A in an informal settlement.

Outside the wind was howling causing the iron sheets of the shack to shake and make a deep disturbing  sound. I closed my eyes to try and sleep again but was interrupted by my mom shouting, " MUST GET MORE ALCOHOL!" She is an alcoholic and it's actually really hard for me. She doesn't have enough money to buy more alcohol, she hasn't had a drink in a week or two, dad was forced to lock her up in the nearest toilet, all the neighbors are complaining but we had to,we kept her away from alcohol, she threatened to kill us... Dad said just to ignore her, so usually I block my ears by covering them with my hands, but today when I did it all I could hear was my stomach growling with hunger. I stood up and grabbed the text book which I still had to give to Sebabatso  who had to study from it. I stuffed it in my bag and pulled a old, baggy sweater over my head, I grabbed my socks since I have no shoes.  Today I had to walk to school, i usually go on the taxi, but today all the of them were full. I walked into class and squeezed into a seat at the table where there was already eight others kids seated. That day we had to write a letter to children from the other classes telling them stuff about ourselves. I just started with the first sentence: "I am a 13 year old girl named  Dinie", when we heard gunshots...Mrs. Nosibusiso shouted for everyone to fall flat on the ground. Then its hit me, the gangs were fighting again. In the distance I could hear the police sirens. An hour went by but we all lay still, not making a sound, afraid we would be hurt. We all went home immediately, but when I got home it was already dark and silent, but why wasn't mom screaming? I ran into the house, I couldn't find dad anywhere. I felt a cold chill go down my spine. I heard a dog bark, and then then I heard more gunshots.

Flight 554

 I woke up to sound of the pilot of the airplane frantically shouting, "MAYDAY, MAYDAY!" Something was very wrong! I ran to the front part of the plane to see what was going on. I registered two things at the same time, one: smoke coming out of the right engine and two: the plane was busy falling! Then I heard the voice of the air-traffic controller saying, "flight 554,stay calm and get ready to.....when the connection broke, for a second there was silence. Then all we could hear were branches breaking as we crashed through the trees.

100WC Challenge 2 - All The Confusion

While flicking through the channels on the TV, something caught my eye...it was a statue of three men who appeared to be talking. I was amazed by the clothes they were wearing, two of the men were barefoot and wearing robes. The third man was wearing a smart suit and they appeared to be in China because there were lanterns in the background. The three men looked like leaders and maybe they were talking about World Peace...no wonder they looked worried! Suddenly I heard mom shout "Switch off the tv and come clean your room!"

The Singing Inspector

We were all sitting in the big room. Because Raymond, the singing inspector, told us to and we did  as we were told. He was terrifying, he looked liked a hunting man, with his huge knickerbockers and his thick stockings, he had blue eyes and golden hair. He was very hateful, the big and the little boys were lucky and got to stay in class, they did no singing... We all had to do singing exercises like, doh, ray,me and stuff like that. Benny and Charles had to sing, but the only song they knew  was pretty Polly. When they sang it was hard not to laugh, they sang very strangely. But I could tell mr R was getting mad, the next second he shouted, WASTE OF TIME, WASTE OF TIME,  two worthless idiots in a singing class, send them out. Then he called me, I sang and wasn't sent out, which was a relief, then he called Gladys Armstrong and Iris, I could tell Iris was really nervous, she was even shaking. Then he called Winnie and Gladys Long to help Iris and Gladys and he even called them paralyzed mutes!