Download PDFMy journey travelling to winter school was frustrating because of an explosion that happened in Bree Street, Johannesburg. Mini-bus taxis now take very long to get to town due to some roads being closed off. As a result, traffic was unusually heavy coming into town from Soweto.
I’m looking to grow more capacity in facilitating, to learn more about advocating for the working class. I would also like to learn more skills on how to help with social issues that our communities are facing, especially challenges relating to reading and writing.
What I would like to take back to our organisation is knowledge about how we can best engage and help the community where we give service. This is mostly the disadvantaged families and children who are unprivileged and struggle to access facilities or participate in activities that can develop them mentally, emotionally, and spiritually so they can become change agents in their communities and families.
Here at the Khanya College Winter School, I would like to achieve my goals such as writing better and improving my use of punctuation marks. I also want to increase my knowledge on how to be an independent writer as I wish to have a writing blog someday. I will then be able to send my work and trace all the things I wrote so that other companies can recognize my amazing work, which is what I am actually looking to achieve here at the winter school. It will be an honor to become a Karibu! newsroom writer one day.
Ever since I fell in love with writing I haven’t got any help until today. That is why am so excited to be here and be part of the team.
What we are aiming to achieve in the winter school is to acquire the knowledge of learning more and gain more to share with others what we have learned within the school when we go home.
We were welcomed by the winter school staff, given a tour of the place, and informed about what we would be doing and learning about writing and all that.
The reason why Khanya College has the Book Fair is that they have seen how reading and writing in our communities has been difficult in some families so by trying to fix that we as an organisation will be going back home with the knowledge that we have been fed to go and teach others because you will find that there are many youths struggle with such talents. It is just maybe they are not aware that maybe they do have a talent for writing and becoming something in the near future of writing books or poems.
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