My day
Mood: cheery
Well today thus far has bin a pretty normal day, considering i was at my lectures and nothing out of the ordinary happened. Dont you sometimes ever wonder wheather anything spontanious will happen, so that at least you have something cool to talk about? Like one time at my high school in Zimbabwe, Africa. The war veterans came to invade us because we had a farm on our school (this was during the land siezures).
It was a normal day in about july 2000, we woke up at 5:45, had breakfast in the dining hall at 6:30 and started classes at 8:00 all as per normal. Then during my geography class i heard loud cheers coming from the main gate. The gate was about 500m away from my class room, so you can imagine how loud this really was. The noise got louder and louder as they approached the second entrance to the school, by now we had all rushed out the classrooms in a panic striken frenzy. Myself and a couple of other guys went to the gate to see the action. There were about 150 peasent farmers with pitch forks and axes demanding to be given the farm on our school. One of the white guys in my class started shouting obscenities at the veterans and threw a bottle at them (this was one of many farm invasions our province had gone through and the white comminunity was getting fed up). The bottle missed and made a loud smash on the tar, this caused the war veterans to get even more rowdy and now they wanted to break down the gate. One of our teachers fired two shots into the air to control the situation. We (the students) were rushed off by the prefects after the second shot because things were getting hectic. I remember whilst running to my hostel hearing people screaming, others shouting in excitement, others singing liberation struggle songs and just all round chaos.
In just 20min a quiet farm shcool turned into "Sowteto Uprisng"(a South African Youth Revolution), with no control over the possible outcomes. Thats the spontinaity im talking about. I've had quite a few if I may add and would love to go on about more but i have a management lecture in 15min. Till my next log in. Ciao ciao
