Simone's Blog

“Get up, get up now or else your going to be late for school.” These are the words I hear almost everyday and I hate them. I have to get up early to get dressed for school, sometimes I can have breakfast but that is only if my mom gets a raise or bonus. I have to deal with the hunger at school if I don’t get breakfast though, because walking to school really sucks the energy out of you, walking for a whole 45 minutes through the dirty and muddy road is such a pain! When you get there you have to go straight to class, I am always late because of the extremely long walk and I can’t wake up earlier because then I will be too tired to even get up.Some kids call me lazy, but trust me you will need all the energy you can get just so you can walk to school and back! When school starts I have to focus like a hawk, never taking my eyes off the dusty chalkboard my teachers use. There’s so much noise I can’t even hear my own thoughts that is the problem of being in a class of sixty five children

My name is Jesse. And yesterday was a day of pain and suffering. I always thought school was for learning, not for being jawed at. I was at my desk waiting for the day to start, the teachers looked nervous and some of the children too and I didn’t know why. Then I remembered that the singing inspector was coming to our school today! When he arrived I noticed he had huge knickerbockers, much bigger then my dad’s, he had this red face. All puffed up. He was the full package alright. He even stared at you with his gooseberry eyes. I already hated it. He went ahead and put us in the big room, where we did singing. He made us do singing exercises, and then it was time to sing. He didn’t bring the little kids or the big kids along. Probably because the little kids were to young and the big kids only do exams. Oh how I wish to be them now. He asked Charles and Benny to sing first, but they don’t know any songs, we all know that. But they surprised me when Charles said they could sing Pretty P

Camp was something I was looking forward to. Getting to go to High Africa for the very first time! I was so excited to do this, get away from technology and all other distractions. So when the 6th of March came I was so pumped! When we got onto the bus, I was ready for the wait. A two hour drive can’t keep my excitement down. Then we settle down and get ready for the bumpy ride, off the camp we go!!!We arrived at camp with so much excitement, even with all our heavy bags, we ran to the meeting point. We all couldn’t wait till we got our cabin numbers, once the crew members were introduced, we got our cabin numbers, I got all of my friends and then went to our cabin, we reached our destination. CABIN 7!!! We unpacked ( after we discussed who gets the top bunk ) then we headed out to the cafeteria to get our cutlery in place. After that the real adventure began. I was assigned to the Leap of Faith! It was one of the games we had to do. It was so exciting there was this climbing wall a

Grade 5, what a wonderful experience so far! First day of school starts with a bunch of homework, what a day! Next week we are on a mission to the beach, challenging each other to see who can stay in the water the longest, even though the water was cold... We manged to even go even deeper. Under the water! And after that, we buried my friend in the sand and gave her a tail, and then Mother Earth came! I was buried in the sand form my toes to almost my nose! My friends have built a mountain on my legs with mud and sand and was now calling me Mother Earth. I washed off in the water when I was done, but the water was so cold I never touched it again! Now all the fun was over the next outing arrived. For a relaxing trip to..... Kirstenbosch! What exciting news, being called Mother Earth at the beach,  I was pumped to go see the flowers! Once the day had arrived we got to see not just flowers, but trees that could be over 100 years old. We got to go on the Boom slang and when we were walki