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A day in the live of a child living in a informal settlement

There I was siting in my bed waiting to get out of my shack. It was flowing with rain, my siblings and I were freezing. Now myself and my 3 sisters and brothers where off to school. I had to packed all the lunches. Unfortunately I did not get any food myself for school. We walk 5km from our shack to our school. At my school we only have 10 text books for 30 children. Most of the children go home and study under a lamppost or worst case they don’t study at all. I fetched my siblings from school and we all started to study. I wish that there where lights,food, fresh and more water and bigger shack or even better a house. Most important parents. My youngest sibling needed the toilet, but it was filthy and there was trash and dirt all around the toilet. She said that she did not want to go to the toilet. On the note about trash all around my shack and the other shacks there are piles and piles of trash. In the middle of the night my second youngest sibling needed water so I had to

Singing inspector

Last week I was just sitting at home when suddenly I saw Mr Raymond, He was wearing some knickerbockers and thick stockings, he had these golden curls in his hair, he had blue eyes like blue gooseberries, and his face its as read as a cherry tomato. He was here to hear us sing and so we all lined up and he said Benny and Charles sing Pretty Polly. When he was finished. Its time for the girls he said, hopefully they will sound better, first Jesse went she was amazing and she sang such a nice song. Gladys and I went next but it did not end well it turns out that Gladys and I where very nervous not a single word came out of my mouth. He said so here stands the deaf and the dumb, I wanted to say you big hateful bully but no words came out. My heart was jumping in my throat and strange noises in my ears.