The silk scarf

Setting
Place: Oriental Plaza,Johannesburg, South Africa
Time: apartheid era

Summary

• The story is about a woman named Mrs Nebo, who went on a shopping expedition with her friend Margaret.
• The two shopped at the Oriental plaza.
• They went with two escorts.
• Mrs Nebo bought a lovely Indian dress at one of the shops and asked for a matching scarf but they wasn't any.
• She went to a shop called Moghul Boutique where she found the silk scarf she was looking for.
• To her dismay she found out that she did not have enough cash on her.
• She asked if she could pay with a cheque but the shopkeeper refused.
• Mrs Nebo felt humiliated and that her integrity was being challenged.
• When the escorts had the noiethey came inside but Mr Sakur was not intimidated by them.
• Margret tried to speak for her friend but this was in vain as the man did not listen to her.
• After some time the traders came in begged Mr sakur to sell the scarf but he refused.
• Finally the other traders bought the scarf and presented it to Mrs Nebo as a gift.
•  They did this because they did not want what happened in page view to happen again.
• Mrs Nebo was thankful and turned to Mr Sakur and said "as for people like you there will be no place for them in the new Democratic South Africa.

Main Character
Mrs. Nebo

• She is a medium height woman, with heavy loins, smooth-skinned completion very pretty.
• She is a wife of Mr. Clive Nebo who was designated the foreign affairs minister in the new government.
• She lives in the white Houghton.
• Mrs. Nebo likes to dress designed quality and expensive fashion clothes.
• She was always accompanied her bodyguards whenever she was on move.

Mr.sakur

• Owns a shop at the oriental plaza where he sells Indian clothes and scarves.
• Has his own rule that has to be obeyed by everyone entering the shop.
• He’s strict and adheres to his own rules
• He never gives up even people are insulting him.
• He is a quit dignified man.

my first expirience

The first time when I created my blogger account it gave me tough time. I had to sit for three good hours. It was saying my password or email one of them was invalid. But I was sure they are correct, because  I just send an email with that mail and it went the person even replied. I had to go back to Gmail and create a new account with new details.  And Gmail took so long to activate the account. I had to wait that's why I had to sit in front of the computer for a long time to create my account, but it was worth it after all....

Through The Tunnel

setting
Summer time at a beach
France

Main Character

• The main character is Jerryhis nickname was !le.
•  Jerry is a 11 year old British boy.
•  he is the only child so on can say he is spoiled.
• he used to stay with his mother.
•  his father died i do not know when, they did say it but i know he does not have a father.
• Jerry wanted to make friends with the big boys on the beach, but they ignore him after discovering he is childish.
•  Jerry is jealous of the older boys; he watches them as they swim through a rock in which there is a narrow underwater gap.
•  In an attempt to become equal to them, he begins to persistently practice holding his breath.
• he could swim but not so good like the  big boys that were at the beach.

Summary

• the whole story is about Jerry on Holiday with his mother in another country.
•  Both him and his mother cared  about each other.
• His mother was worried about his boy being so desperate to explore the new environment but on the other hand she did want to be possessive with him.
•  Jerryon the second day left his mother at a Beach which he found it very boring and for small kids too.
• He went to another beach were he found big boys and he wanted to make Friends with them.
• The boys rejected him when they realist that he was very childish. the boys were swimming through a rock that have a under water gap holding their breath and Jerry wanted to do it too.
• He kept on practising for many days.
• During the first days of this practise he often bleed ed and get strong headaches and feeling dizzy time times.
• One morning however Jerry decided to go exploring near the  rocky bay which took him far until he come across a crowded place were the boys where swimming
• There he swum and met other young boys who used to swim at that place.
• when the boys dived and were in sea for along time, Jerry was scared he thought that they had drowned and did not know if he should call for help. come across  a crowded safe  the big boys