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A day in a informal settlement

This morning I’m going to school. I don’t have lunch so I eat at school. So I dress up and wait for my transport outside it’s very cold. I wait at the porch my transport is a taxi I live in zwelitsha.  So I go to school and our school starts at. 8 o’clock. School start then there was only ten learning books but there are fifty children. We had to share the books. It is break time, we only have one break not two.  So we have food to eat from school. Today we ate rice, meat, spinach and cabbage. It was very tasty. We had tuck shop ,ours wasn’t a truck we had table unhealthy food like sweet fat cooks and burgers. It is end of school so I wait for my transport it is  very late so I just wait for my transport to come . I come at 6 o’clock i eat food from the leftover from yesterday. Today is Saturday and my grandma is sick so she went to the clinic. I went with her in the morning it had a big line . I wish my family had an appointment so that we can skip this line. We bought the

The Singing Inspector

I had to go to choir class I sat down and the was a teacher called Mr Raymond. He wore knickerbockers with thick stockings on he was like a hunting man He had blue gooseberry eyes he called everyone except the little children and the big boys. We did do ray me and tata tĂȘte things. Then we had to he called Benny and Charles.  They stood in front of him. They did not sing anything . He pointed the stick on the moderator. Mr R roared and he told them to sing anything. They sang pretty Polly. He looked like a Bull of Bashan. They began singing it was terrible singing. Benny sang in a squeaky voice. In the middle verse they stopped. Benny and Charles got chased out . Then it was my turn and I was shaking to death. He told us here the deaf and dumb he asked us where are you voices.