The Weekly Peponi Post 29 September 2020

29 September 2020

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The Weekly Peponi School

Headmaster’s Assembly ‘From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; ’ As I walked through an area of Nairobi over the weekend, I came across a new pollutant that months ago would not have been seen. A number of discarded face masks were polluting our water ways and our streets. The human trait of carelessly discarding something so that we can’t see it has taken a new twist.

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Recipe from Chef Silvester Eggs Mimosa Page... 8

Perfect Place for Animals in the Masai Mara Page... 7

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Headmaster’s Assembly Good morning.

Last weekend Jews celebrated their New Year - Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the civil year. It is also the traditional anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve which is described in the first two chapters of the Hebrew Bible.

Adam and Eve, according to the creation story of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman. They are central to the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors and this is central to the beliefs of those who follow Judaism and Islam, as well as Christianity.

I think that the idea of marking the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve is not only a wonderful one but a poignant reminder of our creation. As a biologist, I read the creation stories metaphorically and not literally. It is clear that over the two thousand years since its writing, the story has been adapted, elaborated and in the extreme has lost much of its original meaning.

Population geneticists more recently have added to story and have made inferences about the allegorical Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve and suggest that a single first "Adam and Eve" pair of human beings never existed. However, when you read the book of Genesis there is no doubt that the author or authors wanted to emphasise the supreme importance of every human life. And I don’t think that anybody would suggest that this is not central to any view of our humanity. Both man and woman are made in God’s image and likeness, and God looks at them and says that what he sees is not just good, but very good. But hand in hand with the privilege of being the pinnacle of God’s creation, comes the responsibility. In the same story, God entrusts the whole of creation to the wise stewardship of woman and man. Over the weekend, with the news from around the world about fires, floods, land-slides and a general destruction of natural habitat, it does not seem that we are acting like very good stewards.

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The English natural historian and tv presenter, David Attenborough, has recently released another one of his outstanding programmes, and I recommend that you all take the time to watch it. His programme, A Life on Our Planet, provides its usual spectacle of our natural world but it shows the damage that we, us, you, are doing to the world. He finishes the programme with optimism. He lets us know what we can do to change the direction and course that our planet is currently taking.

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Below is the Trailer for David Attenborough's A Life on Our Planet. https://youtu.be/ad7mGfM-6kg

As I walked through an area of Nairobi over the weekend, I came across a new pollutant that months ago would not have been seen. A number of discarded face masks were polluting our water ways and our streets. The human trait of carelessly discarding something so that we can’t see it has taken a new twist. It is perhaps appropriate that this new New Year, this Rosh Hashanah is also viewed by our Jewish friends traditionally as a judgement day, a day where good deeds are weighed against bad. It’s a sober reminder that, as Jesus said, “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.”

I think it is time we all begun to take, whether Christian or not, the words of Christ more seriously and begun to view our role in this world as one with responsibility. Look around you and ask yourself how can you help to change the direction of our planet destruction and become the force of good that Attenborough has challenged us to.

A new pollutant that months ago would not have been seen

A Song to End this Assembly So Will I - https://youtu.be/GfVd5x9W1Xc This song is about God as an artisan, this song is about God as an artist working his masterpiece, a work of art called love. And it began with creation and it goes through the whole story where it was finished at the cross. And now it continues to be rebirthed and restored in and through us here and now. The whole picture is response.If the stars were made to worship so will I. You know if creation bows before You so will I. If it all exists to praise You so will I. And the more we thought about it there was just endless metaphors and pictures and things that came back to this response. And maybe nothing better than if You laid Your life down, if you gladly chose surrender so will I. And if You left the grave behind You so will I. To me that’s everything, the entire story of why we’re here and our purpose and what it means to follow Jesus and live for Him. – Hillsong United

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Prayers In the beginning, Lord my God,

And all Your Words were beautiful, And all were good.

You alone existed: eternally one

From each of these Holy Words

Yet pregnant in the fullness of unity.

