We will be moving at the end of the month, and I asked Divan to clean out his room - throw out anything he will never use again. Only keep what is absolutely necessary.
When I got home from work last Friday, I was greeted by four black plastic bags full of goodness knows what. I know my son by now - there are items in those bags that should not be tossed. He had already asked me where his K53 book was and I had a feeling it was in one of those bags. (He's writing his learners licence on the 24th).
I asked him to go through the bags with me, just to make sure that he didn't need anything in them. The first bag was full of old shoes and clothes. Fair enough - we can give those to someone who needs them.
The second was full of paper - old newspapers, old matric exam papers etc. Cool - toss them.
Then we got to the third bag - school books from last year, text and exercise books. One by one he paged through them..... nicely covered exercise books. "This was my Life Orientation book" - two written pages. "This is my maths lit book" - Half of the pages empty. Then he smiled and said "and this is my Afrikaans book...... empty except for the second page, it says : Assignment 2.1 No one knows whats going on here........."
And you ask me why I was so stressed last year??????
By the way.... the K53 book was in the third bag too.
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