Tuesday, 4 October 2011

The silk scarf

SETTING 

The story takes place at Oriental Plaza in Johannesburg, a shopping centre where the shops are owned by Indian people in Moghul Boutique. It was during the day time.
PLOT
Mrs. Nebo was a rich woman. She had a husband named Clive Nebo. One day Nebo was going out to do shopping at the Oriental Plaza in Fordsburg with her chauffeur-driven Mercedes Benz. She went with her friend Margret and they first bought some shoes, jewellery and swimming costumes. While Mrs. Nebo was walking from shop to shop she saw a beautiful Indian dress and decided to buy it. She also decided to buy a silk scarf in order to match with the dress. Unfortunately, in the shop where she bought the dress there were no scarves which she wanted. She went to other shop where she found the scarf she was looking for. When she asked about its price she realized that she did not have enough cash so she took out a cheque and gave it to the shopkeeper, (Mr Sakur). The shopkeeper refused it because he did not have a law of accepting cheques in his shop. Mrs. Nebo felt humiliated and started arguing with the shopkeeper.  The two escorts wanted to interfere trying to scare Mr. Sakur, but Mrs. Nebo send them outside of shop. When other shopkeepers heard about the argument, they came to see what was happening and they convinced Mr. Sakur to give the scarf to Mrs. Nebo but he decided to stick to his laws. One of the shopkeepers, Mr.  Sader, decided to give Mr. Sakur cash gave the scarf to Mrs. Nebo as a gift.  
MAIN CHARACTER

Mrs Nebo.
She was of medium of height, with heavy lions.
She was very rich and wears expensive cloths.
She was a wife of  an important official of the African front.
She lived in the white suburb of Houghton.
Through the Tunnel
Plot
This story is all about an eleven years old English boy named Jerry who lived with his widow mother. Jerry and his mother go to the beach mostly for vacation. One morning of their holiday, they went to the beach to sunbath and swim. He viewed a group of local boys as they swim and play out by a huge rock and he missed to go be with the boys, but he also had an idea not to leave his mother alone of vacation. Jerry was really curious to find out where the boys used to hide as they stay under water for a long time. He finally notices that they are swimming into the tunnel and not coming up for a certain time. Jerry knew at first that he would not be able to swim throughout the tunnel without taking a breath and he had nose bleeds at night. So, Jerry convinced his mother to buy him goggles, which he needed to see where the tunnel begins and to prevent salty water to split in his eyes. He trained for the next few days and worked on holding his breathe. Finally on the last day before they are to leave, Jerry decided that it was the time to show what he was made of.  He eventually swam through the tunnel, proving to himself what he is capable of.

Setting
place: At the beach of a foreign country.
Time: it was summer time.


Characters
Jerry
Jerry is an eleven-year old English boy on vacation with his mother on a beach they have frequented in the past. Jerry's mother is a widow and is sometimes overprotective, sometimes not protective enough, of her son. Jerry attempts to make friends with some older boys on the beach, but they ignore him after discovering he is childish. Jerry is jealous of the older boys-he watches them as they swim through a rock in which there is a narrow underwater gap. In an attempt to become equal to them, he begins to persistently practice holding his breath so that he too may swim through the rock

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

My first experience.

When I was first told to come up with a blog account, I thought it would be an easy thing to do. But then, it was so annoying and tiring. I was mostly challenged by choosing my blog address. I typed many addresses, but I think somebody had them already, so they were always unavailable. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed, so I proceeded with the next step.  I was so surprised when I was called for my code that made me not to pick up at first. I thought it was those people who use phones with high frequency that can kill a person in a minute or cause brain cancer. I could not complete it in class, so it became a homework. Lucky enough I had a computer, so this did not increment the  stress i had. Those who didn’t own computers had to stay in queues in the library waiting for those slow and limited computers there.  I finally managed and I couldn’t wait to have my first log in!