A day in a life and home of a child an informal settlement

This morning I was sleeping peacefully when that deafening rooster woke me up I tried to go back to sleep but I couldn’t I decided to take a walk. I strolled through the town and the fresh air blowing through my hair the sun began to rise .I watched as the sun reflected of the shacks I saw some of the shops opening up so walked back to my shack.

My mom was still waking up she asked where I had been I said I went for a walk she said to me thank goodness your back you need to get dressed for school .
I honestly hated school but mom says you need to have a proper education. I didn’t  hate school because of the work, it was because of the three bullies they would always pick on me and my friend Lizzy.

I walked to Lizzy’s shack, and we walked to school together but as we arrived at school no surprise Nelson,Sheila and jack were there, the school bully’s .They called me and Lizzy all types of names it was very annoying I didn’t like it at all. Finally class started we did maths and English. After that it was break it was cold and wet and the tare was wet and black the sun hid behind the clouds. I was so hungry my stomach began to rumble Lizzy was lucky, she had lunch but she didn’t have much she was so kind to me to let me have someone her lunch  the bell rang and we all went in side.

After break we did Afrikaans I found it hard to pronounce some words, after all I am 13. The Afrikaans is difficult and my classroom isn’t the best . It is made from corrugated iron and and there are only a couple of desks so we were all squished
together. There weren’t enough text books for all of us  which made it very difficult to learn for a test. Social Science was the last subject for the day after school I strolled through the street .I had to make dinner for my family my parents worked really late so when they came back from a long day at work dinner was ready. I probably cut myself every time I cooked for my family after cooking I did my homework .


I always wonder how the rich people live if they have piles of matresses to sleep on. I wish I had a proper house to live in with a brick wall and a fluffy pillow just like a cloud and when I put my head down it is the softest thing imaginable. I wish everyone had a proper house but I guess it will only happen in my dreams

The singing inspector

The singing inspector came yesterday he was so rude to us is name was Raymond I absolutely hated him he was a bully Mr.R called us one by one to sing a song but I thought to myself why would somebody ever sing to him.

First Benny and Charles sang together ,not trying to be rude but there singing was dreadful I didn’t enjoy it at all after .First Benny wouldn’t sing but Mr.R ‘s face quickly changed from a light pink like a peach to red like a tomato he had golden curls like Goldie locks you know about  that story Mr.R forced them to sing .

His face probably went red from the tight pants he was wearing or was it the anger I think it was both Benny and Charles only got to sing half way through their song when Mr.R said to them get out you idiots you don’t belong in my class and he pointed at the door I felt sorry for them but their singing was very very bad

I went and I sang a classic song that I always heard but Mr.R didn’t seem so thrilled I felt uncomfortable and nervous I wonder what was he thinking this girl is an absolute idiot it was frightening I thought I did pretty good but Mr.R was thinking something completely different that was pretty good if I do say so myself.

It was Gladys and Iris’s turn to sing after me ,they were not bad but what I wish I didn’t see was that Gladys was shaking like a leaf poor girl Iris didn’t even open her mouth Mr.R shouted out you little stupid girl that was awful my ears have never heard such a terrible sound. It was the worst day of my life.

News in Grade 5

Last week all of the Grade 5 classes took three days off,of a normal school day to do ILT. We got put into pairs by our teachers and we had to find a unusual soil creature we had to design a poster  and do an oral it was definitely a challenge but in the end it was wonderful my parter an I did the Mining Bee

We found a lot of information on the mining bee and when we had all the information we had to put it on a google doc and once that was finished we went and did our poster once then we did our oral it was a lot of fun we got to dress up.We dressed up as Mining bees

I am hoping camp is going to be fun I get a bit nervous when we are driving there but I always get there safely I miss my mom and dad sometimes. I am exited to do fun tasks and to climb on the climbing wall and swim in the river because I love swimming I really want to find out who am I going to be with in my caben I have never been to high Africa before but it is going to be really fun(well I hope so) and I hope no mosquitoes.