GermanPupil

Hi guys!
I'm Ina and I'm student in germany. I have english advanced class and we must prepare a presentation. Our topic is "School/System/Pupil in South Africa" (South Africa is the main topic of this semester)
We wrote to a group of South Africans pupil but they didn't write back. Coul you help me?

Here is our mail:

Hey!!

My name's Ina and I'm one of the students from germany doing a project about school life and the life
experiences of young people in general. We already heard a lot about the time of apartheid and post-apartheid
so now we'd like to know something about it nowadays.
So here are a few questions we'd like to ask you...maybe later we'll write you some more
if that's ok. And if you are interested you could ask us some questions about our life in Germany, too...

1. First what's your name?
2. Where in SA do you live? (I totally forgot to ask your teacher )
3. How old are you?
4. Do you like going to school?
5. What languages do you speak?
And which one did you learn first?
6. Do you think it still makes any difference to be black, white or coloured or any other nationality in SA?
And if yes, did you ever experience anything that makes you think that?
7. At your school are the peoples forming groups after their skin colour or do all mix together?
8. Do you have friends from like all kind of ethnic groups?
9. In the area where you are living, are there living people of another skin colour, too?
10. Is it accepted among your classmates etc. if people of your age are together and they're of different skin colour
or doesn't it matter at all to you?

And one last thing, would you send us a picture from you...cause we have to do something special to get a good grade
and it would be really cool if we'd have a pic of you!!!

Bye
Ina


P.s.: My email adress: ina_kruse@web.de


Thanks!

africanhope

Hey Ina. the problem is that it is now the loooong summer holiday in SA. Schools will only reopen in mid-January, andhave been closedfor about 3 weeks now.

I am a bit too old to answer your questions, as my country and the school system changed a lot since I left school.


But if you tell me which age group you are looking at, I will see if I can get someone to e-mail you.

AH

__________________
“The subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into the hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name, of course, is AIDS.”
“From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.”

GermanPupil

We search for students between 15-19 years. That could be the reason why they don't answer. It would be great if you could find someone who could help us.

africanhope

I can'r promise much, as this weekend is the one of the great exodus, when everyone (except me0 goes down to the coast. But i#ll see what I can do. When is your assignment due?

AH

__________________
“The subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into the hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name, of course, is AIDS.”
“From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.”

GermanPupil

I hope I understand it right:

We must show the presentation next friday (in germany it's saturday, almost sunnday).

GermanPupil

Sad that just one person answered. Do you know a message board or forum of african pupil? (it should be very active)

africanhope

Like I said, this is THE holiday, nobody of the learners I know are here, and no board will be active


Sorry

AH

__________________
“The subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into the hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name, of course, is AIDS.”
“From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.”

Bankers_War

Try going to myspace for people of that age-group and just message them, they may be away from school but most people find ways of getting on myspace - so you can contact the same people and bug them during their vacation

Knowing that it's their vacation try and open up more about what they're up to for the vacation than just the dry questionnaire...I'm always enthusiastic to tell foreigners "how it is" about where I am - but I'm a bit out of this age group haha.