We've moved!
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Safety dance
After church, it was a lovely day and I decided to pop down the road one block to take a picture of the mosque on the opposite corner. No...
Football crazy, football mad
We’ve mentioned before that the lawn right outside our window is frequently used as a rehearsal space, chiefly by the choir. The...
Reflections VI - Mallingering
Shopping malls are very big in South Africa, both literally and figuratively. For some sections of the population, they are truly the...
Soupercalifragilistic…
The play “Soup” was the major focus of this afternoon’s rehearsal, a slightly bizarre tale with the message that, just like the...
Once upon a time
So here’s the poster for the show, designed by Simbarashe Mabaire, a Grade 10 learner here (i.e. about sixteen.) “Kwasuka Sukela” means...
Say a little prayer
Dominican Convent School is, of course, Catholic (small c as well), and this is an aspect which is by no means tokenistic. Although there...
The Da Vinci code
One of the huge bonuses of living and working at DCS is that we are regularly exposed to their wonderful choir. This afternoon we had the...
Think!
Today was Thinking Day, a cross curricular off-timetable exercise for the whole school, with the learners in mixed - age and gender -...
Reflections V – Art for art’s sake…
StartFragment When we told anyone who knew anything about South Africa that we were coming to Johannesburg, the automatic response was,...
I predict a riot ...
Yet another crazy, chaotic rehearsal - story of my life really - but we did manage to struggle from one end of Three Sisters to the...
Going to the chapel and we're...
The old chapel, dating from the time when the school was also a working convent, is apparently due for refurbishment (it would also make...
Lovely laundry ladies
As official members of the DCS boarding house, one of the things we are getting used to is the weekly laundry routine. Our laundry ladies...
I go swimming
After school finishes on non-rehearsal days, we (rather than I) often Uber to the open-air municipal baths in nearby Marathon St. The...
Freeze
It is amazing that we are now into the second week of March and the day that Viloshni Naidoo (Head of Performing Arts) went into hospital...
