With holidays a pleasant memory it’s now back to work. We’re eagerly awaiting ‘field days’ at the end of this week. Imagine a Friday and Saturday with the whole school involved in competitive sport. We anticipate using the now levelled field for this, with each grass plant that was lovingly set in its position by hand now growing with vigour.

Although not so at Bingham, teachers in Ethiopian schools usually wear white coats. This is ostensibly due to the amount of chalk dust they need to fend off, as blackboards and chalk are often their only teaching aid. As I wrote last year, medical students at the Myungsung Christian College where I mentor a small group all go through a “white coat ceremony” as a sort of rite of passage into clinical medicine.