Thoughts from The Gambia

At half-term, 20 students from the senior end of the school visited our sister school in The Gambia for a week. Lower Sixth Former Jamie Wilson reflects on the experience:

The first thing I realised when I got to The Gambia was how friendly and happy everybody is. This was obvious from the moment we stepped into the airport where there were lots of porters to carry our bags for us and all of them wanted to speak to us. The friendliness was also evident around the hotel where everybody said ‘hello’ as we were walking past. We were also told many times how we were welcome to the Gambia and ‘Smiley Coast’ as the locals called the area we were staying in. This is in complete contrast to here in the UK where we don’t say ‘hello’ to anybody that we do not know, never mind stop and have a 5 minute conversation.