us
> with typewriters and now we are beginning to get one or two
> computers. In each year we have 12 students attending it. Our school
> was the first school to have a computer in the whole Division.,
>
> The third important thing is the gifts which our school got from NBHS
> - they are very useful to us, e.g. books, sports equipment, cooking
> equipment, pens and so on.
>
> Saloum
> Jimbara and Ndey Bajan.
>
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