A Day In The Life of Poverty I am a girl living in an informal settlement. Every morning when I wake up I wish I am lying on a comfortable bed in a lovely house. I open my eyes and see the holes in the roof of our shack. I am yet again disappointed,it is the same as all the other days before. When I realise the reality, the misery of another day of hardship meets me again. I get up from my water stained mattress and look around our home. My mom sleeps on a blanket on our carpet which is handed down in our family. It is just my mum and I because the only job my dad could get was in Mpumalanga, and he still has to keep himself alive plus send us money and he suffers from HIV so he has to buy medicine for himself. His job is to collect crops and sell them, but the supermarket is 50 km away so he has to use a bus to go most of the way, get a taxi and still go all the way back. He comes home every third year for Christmas and it my favourite time of year because I get to see him and he ...
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The Singing Inspector I was sitting in class doing the usual Math and English. I was sitting in my favourite spot, it has a great view of the hall on one half and the big girls garden on the other half. I was looking at the hall section when Mrs James was finding her papers when I saw it! It was some sort of creature! It had a big fat red... well it would be a disgrace to call it a face but it was where the face usually was. It had two blue evil dots on it and gold furry stuff on top. We were told we had to go to the hall for singing but that was not the petite Miss Alegra our singing teacher. We walked, the girls shoes clicking on the floor. There was a fearful vibe which was odd because everyone was normally really excited . We walked into the hall and he stood there staring us down like a treacherous rhinoceros of gigantic proportions. Stand up! He said as we sat down. We were frightened. I was petrified.”Tattatetta tetta tatte tete tata” we sang. I personally hate this exercise...
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I am going to tell you about my first few weeks in Grade 5. Grade 5 is really cool,it feels kind of weird because Grade 5's are always in the middle of everything. Grade 6's are the oldest and Grade 4's are the youngest but we,are right in the middle. Apart from being in the middle,everything is totally,AWESOME!!! We went to Kirsten Bosch on an outing recently,it was the funnest outing I ever had! I have made lots of new friends and I never really thought of them being good friends of mine but things happen to you that never expected in the first place. There is a lot of work, but I love work so I'm up for the challenge! Even though it's just the start of the year I have learnt a few life lessons such as "always be prepared". And I'm prepared for the rest of the year!