Cape town 25 February 2014. The first day at school, was already an eye-opener. The school was really big, with a lot of space around the school. We came in and the greetings were already warm and kind. The principal, Mr. Robertson, showed us the school. I noticed he is very proud at his school. Everytime he told something, he was full with passion about the school, the learners and the staff.
The first experience in the class was very different from what we are used to. When the principal came in all the children of grade 6 had to stand and say: "Goodmorning Mr. Robertson". He told the children that Ms. Brinksma will teach here and that they had to give a big hand. I felt really awkward about it, but the intentions were kind.
As I got to know the teachers and the school, they made me feel more at home. I was really excited to work there and learn a lot.
We were in Cape Town for 12 weeks. We had a 10 week internship. Every week we were at school for four days. Because I wanted to be flexible, every week had different days to go to school. One week is was there monday till thursday or an other week was monday, wednesday, thursday and friday. We came at school 07.30H and went home after 3 o'clock. Also we had to prepare our lessons during the evenings or the one day off.
First the cultural difference is a big part in South-Africa. They have a different way in there history when you talk about the cultures. 'Apartheid' is still a thing. White and coloured are not seperated anymore, but you still see a lot of differences. In school they were school uniforms so they don't have differences. We don't have that in Holland, but we all live tolerated more now next to each other.
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