In 2015, FunDza ran a Reading For Enjoyment Campaign with False Bay College. Each week on a Friday, FunDza went out to the college and made reading fun for the students. We played games with them, read stories, wrote stories together, and collected these activities to share with you.
We read “Sometimes when it rains” by Gcaina Mhlophe to the students and asked them to write 4 stanzas of their own poem. They had to choose between “Sometime when I’m sad” and “Sometimes when I’m angry. These are their poems.
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Jody Dillgee
Sometimes when I’m angry
I feel like drinking brandy
Sometimes when I’m sad
I feel like playing with a band
Sometimes when I’m angry,
I like punching you in the face and letting go of all my stress
Sometimes when I’m sad
I consult with my dad
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Beauty Makka Colette
Sometimes when I am sad
I feel bad
Sometimes when I am sad
I keep what is bothering me inside
Sometimes when I am sad
I can’t even utter a word
When I am sad I feel disturbed
Sometimes when I am sad
friends are few to talk to
Sometimes when I am sad
I go to the gardens and sing to the birds
as loud as I can, when I am sad
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Zikhona Silimela
Sometimes when I am sad
I like to cry
Sometimes when I am sad
I like to sing or listening to music
Sometimes when I am sad
I like to look my face in the mirror
Sometimes when I am sad
I like to drink a lot of water
Sometimes when I am sad
I like to booze
Sometimes when I am sad
I like to stay alone
Sometimes when I am sad
I like to call my sister and talk on the phone for hours
Sometimes when I am sad
I just laugh
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Amkelani Mokhomla
Sometimes when I’m sad
I wonder what I will do
If I don’t calm down what will happen
Sometimes when I am sad
I see people do things I would do,
things that make me sadder than the day I was born
Sometimes when I am sad
I eat and eat more than I ever wanted before,
my light goes shut when I’m sad
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Victor Morius
Sometimes when I am angry
I get so angry that I scream
to the point where I think heaven above can hear me
Sometimes when I am angry
I feel mad, mad at myself
Sometimes when I am angry
the only thing that can pull me out of my misery is my music
Sometimes when I am angry
I think can overcome, I am I conquer
I am victor!
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Leticia Manzana
Sometimes when I am sad
I like to dance
Sometimes when I am sad I would sit alone
and listen to soul music
Sometime I am sad
I feel unwanted and I want to be left alone
Sometimes when I am sad
it’s because I watch a movie that touched my feelings
Sometimes when I am sad
I like drinking water
It helps me heal my soul
Being sad is not a good thing for your soul
Sometimes when I am sad
I would feel I should scream out loud
Sometimes when I am sad
I like to swim because it makes me loosen my body
Sometimes when I am sad
I would like to fly
so that my body and soul would be at ease
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Bongiwe Tenge
Sometimes when I am sad
I just want to be alone
Stay in a quiet place just cry for myself
Sometimes when I am sad
I wish the world would end
Wish no one talks to me
I sometimes blame myself
Wishing to go away so that no one can find me
Sitting at the beach makes me feel better
Listening to the waves
Wondering if I’m the only one person
who feel like this when I am sad
Noise of cars and people make me feel
like I can run away shouting
but you know what
I’m proud of myself
I’m not doing something bad about it
I am proud of me
I am still shouting, I’m moving forward by myself
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Mbokodi Lusanda
Sometimes when I’m angry
I feel like I’m losing my mind
thinking of breaking households
I stay in my room listening to music
Sometimes when I’m angry
I feel like going away
Thinking about those
who don’t have people to say sorry and hold them
I am lucky because I have someone to say sorry to
Sometimes when I’m angry
I look ugly
I feel like staying alone and changing my face
Sometimes when I’m angry everybody is my enemy
Everything is annoying
I run in the rain so that they cannot see that I’m crying
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