It appeared that Sir George Somers toured the east end of Bermuda on the morning of Friday April 27, stopping in to say hello to the students of East End Primary during their morning assembly.Appearances, however, can be deceiving, and in fact it was Alan Vian, Town Crier from Lyme Regis, Dorset who addressed the students in his Admiral Sir George Somers period costume.Mr Vian shared with the children what life was like in the seventeenth century when Sir George sailed on the Sea Venture and ended up in Bermuda.The real Sir George was once Member of Parliament for the constituency of Lyme Regis, where he was born. “It is next to the sea like Bermuda,” explained Stephanie Francis.The assembly was “exciting” according to Tre’sure Nanette. “Lots of people enjoyed it,” she explained, “because it made a lot laugh. The assembly was all about him to me”.“We learned a lot from him ... He didn’t go to school back then, he learned how to sail a boat on the seas.”The Primary 4 class had prepared a welcome for him with posters of the project they had completed of Sea Venture and the shipwreck which took place on the reefs only 1,000 yards from East End Primary.Among the things Sir George shared with the children was the fact that girls were “betrothed” to their husband aged 12 and that boys were “betrothed” at aged 14.On hearing this P6 student Jamico Smith-Hollis exclaimed “Are you serious? I wouldn’t want to get married aged 14!”“When Sir George Somers was knighted by the king,” Jayden Cheeseman reported, “he was tapped him on his left shoulder twice and his right shoulder once.”“A lot of things happened to him,” concluded Tre’sure, “like getting shipwrecked in Bermuda.”Somers so enjoyed his visit to East End Primary that he ‘knighted’ Principal Idonia Beckles to the cheers of teachers, children and parents who had come to watch, and commanded: “Arise Lady Beckles!”