SMK Negeri 3 School
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 17 Oct 2016 22:37
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SMK Negeri 3 School
Visit
 We pulled in through the school gates and
.........WOW, the whole school was waiting for us – all five
hundred and three students, who had excited been waiting since eight this
morning. More than one of our group had to swat down goose pimples, a few nudged
tears and had trouble swallowing over the lump in their throats.
 The traditional
welcome.
  Welcome dance and then we walked through a guard of honour.
  Mark
(Coomera) and Cherie (Grasshopper)
pose with the teenagers.
 Treated like rock stars, hundreds of
photographs. Bear had girls squealing with delight
when he kissed their hand.
   We settled in a room where the headmaster spoke in English, clearly thrilled to have
us here. He chatted afterwards. We were served iced juice and cakes as Cherie gave thanks on behalf
of the group.
 The catering
students had prepared a meal of noodles, fresh sauces, tofu, pineapple,
cucumber and delicious soup.
 Some students staged a
pose and the headmaster (three years in post) joined us. During his
welcome speech he told us that 80% of his students were girls and three subjects
were taught - Catering and Entertainment, Tourism and Travel, and Hotel and
Management. Everyone spoke a little English and were keen to
practise.
 Invited to visit classrooms as we fancied, we
went to thank the students who had prepared
lunch.
  The headmaster and the pupils were keen for us to visit ‘their tree’. It began life as a coconut that over the
years has been somewhat overgrown with strangler fig.
    Hundreds of poses later, we had to
go for a formal picture at the front of the school.
 Formal pictures done, there was time for a
few more poses before we had to leave, sadly.
ALL IN ALL SO MOVING
PHENOMENAL |