Letter to the young dreamer

Free spirited dreamer

We have now come to that place where we craft the dream into destiny. There have been Smoothies and Smirnoff’s Storms along the way but the hard headed persistent nut that you are has finally cracked into varsity- Rhodes. Yes! The “Rhodes dream” does see the light of day after the thickness of the night has passed!

Fortunately, we are not going to be the typical first year because we are part of the Gap year generation. After boarding school, it will be two years of travelling, dancing, guitar playing, camping, hiking, Kilimanjaro, paint ball and bungee jumping! All this excitement has served a greater purpose than just giving us an adrenalin rush. It will be an intense process of character refining and identity reinforcement for a time like now.

Sadly, hanging out of with holy people will not automatically make you look anything like Jesus; but you will make crucial discoveries about us in the process.
The key to a great first year is to remain me. Once this blueprint has been drafted, everything else, our academics and social life, will fall into place and the next four years should be much more solid and exhilarating.

There is a depth and passion about you that partly defines us. It is in your soul but as you know, it comes through you smile. If you think back a little, you might remember the day our eight year old self decided she would never lose her youth; we swore to remain young at heart, even if it means having a spider man bed set in first year or not always conforming to social expectations! We have to keep the passion and urgency alive or else we will lose the dream and consequently, the destiny.

Always unapologetically Us
Dreamer