I spent the night at a nearby guesthouse (with, astonishingly for rural Limpopo, a 24-hour restaurant, run by some sweet Afrikaaners from the Cape). It was heavily meat-based: my choice of Beef, Chicken, Lamb, Liver, Pork, Ham, Bacon, Boerwors, Sausage, and Tripe.
Then when I got to school in the morning, I walked in and all of the learners were having an 'assembly,' -- i.e., singing. The cheered loudly as I walked in -- surreal and awesome. And up on a pedestal in front of all of them was the telescope. So this was an assembly with 1200 students dedicating their new telescope. How amazing!