Weebly Website

As promised the link to the website we did....
Understandingfracking.Weebly.Com

Please keep in mind it was done with grade 9/10's in mind and it is my first of this ever!

My South Africa

In class we were given a list of statements of hope starting with "My South Africa".

Well, my thoughts...
My South Africa as a little girl is wide open space, and grasslands, telephone lines along the long long road between Pretoria and Cape Town. A place of beauty and blue skies.

My South Africa is the Xhosa cleaning lady that cleans for free and leaves bread for the kids of the white divorcee not able to make ends meet - Eastern Cape long before 1994.
A place of care.

My South Africa is the black gardener that works faithfully and continue to show respect to the white women of the house, letting his actions speak as an example.  A place of respect.

My South Africa is the place where a boy from Ghana works as a gardener, puts himself through Bible school and becomes a pastor to the people of the local township. His efforts rewarded with a wife and two beautiful babies and more.  A place of opportunity.

As a child, that was my South Africa....I was blind to hardships beyond measure of life in a shack and not having food to eat.  A place of hardships and discrimination. ...it only became that with education.

Let us not teach children how to discriminate, when they have no idea what that is, but let us not remain children, blind to the truth and pain of others.

UNPLANNED

So this was UNPLANNED.... I learned how to create a website with Weebly.  Yes it was part of an assignment.  In this year a very few things are not.  

In any case, I thought I could do this the normal way, PowerPoint or something that I already know how to use (use a blog  - you have everything you need on there....) no, not this time.

  

So I set myself to the task and "googled it".  Well it was much easier than I thought and I had too much fun doing it.  Too much, yes, too much, because I have 3 other, no make that 4 other assignments due next week and I am spending way to much time finding the right pictures and placing them just so....that everything looks A1.  Don't look now but give us a few more days and then I will post a link to the site.  NOT bad ek se, not bad at all.  

Something else I did not plan on or anticipate was the fact that I had to write my personal vision as a teacher in an assignment (due of course next week).  Well a personal vision is not something I have in my back pocket, and not something I develop in a week. Don't get me wrong, I am not without vision, but due to the nature of this year vision has been well, very much in a state of flux.  

And vision was also very much replaced by a to do list.  Keeping up with assignments and responsibilities.

I need at least a week in a cabin in the wilderness, the Fynbos around me, a lot of quiet, the sandstone rocks and sand under my feet, and the sea on the horizon to develop a good vision.

Something that will keep me focused during my first years as a teacher.  That will inspire not just myself, but also my students and colleagues.  Something that, without having to state it, will show parents that I mean business when it comes to their children's education.  That is what I expect of a vision.  A statement that will keep expecting from me to produce my best; not to give up and to get up when I get knocked down.  I few words that reminds me to keep an attitude of gratitude, a smile on my dial and a prayer in my heart.

To be the best version of me that I can possibly be. To care, to dare, to share.

To pray, play and pay my dues.  To dance, take a chance and to advance. To be, to become and to believe.

Eleanor Roosevelt said it this way: