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I was sitting in class the other day with a few others, listening to Ghislain lecture about the benefits and how-to’s of a tree nursery. Goes without saying that I was not paying attention. (Funny how as annoyed as I get being forced to sit in class, I still think of going back to school, even of becoming a professor…) Anyway, as I was not paying attention, I caught a word from The Boss saying something about how a fence is necessary to keep the animals out, animals that I usually consider being kept in fences, such as sheep, goats, cattle, and pigs. Although gardeners in the States have problems with rabbits and deer eating young plants, usually the animals are kept in fences and the plants are free to roam as they please. But hey, who am I to say how to do things? Here, the rabbits are kept in cages.

Mmm... Water

Erika Kraus
2006-08-28 19:45:57

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I was sitting in class the other day with a few others, listening to Ghislain lecture about the benefits and how-to’s of a tree nursery. Goes without saying that I was not paying attention. (Funny how as annoyed as I get being forced to sit in class, I still think of going back to school, even of becoming a professor…) Anyway, as I was not paying attention, I caught a word from The Boss saying something about how a fence is necessary to keep the animals out, animals that I usually consider being kept in fences, such as sheep, goats, cattle, and pigs. Although gardeners in the States have problems with rabbits and deer eating young plants, usually the animals are kept in fences and the plants are free to roam as they please. But hey, who am I to say how to do things? Here, the rabbits are kept in cages.
I have been having good conversations with students and teachers too. There is plenty of time to do that, since the teachers are on strike. The teachers have reason to strike, and the students and their parents understand. But I can only imagine what would happen in the U.S. if all public school teachers, kindergarten-12th grade, went on strike. Not only would the students wreak havoc, out of joy, but also so would the parents, if only to get their kids back in school and out of their hair. I honestly don’t think that a strike of public educators, nation-wide, could last as long in the States as it does here; that is, sometimes as many as three days per week, week after week, and year after year, each year gaining a small fraction of the demands. Maybe parents and students don’t complain as much because they’re used to it. That’s just how the school system works here.
Education is different in Benin. To have finished a university degree is very well respected. I, on the other hand, admire even the young students very much. I have never met so many students so eager to learn, working hard everyday, really caring that they do well in every subject. ...