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I go to Swanepoel

Boys School in

me's

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this is my school's

I.

, and

the asuburbs

of Cape Town

. There

H

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Here's

a picture

of one of our classrooms

website

1994

,

when

we had the aapart

heid

. Before

are 25

students

in my class

ted separately,

system,

black students

and white stude

nts were educa

al.

l is now amulti-raci

but my schoo

l day

starts at

. Our

schoo

We go to school

from

Monday

to Friday

'sOK, because

it 's

ock,

but that

about

7.40

am, so I get up at

6 o'cl

a uniform . I

hate

it ! We

study

.

We have to wear

and sunny then

hot

aphy,

etc., but we also

ts

-

ience,

History, Geogr

the usual subjec

Sc

,

English

and Xhosa,

a

(which is our

first language)

study Afrikaans

past ten

breaks, one at half

.

We have two short

local

African

ianguage

r

at

.

Afte

and one at half past

twe lve. The school

day finishes

2.15

, or

s such

as rugby, hockey

and swimming

lessons

we can do sport

evening

we do homework

and watch TV.

.

In the

aphy

with rice

artisti

c activities

like music and photogr

ve meat

or chicken

My favourite shows

are ER and Friends

. For dinner

we always ha

potato. At the

and veget ables

such as sweet

is a huge

, which

r Valley

weekends

we go to Tyge

and we often

have

mall in Cape Town,

shopping

icans eat a lot of

th Afr

. Sou

braais (barbecues)

meat!

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school uniform

reak

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do

dents

s at schoo

lessons?

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l after

6. What is a braai?

at hiS

schoo

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table in exercise

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. What SImilarities

what dIfferences

are there

bortwyourself

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and

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a text to

a on

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and th~d

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website

for your school

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your school

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to

al y r~utme

that mi

there

to

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everything

or different

cou~tht

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from another

a student

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