The Singing Inspector

Last week the singing inspector came. He had a round, red face, bright blue eyes and a mob of curly blonde hair. His name was Mr Reymond. He wore long, thick stockings and had a frown on his face. At first sight, he looked like a General, or something, that was, for some reason, really, really cross.

He took us into a big room but didn't let the smaller children or the biggest boys (like Jack Long and Paulus, who do exams and don't do singing) come as well.

Once everyone was in the big room, we did exercises like do, re, me and tata tete. Then we started singing. 

 Benny and Charles went first. Mr Reynold told them that they would stand in the front and sing for him and the rest of us. Little did he know that they couldn't even sing Blue Bells of Scotland or Minstrel Boy. Mr Reynold got really angry and almost shouted at them. "What can you sing, then?" he yelled. "We can sing Pretty Polly" Charles had said, though it sounded more like a squeak to me. "Then sing it" Mr Reymond had roared, and Benny and Charles and sung it, though it was terrible I must admit.

Then he called me. I was frightened of the horrible Mr Reynold and was scared he was going to shout at me or tell me my singing was horrible, but everyone's always said I had a good voice, so, I decided that I wouldn't let my being scared get me shouted at. I was really nervous, but I thought it best not to look at him, so singing for him wasn't actually that bad. I thought it went quite well, actually, and believe it or not he didn't say anything, which, I guess, means he didn't think mine was that bad.

Super Skype Session

Wilmington Shool was doing a Skype marathon. Our school, Elkanah House, was part of it. Since there school is in North America, our class divided into groups to tell them a bit about our country. My group told them about how we are taking action to help the animals and environment. I talked about how, as South Africans, we have licenses for catching a limited amount of fish. My two friends dressed up in  traditional Zulu outfits and they looked really pretty! I thought it was a good experience for us to do a half an hour Skype session with them because we learned a bit about there country, and they learned a bit about ours.

Our Awesome Grade 5 Camp

Looking for a cool place to go camping? (I'm not sure if they do separate families, but they did our Grade) Try High Africa. All the Grade 5's at Elkanah went there for 3 days. There was a river you could swim in and there was a whole lot of activities that we did, that you don't do every day - Like building a raft and the paddling on it, which I thought was really cool, free falling from a highish wooden pole (with a rope attached to you) I'm afraid of heights so it was definitely a good experience for me, and a 10 meter high climbing wall which was really scary! And those were just my favorites.... 

The food was really good, but my favorite meal was the one my friends and I cooked ourselves, for the poitjie competition! It was a chicken poitjie, but since I'm a Pescatarian (like Vegetarian, but I do eat seafood) I only had the vegetables and rice, but it was still lovely. The chalange was to cook the poitjie and then decorate the table using only the things you brought with you. Our group's theme was Under the Sea and we won the best table set up! I had a lot of fun with my friends at camp and I only hope next year will be just as nice.