SnakesAnLadders: June 2006

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

The Yuka Tree

This is the Yuka Tree Yesterday. The Yuka tree started to almost fall over, so me and Julien (the Yuka tree is Julian’s tree) thought we should fix it. so we moved it closer to the sun, cos we thought it might be leaning over looking for the sun. But then it was still leaning over, so we got some blue plant medicine stuff from B&Q, then it still leaned over, then, Julian got a stick from Whatney Market and tied the Yuka tree to the stick, but the stick started falling over sort of so the Yuka Tree also started falling over. Probably the stick wasn’t strong enough for the Yuka Tree. Or we forgot that soil is not cement. Then we thought, let us tie the stick to something else so that the Yuka Tree would be ok, so we found some scrap yard wire and we tied the stick that was tied to the tree with string, to the side of the pot that has the Yuka tree in it, cos Julian had already transplanted it from the small pot it came in from Deptford to a bigger pot, with the scrap yard wire and we gave it some more blue juice. We hope this will work as we like the Yuka plant and we want it to grow ok. It is important. Here is a picture of part ofYuka tree as it stands now. Then we talked about golf and checked the soccer score as we felt we should.

Friday, June 16, 2006

Today is Youth Day in South Africa

This is a picture of Hector Peterson. He was the first child to be shot by the south african police on June the 16th 1976. All black kids in South Africa were forced to learn in Afrikaans (the language of the oppressor) and their education system was designed to be second rate and poor.
The kids organised a march, against this. To be treated fairly and to learn in English and their home language. They got shot for it, 1500 armed police opened fire on the unarmed kids and then riots happened and some of the schools got burned down.
This image became a symbol of police brutality and was banned for many years. Soon after this Umkhonto We Sizwe was born.
Now June the 16th is a public holiday in South Africa so that we remember, and it will never happen again in South Africa. South Africa is doing well now.
Here is some information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soweto_Riots