The Global Round Square Conference is not ‘a jolly’. Let me
be absolutely clear on that! The schedule is jam-packed with guest speakers,
discussion groups, meetings, service projects, trips, events and liaisons that
follow one another with absolute punishing rapidity, allowing almost no time
for rest or sleep. The organisers seem to feel that the opportunity to have
teenagers and teachers from so many different countries together for a week is
so unique, that wasting a single moment of it would be out of the question.
Comments such as ‘hope you enjoyed your holiday’ will therefore be given short
shrift on our return!
However, readers of this blog might be forgiven for assuming
that this was a leisure trip on reading of our experiences on Day Six in the
Kruger National Park…
For anyone not in the know, the KNP is an absolute massive
conservation area that is utterly crucial in the fight for survival of a number
of endangered (or potentially endangered) African species. For 24 hours, we were
lucky enough to go there and in between talks on illegal rhino poaching and
discussion groups on animal conservation, were
lucky enough between us to see elephant, rhino, buffalo, crocodiles,
hippo, giraffes, zebra and impala, to name but a few.
Tom Vignoles
Felsted School
Deputy Head (Co-Curricular)
Tom Vignoles
Felsted School
Deputy Head (Co-Curricular)
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