My River of Life

My name is Aphiwe Samantha Jacobs, 24 years old. Living in a small town separated near Cape Town. A life can change anytime when unexpected and the worst can happen. You have to stay strong because what doesn't kill you will only make you stronger and that's how I learned to put things behind me.

I am Aphiwe Samantha Jacobs, I was born in 1989 August 07 in a placed called Worcester. I live with my mom and my older brother, my mom is a housewife and my brother is not working at the moment. I lived with my mother, father, my brother and I'm the last born of four. My father that  time was a truck driver and he will even spend the longest period of 6 months not at home but he would be in contact with my mother just to hear on how we are  doing, he loved us so much especially my brother because he was the one and only son he had. I grew up in the location went to primary up until I was done with the primary, went to multiracial  high school in 2003 and that was my first year in high school. In 2003 April 11, I lost my father in a truck accident that cost him his life and left us fatherless. I didn't get a chance to get to know my father that much, i didn't even have a bond with  sometimes i even miss him but that's all life, that's were my life started to change. Four years after that we went to the location high school because my mother couldn't afford the school fees anymore as my father was the breadwinner so we agreed on that. My first day was a disaster at Vusisizwe Secondary Senior School( Awakening the  nation) in 2006, because i was not used to the way the students were doing things in the assembly it was way too different.  We studied up until matric in 2009 but we didn't make it for the National Senior Certificate. Two years later I worked at BOKOMO FOODS factory just to help my mother in the house and I was the only one working that time. I started working in 2011 May up until 2013 August  before i came to Chrysalis Academy in 07 September 2013. Come 2014 I want to become a Nurse and for me nursing it's not a course but a call or a Social Worker, that's what I want to become in life.

I want to make my mother proud because she had make me proud as her daughter. She raised me struggling day after day but she stayed strong playing a role of being a mother and the father at the very same time.