Life of a child in a informal settlement.

I woke up and it was so cold it felt like 0 degrees. My parents have been trying to get me to a new school. Now it was chaos. My pet dog was so hungry but we couldn't afford to feed him. I went to school the next day without any breakfast. The school was really big and there were so many kids. Like one thousand kids in one campus and it was so noisy it felt like the loudest person on earth was speaking into a microphone. When we went into class there was 60 children and it had one teacher that came in drunk and was screaming and yelling out “I hate tortoises” and she broke the window and again but this time she said you guys suck. Then another teacher came and took her out and she said she was gonna teach us for the rest of the day. When it was time to go home I rushed to the waiting area where you get fetched. But for a long time my mom and dad didn't come and fetch me. So I waited and waited and waited.

I couldn't walk to my house by myself since there are gangsters in the area where I live. I thought I should go and walk instead of waiting for a long time, so I got up then went to the gate and started my 10Km walk. I get dropped off at my school with a 30 something thousand RAND Nissan so i'm not used walking to school or back home. There were so many people that I passed while I was walking back to my house. When I arrived at my street I saw my dad drunk on the roof of my neighbors house. My mom screaming random words and practically asleep on my dads sofa that was put outside. ( know idea why). I was so angry I went in our little house and slammed the door behind me. The next day I woke up and my parents were still outside.

My dog is about to die so I’m so mad with my life and the next thing you know I’m in hospital with a disease. My mom died of cancer and my dad has a very bad disease called ”HIV”. I’ve been feeling bad since the problem in hospital but now I have been walking to school. I was walking to school with my best friend, James but we just got ambushed. There were two people and one of them hurt my friend and the other one kidnapped me. I woke up and I was in front the heaven's gate so I’m probably dead.

So here’s my interesting life (#crossing fingers)

Thank you for reading.

Mr Raven and classmates.