Tristan's Blog

A day in the life and home of a child in an informal settlement My name is Sipho, and I live in an informal settlement in Du noon. And here’s the thing, I don’t have a warm roof over my head so My life would be better, sorry way better if I had a warm roof over my head that has no leaks when it rains. And a warm house, with proper walls that keeps my family and I warm throughout Winter. And If I had a shower so I don’t have to wake up 4 in the morning to get water to wash up for school. Another thing that is hard for me, is that I don’t have much clothes to wear for school, such as shoes I’m always cutting my feet on the way to school and on the way back because of all the litter. I also struggle doing my homework, because I have no Electricity therefore I have no lights so I struggle to see my homework and have to go and sit under a lamp post just to see my homework. But I also have some positives in my life, I get to hang out with my friends after school for a bit and play Cri...

The singing inspector So last week the singing inspector came over, and boy is that guy the devil. Me and benny were horrified. (That means I’m charles) We had to sing a song in front of everybody in the class, and on top of that he made us look like idiots I mean he even called us idiots, and we didn’t know one single song.   2. So then I just said we could sing Pretty Polly but of course the bull of bashan shouted “Then sing it!!!’’ So we began to sing I even got the words wrong in a very low voice. And benny didn’t make things better. He sang in the squeakiest voice ever. And I hate to admit but we did sound pretty horrible. And then in the middle of the verse me and Benny just stopped because we were horrified. Then our turn was finished and didn’t have to sing anymore.