Aimee's Blog

During our last term we’ve been learning about poetry using similes and metaphors. My topic was about my dog that got hanged in a car. I miss him very much. His name is Sox. It was quite easy to write, for I like deep things. I know a few sad words. Here are the poems I wrote. I hope you like them. Sox as teen. Them as puppies, Sox is the one on the left. His Brother, Spot

I wake up to darkness, in a cold, icy mattress it’s freezing, I get my dusty bag not having breakfast and I’m off. I can’t change my clothes I only have one pair, no shoes I’m walking along the dusty road, I stepped on a sharp rock or two on the way to school. It takes such a long time to get there I can’t even travel by bus because I have no money. In school the bathrooms are horrible, we need to dig a hole to do our business, in my class there’s not a very good education, the teacher has to help each one of us, there’s like 60 in my class it’s very packed. Sometimes the teacher doesn’t even get to me because there’s so many people. On the way from school it’s the same thing stepping on stones, hurting my cold feet. I need to do my homework late at night because the street lights only come on late, so I have time to play. There’s not a lot of space so I play in a little junk pile by myself. I get a few cuts I don’t have bandages to stop it from getting infected sadly. Then it’s...

The Singing Inspector… Yesterday was a regular boring day at school, till in music class there in the corner of the room was this tall, old man. He had puffy pants that went up to his knees and stockings that were very thin, you could see his hairy, burned legs. What was this person doing here and why was he wearing that stuff? Ew! We all sat on the mat with this man in front of us. He glared at us with his rotten teeth. He called up Armstrong and I, my heart was racing this guy was really scary. He said in a stern voice “Come on, aren’t you going to sing something”. But I was too scared to answer.  Armstrong answered in a quiet, slow voice, “W-We can sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?”. Fine just sing it, he said. Whilst Armstrong was singing in his high pitch voice, I didn’t do anything I was too scared. The man was staring at me I tried so hard not to make eye contact and eventually he told us to stop. He said “Horrible you call that singing get out of my class id...

I was ecstatic to go to school today, well everyone was it was my first day of school, I couldn't wait! When school started we went to the mat and we all sat down, quite shy because we didn't know what our teacher was like, or some of us didn't know each other was going to be like, then we all started to get to know each other, it was fun...  A few days later, I've  gotten to know everyone pretty well, I've even made new friends on the way, t he subjects were harder but I managed just fine... Half way in Term 1, the boys are really annoying apart from some, their normally quiet, but the annoying ones are really loud and talk during Mr Raven is teaching, its really hard to work when they talk. The girls are much different we are quite and don't "really"talk when Mr Raven is teaching. Its been really fun so far and I'm really exited for the next term! 

The Butterfly Lion is such a interesting book I highly recommend it!!! And in the Grade 4 the class did a couple things with it in our English. Anyway...I felt sad when Bertie's mom was sick and could sometimes not play with him. I felt TERRORIZED when Bertie had to shoot the lion (not he shot a tree or something) But I felt so TERRORIZED! When he helped two army men I felt warm inside because that was a very dangerous thing to do...to be honest I  would  not do that!!! When he found the lion I felt SO EXITED I WAS JUMPING AND JUST SO HAPPY!!! I felt determined when Bertie saw the poster of The Butterfly lion and he was like I'm going to find him!!! I felt rage when the french man didn't know what Bertie was saying.   

Two weeks ago we were on camp. We went to Giraffe House and saw many animals. There was this one bird called Michel and he was saying Hello, Goodbye and NOOO,  he also was dancing! And we fed goats it tickled a lot! And Chumile kissed a frog!  When we left too Simonsberg we had to pack our stuff in our rooms. The people in my room were Arianne, Danika and Leyema. Then we met the Simonsberg Staff  Qbusy, X-Man, Alan and I forgot the other one....Then we were playing fun activities including S.T.O.P stop and we had too go in groups and Alan had too pick!!! I was worried if I Wasn't going to be with my friends!!! I ended up only going with Arianne...(Sorry Danika if your reading this) I'm only going to tell one activity because there were so many. The activity that I choose is with Qbusy, mud swing. My group and I were trying to figure it out, and we got it but we needed to take our shoes off and some of the boys took of there shirts off. In the forest we built a fort then...