On the Miracle and the Dream

The pre-Christmas period was full of many events at school. On December 20, there were meetings, quizzes and concerts. The day started with class meetings, after which all students took part in the school Kahoot quiz, during which they answered questions about the teaching staff.  At noon, the jury of the first edition of the KnIGA literary competition awarded prizes for the first and second place. In the afternoon, the music band led by Delphine Wartelle performed several Christmas hits, and all the participants of the concert sang the carol When Christ is Born… 

After the concert, students met with school graduates to hear about their experience. Former students of  2 SLO came to Solec from Cambridge, Oxford, Stockholm, Groningen and Żoliborz and talked about freedom and responsibility for their own time, openness to opportunities, the joy of travelling, and a world full of challenges. They encouraged this year’s high school graduates to consistently implement their own plan and at the same time to respond early to difficulties, take care of their psychophysical well-being and be in constant communication with others. They also emphasized how much their school experience had strengthened their academic agency, with particular emphasis on time management skills, writing under time pressure, and citing sources. They assured listeners that the pain of high school final exams would pass and that things would get better.

In the afternoon, the Headtecher Anna Sobala-Zbroszczyk and the Coordinator Tomasz Mazur extended Christmas and New Year’s wishes to teachers. The Headteacher recalled Albert Einstein’s thought about the choice of the path of life that a person faces: one is to live as if nothing were a miracle, and the other is to live as if everything was a miracle. She encouraged people to make conscious choices for the future. The Coordinator recalled a dream in which he was a substitute for a Polish teacher, and the topic of the lesson was to discuss a novel unknown to him entitled Trapped in a March Leaf. It’s not far from a school in a dream to the dreamed school where, as Tomasz Mazur assured, a teacher’s job is to give meaning to the world, shape it and change it for the better.

In the late afternoon, there was a meeting of the entire community of 2 SLO at Nowowiejska Street, and in the evening, an afterparty at Pardon To Tu with the participation of graduates. The celebration time has really begun in earnest.

(text: Beata Ciacek; photos: Beata Ciacek)