A Day at Bishops

On the Monday of our last week, all the exchange girls went to Bishops for a day. Bishops is the boys’ school that the exchange boys go to. We arrived at Bishops around 7:30 and we had to meet at Mr. Court’s office. Mr. Court is the exchange coordinator of Bishops and he was the one who took us up Table Mountain and went with us on the Cederberg camp. He told us that each of us had to follow a Bishops boy for the rest of the day and go to every class. A normal Bishops day starts with 15 minutes in chapel. A short service to place after which we went to tutor. For the boys it was very strange to see girls around in their school, so we were looked at all the time. My next lesson was Afrikaans. In Afrikaans, I was together with the Chilean exchange boy and one Chilean exchange girl. It was a nice lesson. For the rest of the day I didn’t really go to many classes, but I saw the whole school and the post-matric room were we stayed with the post-matrics during the break. It was a nice day. After school, we went to Cavendish with all the exchange people as a goodbye. We went out for dinner at an Italian restaurant. It was a lot of fun. During the whole day we were dreading the moment where we had to say goodbye to the boys. When the moment came, it was so sad. For now, we only had to say goodbye to the boys, but the girls would follow this week. It was a very sad goodbye and everyone almost cried. We walked back to Herschel where I had to wait for my host parents to pick me up.