Wanneer sy die afgelope jaar in die gange van Ho\u00ebrskool Montana in haar gewone klere en met los hare gestap het, het van die leerders onbewustelik gegroet: \u201cHallo, juffrou!\u201d<\/p>\n
Maar Cari Booyens (23) was nie op pad personeelkamer toe nie.<\/p>\n
Sy het al vyf jaar gelede gematrikuleer, maar het aan die begin van vanjaar haar trots gesluk en die hoof van di\u00e9 skool, Gerhard Biesenbach, gevra of sy kan terugkom skool toe om lewenswetenskappe as vak te neem.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk het eers onlangs besef dat ek graag \u2019n verpleegster wil word, maar ek het nie lewenswetenskappe as vak op skool geneem nie en dis \u2019n vereiste,\u201d het Booyens Maandag 16 November buite die saal van Ho\u00ebrskool Montana in Worcester vertel.<\/p>\n
Sy en haar jonger klasmaats het Maandagoggend die tweede vraestel van lewenswetenskappe geskryf.<\/p>\n
Met di\u00e9 vak in die sakkie kan sy nou aansoek doen om aan die Kaapse Skiereiland Universiteit vir Tegnologie verpleging te studeer.<\/p>\n
\u201cDie eerste dag in die klas was effens vreemd, maar die juffrou het mooi aan hulle verduidelik hoekom ek in gewone klere in die klas saam met hulle sit,\u201d het sy vertel.<\/p>\n
\u201cDie ander leerders het my verwelkom. Ek het selfs \u2019n paar vriende gemaak. Ek kon hulle die aand voor \u2019n toets boodskappe op Whats\u00adApp stuur en hulp vra.\u201d<\/p>\n
Op skool het Booyens vakke soos kuns, gasvryheid en toerisme geneem, want in daardie stadium wou sy \u2019n kunstenaar word.<\/p>\n
N\u00e1 skool het sy in Worcester onder meer by Penny Pinchers, die plaaslike gimnasium en die Boland-dierekliniek gewerk voordat sy besef het: \u201cEk wil in my ma se voetspore volg en \u2019n verpleegster word.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk onthou nog hoe ek aan die begin van die jaar by die dierekliniek gesit en gew\u00e9\u00e9t het dat ek nou dadelik die skool moet bel. <\/p>\n
\u201cJa, ek verdien nou geld, maar ek wil nie vir die res van my lewe agter \u2019n rekenaar sit nie. Ek wil mense help.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dit was vanjaar die eerste keer dat Nelia Cronj\u00e9, lewenswetenskap-onderwyseres van Ho\u00ebrskool Montana, \u2019n ouer leerder \u2019n tweede kans in haar klas gegee het, maar \u201cCari was my ligstraal\u201d.<\/p>\n
Cronj\u00e9 raak skielik tranerig waar sy en Booyens by die skoolhek uitstap.<\/p>\n
\u201cOm te dink ek het iemand gehelp om \u2019n werk te kry. \u2019n Mens dink altyd ons kan niks doen aan die menigte mense wat swaarkry in ons land nie, maar die sleutel is eintlik net om di\u00e9 te help wat oor jou pad gestuur word.\u201d \u2013 Die Burger<\/i><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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