A day at school in South Africa - Mark

Today was a school day like most days I suppose. I woke up at 7:30 in the morning and had my breakfast of Bokomo Instant Oats, my favourite. I got dressed into my school uniform. Seeing I live 10 minutes away from school I walk there. I really enjoy the walk, mostly because I pass a rhino. My parents tell me not to feed him but I do anyway, I always give him a bit of my lunch. When I arrived at school at about 8:45 am, everyone was in the playground waiting for the bell to ring. I went to look for my friends, I passed people on skipping ropes, playing tag and even singing. I found my friends at the end of the playground playing football. Football is especially exiting at the moment because we are hosting the world cup this year! I managed to score a hat trick before the bell rang. Our first lesson was maths. maths is probably my least favourite lesson. Today we were doing multiplication, especially our 7, 8 and 9 times tables. I am good at my 7 and 9 times tables, its just my 8's that I need to work on. My first lesson (maths) goes on for an hour and a half, and at 10:30 we have play time. As usuall me and my friends played football. Our playground is a massive field so it is good for football. There are even buk on the other side of the fence. Break finished at 10:45am. Our next lesson went on until 12pm (lunch). That lesson was english. We were all laughing because my teacher was very angry because a hadeda bird kept making his call, which was disrupting the lesson. When lunch came we all went to the hall, we can either have a school dinner or a packed lunch. I always bring a packed lunch because I can put in all the food I like, for example today I had an apple, two biscuits, they were called Eet Sum Mor. I had a sandwhich aswell, well half a sandwhich seeing as I gave some to the rhino on my walk to school. And a TV Bar, made by Beacon, they make my favourite type of chocolate. After finishing lunch at twenty past twelve, we had 40 minutes left of break and guess what, we played football. I accidently kicked the ball over the fence where the buk are, they were staring at it looking very confused, a baby buk sort of nudged it with his head, but then they just gallopped off. At 1pm it was our first lesson of the afternoon, science. For science today we were looking at insects. We went into the playground to look, I found a few beatles and a spider, I deliberatley waved the spider in my friends face, she screamed so loudly. At quarter past 2 it was our final lesson of the day, art. We had to go in the playground again and sketch a picture of the buk. I decided to draw the buk playing football, the ball that was next to them that I kicked over at lunch gave me the inspiration. At 3:30 school ended and I walked home. And so ended another day at a school in South Africa.

Just in case your reading this and your not South African, even though you shouldnt be reading my diary, here is a key for you about some of the animals and food I have mentioned. A buk is a bit like a deer. Bokomo Instant Oats is a cereal. A hadeda bird or hadeda iris is a bird with an ear piecing screech! Eet Sum Mor and a TV Bar are chacoclate bars. Beacon is a chocolate company, rather like Cadbury.