Saying that these things need to be planned far in advance, teachers all around the Grand Duchy have begun distributing sausage order slips for next summer’s annual Schoulfest.
“Please tell us if you want a Mettwurst, a Grillwurst, or a cutlet,” wrote Sylvie Baum, a cycle 2 teacher from Mamer, in a letter to parents on Tuesday. “Note: this is not for this week’s summer Schoulfest, the orders for which were taken last year. This is for July of 2019.”
“Don’t forget to mark how many of each sausage you want,” wrote Felix Engel, who teaches cycle 3 at a school in Niederanven. “Try to anticipate what you’ll be doing on July 10th, 2019, and if that activity will cause you to be very hungry, because we will not be able to provide you with more sausages than you order.”
“Please have your children bring payment by Friday,” he added.
Claudine Ardent, who teaches at a Spillschoul in Kehlen, included in her note to parents some additional information:
“If you are vegetarian, we are sorry to inform you that we have no vegetarian options available for this summer’s Schoulfest, or for Schoulfest 2019, because we have not placed the order sufficiently in advance, but if you complete an ‘exceptional circumstances’ order form and submit it to the Ministry of Education by September 15th of this year, we will be able to provide you with veggie wurst for Schoulfest 2020.”
“But please, don’t forget to tick the ‘veggie wurst’ box on the form,” she continued. “And write down precisely how many you want.”
Just moments after the order forms began arriving at homes around the country on Tuesday, an email was sent out to parents urgently asking them to volunteer to either bring a salad or a dessert for the 2019 Schoulfest, and that if they committed to bringing an item, they would not be allowed to change their minds.
