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We
went to Robben Island, which is a prison where they kept blacks. Most of the
prisoners weren't bad; they were just fighting for their rights. Like in America
when the blacks were slaves and they weren't free. That's kind of what happened
here. It was sad going in and looking at the cells. Our tour guide was there
as a prisoner. Also, Nelson Mandela, the old South African president, was in
jail there. They both did nothing wrong. Our tour guide said that every morning
they had to fold there blankets a special way. The prisoners would write notes
and when they were playing tennis, they would split the ball open and put the
note in and hit it to the other side of the wall where the other prisoners were.
They would usually write on the note something like "Is my wife going to
divorce me?" They would write that because the guards would open their
mail and write something else. There were two sections: A and B. Section A could
get visitors and section B couldn't. Prisoners in section B would hit the ball
with the note over the wall and prisoners in A would ask whoever is visiting
next to try and figure out the answer. When we were on the boat to Robben Island
we saw seals and penguins. After that we climbed a mountain called Lion's Head.
It was fun.
We started back for PE with Anna and Uncle Bill.
We drove for 6 hours. We got to the huge mountains and started driving on
cliffs. Our campsite was surrounded by mountains where there was no way to
get out. The campsite was just a cleared area with bush everywhere. No one
was there. We slept on rooftop tents. In the mountains there were leopards,
warthogs, poisonous snakes, and baboons. The next day we drove 5 more hours
to our next camp site which was also in the mountains, except there were also
wild buffalo and kudu. It was fun! In the morning we were driving hoping to
see leopard, buffalo, kudu, and baboons. After we got out of the cliffs and
mountains we drove 5 more hours and got to PE. It's Easter today! |
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