The Freezing Sakeji Water
On the first Saturday of the first term we went swimming. It was our
first day swimming with Brian. We went down to the swimming pool, lined up
against the edge ready to get in. Mr. Raymond told us one at a time to do
a width of breast stroke and then it was Brian's turn. Brian was shaking
with fear and Jeremiah was too.
The water was freezing when we dived in. The next width was the back
stroke which is one of our favourite strokes. The last stroke that we did
was the crawl and that is one that we don't like.
Then Brian got out of the water and went up to Mr. Raymond and asked if
Jeremiah could get out too because he was frozen. Mr. Raymond said that he
could. So Brian went to get changed. Then the rest of the class got out of
the pool on Mr Raymond's command. When Brian was changed he came out to
see his friends by the pool telling each other how cold they were. Then we
went to the river and started to make a dam. We made a plane too. Then
Brian had to go home and leave the cold Sakeji water!
- Brian Wolford and Jeremiah Mutala
Weird Teachers
All the Teachers were weird some time ago. We all thought something was
wrong with them.
Miss Hazel Andrews went into the tree house and down the slide with a
grade one boy named Kapulu. Mr Raymond went on the trampoline before
supper and we all crowded around him. Miss Deacon was running with Fanta
the dog. I was so hilarious because we had never seen any of the teachers
acting like this.
Mr Terry come down the Zambezi Rapids with us on our class trip. Miss
Millard fell into a ditch at night when the Brass Tacks Men were digging
trenches for electric cables.
It was amazing because all of this happened in one term.
- Rhona Park and Tinashe Bushe
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End of Term
December 1998. Everyone was on the roundabout watching for their
parents. The cars started pulling up to collect their loved ones.
Children were running for their parents.
The crowd began to shrink...and shrink...and shrink; soon a few of my
friends and I were the only ones left.
I was just about to give up when around the corner came that
ever-familiar Chevy Luv! From then until supper time I was reunited with
my family.
When the supper-bell rang I got my food and ate it with Josiah, my
younger brother.
After supper I went to get ready for the end of term concert.
The next day I got up with the bell and readied myself for the day. I
went outside and waited for my parents. Once more I waited...and
waited...and waited. The breakfast bell went and my parents hadn't even
woken up yet!
After breakfast I tried to stick with my parents but kept on losing
them.
When it was time to go we packed up, said our final goodbyes and left
for home.
- Levi Carter
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