Informal settlement

INFORMAL SETTLEMENT

It is morning.I woke up cold and tired on the wet floor from yesterday’s powerful rain.I had to spend the dark night scooping dirty big blobs of  mud.No cozy blankets,No proper pillows.My parents died from ebola one year ago and since then I’ve being taking care of my 2 brothers and my 2 sisters.It’s very difficult.First thing that I did was to make breakfast.Usually I  don’t have enough food so every morning I go to our caring neighbor’s house to beg for food.They don’t usually give me  tasty or a lot of food but is enough for my siblings and I.After breakfast we went straight to  school without showering because every morning the line to get the water is very long and if we wait we can probably be late.We have to take the long way to go to school since shortest way there is smelly litter, dead things everywhere and large mud puddles and without shoes is very dangerous.

My youngest sister is very sick.So she can’t go to school.I left at our caring neighbors and they will take her to the hospital.Our school is very dirty and small.There are only two classrooms and me and my siblings were in the same class.

When we go to school we have no bags, no textbooks since we don’t have enough money to afford school equipment.Our school also has very little equipment and everyday I have to share textbooks with my 8 colleges. Today I’m very stressed and worried about my sister since she is sick.Today we had a spelling test and the words that we had to spell I did not know.In the two classes there are about 56 kids and we sit packed together and its very easy to cheat and thats what I did.There are only 2 teachers in our school, they get paid very little salary and because of that sometimes they treat us in a very rude way.

After school I went to see my sister in the hospital.I told my second older sibling to lead my other siblings home.I hope they went home safely .The hospital is very poor and when I got 
there the line was still huge.I waited 3 hours to go see my sister.Unfortunetly She has a very bad disease and we don’t have enough money to afford the treatment.I wish nothing like this would happened,I wish we lived in a better place.Now every day I had to take care of my sister.I couldn’t go to school.

We need more doctors, but we also need waste services.Litter is everywhere in our township and 61% is sick or has very bad diseases.When it rains it floods and our houses get washed away or full of mud.We need running water because we can’t stay in a long line every single day there for a long time. Sometimes, people don’t get to shower and spend days and days dirty and thirsty leading to death.Our life here is terrible and very challenging but I’m grateful that were  are at least alive and we have a small roof over our heads.

Singing Inspector : Benny’s experience

Yesterday was the most embarrassing and scariest day ever. Yesterday a singing inspector came which I thought there was no big deal because all the previous inspectors were fine.But,not this one.His name was Raymond which was my worst nightmare.My uncle,it was him.He didn’t recognize me which Im happy about.He was a skinny man with fair but pale skin.He wore massive and shiny knickerbockers with thick,expensive and long black stockings and he has a curly,ginger and weird mustache . He had a red face and big round eyes that almost looked like he was always staring at you.

The first thing that he did was to call every single one of us to the big room.

Well,except the little ones and big boys who did extremely hard exams and no singing, no singing at all.We did the do re mi fa and ta te things that I hated.He called me and my best friend Charles to come to front and sing.I didnt know one single song since I absolutely ,extremely hate singing.He just stayed there silent and then in a angry and loud voice he said:What can you sing?Then Charles remembered of the song Pretty Poly which is the song that I struggled to sing in grade-R.

We started to sing and it was so embarassing and terrible.I sang very high because I was nervous and scared,Charles sang very low.From everyone’s faces you could see that it was dreadful and they all wanted to laugh.I was out of breath and I stopped sing.Charles did the same.Mr Raymond red and impatient  shouted: Waste of time,To voiceless idiots in singing class.Send them out!We stayed outside for about 2 until the rude man left.Well at least we didn’t have to hear their singing.Chales and I had a big fat conversation.At least it didn’t end as bad as I expected.

Test Post

Today is a hard day.I have to walk,run and do everything bare feet.Some peope in my class ask stupid questions and Mr Raven gets very furstrated.Even sometimes I do that.Njabulo is always laughing and in a good mood.