Welcome to the year the world will end.

This is not a fake cry from Delilah but 2012 doth be upon us! Anyway I am not a good blogger, I lost track and then become distracted...sigh. So what’s new? I accepted the teaching post at CBC in Kimberley and as my last post understated-it’s HOT!

Okay lets jump around a bit. I have acquired a nice little toy, the Samsung galaxy tab... Yes the 10.1. So here I sit trying to type my first blog entry on a touch screen. The ANC turned 100yrs yesterday and had, what seemed to be, a bit of a flop in Bloemfontein. The reason I’m telling you this is because I saw this awesome Jet fly over Kimberley, where I now live, it’s called a Gripen, made allot of noise I tell you.

Sorry this is the smallest pic I could find, so apparently this Gripen was in charge of the air security. However, comrades, the people started leaving this Bloemfontein ANC gathering as the president came up-very rude and so did the Gripen, decided to check out Kimberley quickly for any threats. So while he was in Kimberley the President and the big 6(not Julius Malema) decided to toast to 100yrs of ANC-ness. And so aptly the president started cutting from this huge cake and handing out slices of cake to all members on stage from tallest to shortest... remind you of something? No? Our present government? No? A nice little metaphor nonetheless.

So the people were filing our by the tens... apparently they expected 120 thousand people and only 120 pitched... I lie, but it was somewhere down there. The News reporter in all her wisdom then says that the people must be leaving because of the heat. mmmmmm. So did I mention that is piping hot in Kimberley, the professional people at the weather service tell us its only 38 degrees. My thermometer reads 44 in the sun and 38 in the shade. What’s this world coming to when everyone is just lying?

Some teachers in Kimberley warned me that the classes might be bigger than usual this year, to which I responded: "what do you mean by "bigger?"" to which this lovely lady said she expects about 10 learners per class. "Ten hundred" I asked nope, just 10. Lady, do you have any idea what bigger is? The school I come from had 43 learners per class and this year they will have bigger classes apparently around forty eight. Anyway the High school only has 150 learners, you heard me right-not per class-IN THE WHOLE SCHOOL-- bless their souls. Unfortunately I gave up the position to be in heaven first when I left Randfontein high and for what? For immediate comfort...pfffft.

This morning the headmaster came and did the welcoming and then he used a metaphor which I have heard before but which is still beautiful. The metaphor goes like this: life is like a river and most people just jump in and tread water, Tony Robbins said this beautifully. He said, people jump in and get caught up by the current, current affairs, current news, current life... and when they get to the waterfall now they want to grab an oar and start peddling. The headmaster said something slightly different, he advised us to start swimming the moment we hit the water... and sometimes when we not swimming hard enough we will just stand still but even that is better than going downstream... in the famous words of Dory in Finding Nemo, Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming.

Schools start officially on Wednesday. Let’s analyze the positives: I have an air conditioned classroom, with an uncapped internet line... the classes are terribly small…I have a swimming pool in my backyard, yes I do live on campus so everything at the school is now my backyard. Okay I think that’s enough random talk for now.

So why the title? the world will end 21.12.2012-read all about it: http://www.endoftime2012.com/