An Elephant Not-Sighting

This morning started out as a totally normal day. I got up at about 6.45 (10 minutes early so i could plan my double lesson for that morning), had a cup of tea and headed out at about 7.15. Assembly went without a hitch, Mr Dow as usual said some wise words. After a brief staff meeting a went over to my Standard 5 class to teach them about quadrilaterals. A double lesson flew by and i was soon back at our house. I then had a decision, I could either go to the workshop and help the school carpenter and mechanic with their work. Or i could stay here for a little while and plan the weeks lessons. I choose the second option thinking that I would be very organised this week and not to the lesson plan on the morning of the lesson. This took about 40 minutes. After I had finished this dull task i then headed out to the workshop to help some of the other staff, i had not gone 50 meters when i saw Mr Mosotho (one of the manual teachers) dart behind a building. I heard a few voices so followed him behind the bush and round the back of a building. I then found all of the staff members who were not teaching and the two German volunteers Konstantine and Rafael. I asked what had happened, thinking that maybe someone had lost a ring on the ground or something. Mr Dow just replied 'There were elephants just behind that fence'. I started scanning the bush but I could see no elephants. I heard one of the teachers say that now the only chance you will get to see them was if you climb a tree. I ran down the side of the fence in search of a suitable tree, there wasn't one. A while later i went back to the group of teachers to find out what had happened. Konstantine then told me that they were working in the work shop when they heard elephants nearby, they then went to the fence to see. Konstantine described how he was 5 meters away from a huge elephant only minutes before i arrived! There were 20 in the herd and one came only meters away from the fence. Gutted.