Arose a prayer of praise and adoration

Full to overflowing, You, Father of All Life, exploded outward In a billion bits and pieces.

Your word became flesh, Whirling in shining stars, shimmering suns

To You, their Creator And Wondrous Womb.

'Praise You," rang out the redwood, "Blessed be You," chimed in the cedar, "Holy are You," prayed the prairie grasses.

From all four corners of this earth,

And in genesis glimmering galaxies.

Rose up a chorus of perpetual adoration.

You, my God, spoke

O Sacred Spirit, O Divine Breath of Life,

And Your Words became flesh:

Unseal my ears that they may ever listen

In sun and moon, earth and seas,

To Your continuous canticle of creation;

Mountains and gentle hills,

Open my heart and my whole self,

Rolling rivers and silent streams.

To sing in harmony with all its many voices.

You, my God, spoke And Your Words became flesh: in winged bird, in deer and elephant,

Teach me to commune with Your first Word made flesh, Your creation, That I may be able to unravel the wondrous words

In grazing cow, racing horse, and fish of the deep.

Of Your second Word made flesh,

Your Words, so unique and so varied,

Through whom, with whom, and in whom,

Filled the earth also with rabbit, squirrel and ant.

I may see myself as another Word of Yours made flesh,

Jesus,

To Your glory and honor.

AMEN

Father God, we thank you for creating us in your image and likeness, and endowing us with the wisdom, intelligence, creativity and skill that we need to nurture our planet and our society. Help us to live up to our high calling as the sons and daughters of the great Creator, and to take our responsibility of caring for this world and its people as you would. Amen.

Mark Durston Headmaster

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Still Life

Mara Stolarow 9A

Aarav Patel 9A Beatrice Wakhu Head of Art

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Musical Joke of the Week Did you have any treble catching that bass?

How does Bob Marley like his doughnuts?

With jammin’!

I can’t believe they cancelled Vivaldi after just four seasons…

‘Don’t fret!’ said the guitar to the violin I always wanted to be a Gregorian Monk… but I never got the chants

James Laight

Director of Music

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Perfect Place for Animals in the Masai Mara Jay Shah (Upper V)

This photo shows a leopard and its baby cub. The photo explains how the leopard protects its cub and it sacrifices its own life for the cub. The cub is in a “perfect place� with its mother living happily.

This leopard is staring at its prey keenly and finding the right time to attack. It shows how focused and ready the leopard is, and ready for its meal. The detail on its body is perfect and has a small but strong physique.

These cheetahs are brothers, and they just finished eating a wildebeest. You can tell this by the blood on their mouth and how they are panting after a long run.

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Recipe from Chef Silvester Eggs Mimosa Mimosa describes the fine yellow and white grated eggs in this dish, which looks very similar to the flower of the same name. The eggs taste delicious when garnished with black pepper and basil leaves. Grated egg yolk can also be used as a garnish for a variety of other savoury dishes, such as sauces, soups and rice dishes.

Ingredients (Makes Twenty) 12 eggs, hard-boiled and peeled 2 ripe avocados, halved and stoned (pitted) 1 garlic clove, crushed From the store-cupboard 15ml/1 tbsp olive oil

Method Reserve two of the hard-boiled eggs and halve the remainder.

Carefully remove the yolks with a teaspoon and blend them with the avocados, garlic and oil, adding freshly ground black pepper and salt to taste. Spoon or pipe the mixture into the halved egg whites using a piping (pastry) bag with a 1cm ½in or pipe star nozzle Serve the remaining egg whites and sprinkle over the filled eggs.

Sieve the yolks and arrange on top. Arrange the filled egg halves on a serving platter.

Chef Silvester

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WILD PEPONI

Blue-headed tree agama (Acanthocercus gregorii) Acanthocercus is an genus of lizards in the family Agamidae. The genus is endemic to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula

Photo credits: Mr. Robin Backhouse

Photo taken at Peponi School

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