Kian O's Blog

Hi my name is Jimmy, I’m 11 years old and I live in an informal settlement. The one night I forgot to do my homework do I had to do my homework under a lamppost I wish that we had electricity so I could see at night. I always eat stuff that we can grow ,I wish my parents had jobs so they had a bit more money because if they had more money I wouldn’t have to only eat eggs to get protein.My feet always get cut,cold and sore when I walk to school, another thing that could make my life easier is if I had nice shoes. I wish that we had better materials to build our houses with because it’s so cold at night that sometimes I don’t get any sleep at all. We have no grass on our fields ,I wish that we had soil that can grow grass because every time we play sport our feet hurt so we have to stop playing. I wish we had shops with the things I need for school because I can’t do half of the work that they do without the things I need. I think my life would be easier if we had bathrooms in our h

My name is Benny and last week Mr Raymond the singing inspector came into the classroom and called upon the people he thought could sing. There were quite a few people who went with him and I was surprised when he called my name, Benny Black. I started to tremble I knew I couldn’t sing and I’ve heard stories about the things that happen to the people who didn’t meet Mr Raymond’s standards. I looked at the people who didn’t get up and knew they had great joy in their hearts when they didn’t hear their names being called out. When we got into the singing room Mr Raymond called upon Charles and I first. We both were terrified and we said to each other “Maybe if we don’t sing anything he’ll tell us to sit down again” but that wasn’t what happened. He screamed at the top of his lungs “Sing now or you’ll be expelled” and as his face faded from deep red back to a peachy colour I spoke.”Uh Mr Raymond we don’t know a lot of songs but we know Pretty Polly”. I knew Charles knew that song. Mr