Wednesday 2nd October 1999

Dear Diary,

What an exhausting day it has been!

It all began yesterday,when something terrible happened. My baby sister,Dineo,was ill! I had to do something.My friend,Polang,offered to help us and do all the chores.She gave us sweet potatoes and then...we set off.

As we were walking,I saw something that really made me worry,a new grave,a grave for a baby.The whole journey I was worrying but I had to stop worrying and get to Jo'burg and see my mum to save Dineo! Me and Tyro,my little brother,slowly strolled along the dirt track.We didn't

want to use up our energy.

Finally,we reached the main road.Cars zoomed by.Me and Tyro had never seen a car before but we had heard of them.The tar road was so hot,it felt like millions of needles.It was too hot for our bear feet,so we decided to walk on the grass.Its not the fresh,green grass,Its the dry,spiky grass.I started to feel really hungry and so did Tiro so I pulled out a sweet potato from my bag.We gobbled up the sweet potato and then we started walking again.We had been walking for hours now.I began to think I wanted to give up...but I didn't