Happy Ethiopian New Year! In Ethiopia they use the original Christian calendar, which places the New Year on September 12, and it is seven years behind the normal calendar. So it is now a new millennium and the year 2000 over there.
It’s also a new school year in Jamaica. Students started returning to school the week of September 10th. At KC the teachers reported on Monday while the students started checking in on the 11th.
We are looking forward to an exciting year at KC. While visiting with Principal Hemmings over the summer, I was amazed at how many calls he received from people trying to get their boys into KC.
The GSAT scores for entering students have been steadily going up. And last year KC was the best performing boys’ school in science, this despite deplorable science classrooms and labs. Principal’s Hemmings’ goal is to have KC vying for the position of top performing high school in five years.
In another new beginning, Bruce Golding was sworn in on September 11th as Jamaica’s 8th prime minister after the Jamaica Labour party defeated Portia Simpson’s Peoples National Party that had been in power for some 18 years.
We wish the new PM all the best in his new responsibilities. Our hope is that Jamaica, land we love, can realize its unlimited potential and take its rightful place as one of the leading nations on earth. May God act on the words of our national anthem and “give us wisdom lest we perish.”
