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| Camps Bay High School! |
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| our sportsfield |
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| Wauw!! is this MY school! |
HIGH SCHOOL HAS STARTED!!!! Done with the homeschooling in apartments and libraries... I am at a fantastic, fun, social, public, exciting school named Camps Bay High!! It is located in Camps Bay near the beach (Just south of Cape Town and 20 minutes driving from Hout Bay where I live). I am in grade 9, thanks to mom home-schooling us. We did not have to "fail" a year! The first day at school with my new uniform was strange. I was soooo nervous I was singing very loud and made a lot of noise in the car!!!!!! I already knew the school building, because I had signed up 2 years ago so I knew where the entrance, reception, library and hall was, but the rest of the big school... I HAD NO IDEA WERE I HAD TO GO TO!!. Luckily I had a really nice friend who was at the same primary school as me and always stayed in contact with me. She showed me around and showed me her friends which I also became close friends with. I also met up with a girl who I went to playschool with. We were really good friends, but she went to another Primary school and now after 7 years we are again in the same High School. The one thing I missed the most last year while being home schooled was that I did not have breaks eating and talking with my friends. Last year I would just eat and listen to music alone! Anyway it is nicer and better to have friends near me then chatting on skype or facebook!
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| another view from my high school, looking at the '12 Apostles'. |
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| Assembly in the hall on Mondays and Fridays! |
The schools here in South Africa started a new school year so you would have new teachers and classes. The grade 9, has 130 pupils into different classes with different Houses (groups)..... I know it sounds difficult, but we were split up for every lesson! Our school works like this : we don't have one teacher teaching us, we have a 45 minute lesson with about 25 of us and then when the lesson is over we go to our next class! We also have lockers, like in the " highs school" movies!! Well it feels very cool having friends, lockers, classes, homework, walking around in a uniform feels organised (which I love)! Going to the subject of uniforms. Our uniform is great and I love it. It feels comfortable wearing skorts (skirt + shorts underneath) polo t-shirt with our logo, brown shoes and then on Monday and Friday we wear a blazer during our formal assembly. When it gets cold we also have a Jersey, but so far with the temperatures above 25C the sweater is not so popular. I do not just love Camps Bay because it feels like a second home, but also because it's not too strict. A personal touch is allowed and so one can have different color schoolbags and how nice to be able to bring your mobile phone to school.
How my day/week looks like? Camps Bay High starts at 8:00 o'clock. I take the bus or have a lift just down my street and I go with a few friends from the same area. I arrive at school around 7:40 am with a lot of time left to meet friends and get my books out of the locker. We have 2 breaks -each of 30 minutes- and then after school ends at 2:40 pm I quickly go to my locker, take my books out for homework and run to the bus stop. I relax for 20 minutes in the bus and it stops again just down from my house. At home I have a muesli bar, go swim and then the rest of the day till 6:00 pm I do my homework/study and then water my plants, set the table, eat, read, sleep! That is my normal school day. Sometimes I have sports in the afternoon and on Wednesday I need to rush since I have to go to Dutch School from 3.00 pm till 6.00 pm. You see why I am always so excited when it is weekend and I can go and do things with my friends. TV and sports!! or going away with my family!
I love Camps Bay High School and I hope I will still like it ones I am in Grade 12!!!!
Till in 2 weeks time!
Loes Lindiwe in South Africa!!!
