Margot and Zara: April Diary Writing

African Sunset

Zara’s April Writing:

Wednesday 7 April

Goodnis Acke!

I’m looking at a giraaf for goodnis acke.

I saw an elephant for goodnis acke.

I saw a warthog for goodnis acke!

I saw a lion for goodnis acke!

I saw a kudu for goodnis acke!

I saw a squirrel for goodnis acke!

I saw a suni for goodnis acke!

I saw a nyala for goodnis acke!

I saw an impala for goodnis acke!

Bug collection

Monday 13 April

Hamster!

Thang cue very motsh for the hamsters. Hamsters are good runners. My hamster bit my finger. The cage is blue. I hav a little bottle for the water. I qute (put) som saw dust inside. Thay love ther running wheel. My hamster is cald Bibi.

Zara

Monday 19 April

Simmon (the cat) and Ruf (the dog) were fiting (fighting).

Roxy (the bunny) toled (told) them to stop.

They stoped. Simmon saw Roxy. She ran after her.

“Watsh (watch) out Roxy, I’ll catch her!” said Ruf.

Simmon cort (caught) her prey. She was still allive (alive) so she askaped (escaped).

Zara

Wednesday 28 April

I went to Ithala. It was fun because we went on the 4x4 track. We camped there and saw rhino and elephant.

Zara's art

Margot’s April Writing:

7/04/10

Ndumo

On Sunday we left Cindy (our kitten) on her own and went to Ndumo Game Reserve. It took us about one and a half hours but it was worth the while!

As we arrived, two big male giraffes came prancing out of the bush. We went a little further on the windy and rocky dirt road. There, we saw a few others but they were girls giraffes. There were also one or two baby giraffes. The funny thing about those specific giraffes was that they didn’t have normal patches; Their patches looked more like Canadian maple leaves! We thought it was so beautiful we actually stayed a night there. Supper was delicious; Voos and stir-fry on the skottle. When we woke up the next morning, dad told us his story about vomiting in the night. We were surprised to hear this but we suspected it was the chicken mum cooked that we think was raw. Other than that, Ndumo was awesome!

12/04/10

Hamster

Last week-end (the holidays), we went to Impangeni to stay with friends. There was a girl of my age there called Emma. She is very nice except we didn’t play much; we only watched TV. Apart from that, we did do some painting. I did a big pink flower.

Before we left, Emma showed us some baby hamsters! She said that she needed to give them away so me and Zara pleaded mum to get one.

We were very happy when mum said yes. It took a long time for me to choose one. When me and Zara eventually picked one, we set off to get a cage.

On the way, we were all trying to make-up names for them and in the end, I settled with Nibbles and Zara Biby. I love our new hamsters!

Margot's art

14/04/10

Toto

Toto was our oldest chicken in NZ. Our tenants were looking after her. We also had four other chickens: Juju, Siena, Weetbix and Cornflakes. Siena and Weetbix were my chickens. We think Toto was about 10 when the most horrible thing happened; our tenants sent us a letter and at the bottom, it said that Toto was dead. I remembered when I used to call Toto in for dinner every day and how easy it was to catch her. Our tenants sent another letter that said that they had invited Mag, our neighbour, to burry her. I am sad for Toto.

19/4/10

Lala Nek

Yesterday, Gerda (a lady from the hospital grounds) offered us to come with them to Lala Nek. Wentzel (my friend) wouldn’t be coming because he wanted to play at a friend’s house. The problem was that Gerda didn’t have a 4x4 so instead, we took our 4x4 and all 7 of us (Gerda, Annalou, Uju, Lize, Zara, Mum, another friend called Jade and me) piled in. It wasn’t that squishy because our car has 7 seats but apart from that, lize’s car seat was taking up all the room in the second row of the car (there are 3 rows of seats in the car). When we eventually arrived at Lala Nek , we quickly got changed. I slipped into my rock shoes and sprinted to the sea. We had to be careful because there was a sign saying: “BEWARE OF SHARKS!”. So we had to stay in the shallows. We found lots of little tunnels that would go under a big chunk of rock attached to both sides. It was also a snorkeling paradise! Just to look at the corals was amazing! I saw a fish that looked like the South African flag called a trigger fish and I also saw a mustard coloured stingray with blue fluorescent spots on it. There weren’t much other animals; a few birds but lots of sea urchins! We had a lovely day.

22/04/10

Sports Day

Yesterday, we went to Sodwana bay school to do sports. We started by doing a 1km run to the soccer field. At the soccer field, we could choose out of karate, soccer or netball.

I chose Junior soccer which I didn’t enjoy much. All we did was kicking the ball to each other in a group. I would have liked doing netball much more than soccer.

Zara was doing soccer too but she would have been good at karate.

After, we went for a swim at Sodwana beach. The waves were perfect for boogie boarding. There were millions of baby crabs everywhere on the beach. I had a lot of fun!

29/04/10

Granny!

On Thursday last week, I took a day off school to go to Durban to pick-up Granny. It was a long 2 hours drive but it was worth it. We (me and mum) saw some people selling honey comb on the side of the road, but we thought it would melt so we didn’t buy it.

The next day we went to camp at a place called Ithala Game Reserve. We saw lots of game there!

The next day was even better. At Mkuze Game Reserve, we saw a white rhino just next to our car!

The last day of our holidays was far the best! We stayed at a luxury resort at Rocktail. Mum collected lots of junk from the beach and we made a collage with it.

Rocktail Beach Art