The Jeppe community opened its doors to Northwood

 

The Northwood winter sports exchange has come and gone and the Jeppe families who opened their homes to our visitors were once again amazed at the manners, courtesy and gratitude of the Northwood boys.

The consensus was that the parents were thrilled to host them, and that the boys made new friends that they would really like to meet up with again in the future.

We get to do it all again on 4 August when Durban High School will be our guests. We ask our community to remember that date, and to take in some of the visiting boys once more. Speak to a family who hosted some of the Northwood boys and you’ll hear that it’s an uplifting experience.

Here are a few comments from Jeppe parents who hosted Northwood boys:

I would like to comment on the behaviour and manners of the boys we hosted. They were exceptionally pleasant and really nice upstanding young men. Please forward to Northwood that these two gentlemen carried themselves with dignity and respect.

We had three boys who were very engaging, great manners and just plain awesome. After dinner, we all sat in the lounge to watch some TV, with being so cold, we offered them all a blanket - and when Dean brought out the "Jeppe blanket" they suddenly declined, it was such a good laugh. All in good spirits.

Thank you for trusting our family again, it is an honour to host these boys, they were very well mannered. We will do it again .We had a braai and enjoyed to hear their conversations about sports .

This was our first time doing this and it was an incredible experience and will do it over again. We hosted three grade 11 boys from the soccer team. I must commend the Jeppe Boys for such great hospitality towards their peers who they played against in a soccer match but saw them as brothers.

And some letters of thanks from the Northwood people:

Always a wonderful fixture against Jeppe. Thank you for hosting our boys! May the friendship between these two great schools continue to flourish!

As one of the staff from Northwood who had the privilege to be hosted by Jeppe this weekend, I'd like to congratulate Jeppe on an excellent weekend. And every single gentleman from Jeppe showed impeccable manners, something the school can be enormously proud of. Thank you to everyone involved. A great school indeed!

Thank you so much to each family for hosting our boys this weekend. As parents we are truly thankful.