Letter to 18 yr old self!

 2022

Letter to 18 year old Hilda

Its 1992...you have just turned 18 in September and soon after sat for KCSE

Limuru Girls (Chox) has been good to you

You left Chox a more confident young lady than the bewildered one who entered the brown gates 4 years earlier from Mukumu

The future is not certain - but for some reason, you are not scared of it at all

Results come out and soon, you are off to Moi University

You settle in well in Moi and make great friends - but are extremely cautious because of the near horror stories that your sister gives from Maseno university. In your eyes, Trust No One!!

1998 rolls in and you graduate and go into the Big Big World...thrust into women's rights agenda unexpectedly and this defines who you become...a crusader for the rights of girls and women.

Some things you now know for sure

 - be kind to others...you don't know what people are going through

 - value friendships - make time for them

 - its never that serious

 - no matter what happens, the day has to end, and a new day starts 

 - celebrate the way you want and what matters to you :) 

and just like that its 2022 and you are seating here in Nairobi on a Wednesday evening with 9 friends from Chox

See God!

Onto another 30years....

In Fide Vade (In Faith We Go)

First concert post corona

 Today was a great day!

woke up early and dashed off to parklands

Sinach is in town

the concert was nice!

first part was full of music that was too youthful for me!

finally Sinach came on stage

My best song was

'...Walking in Abundance

Moving with the speed of the Holy Ghost!

I AM FAVOURED!...''

Series of Firsts..The Expressway!!

 I was in Westlands today

it was already 5.30pm

was dreading the jam to the other side of town

then boom!

i remembered the expressway

hoped onto it at 1737hrs

and was out at 1748hrs

11 whole minutes!

...

AM SOLD!!

15 years later....

The year is 2006

we have known each other since 1994

this photo probably was taken 1996

campus days

and on this year, 2006,

we decided

lets make it official 

kwani iko nn??

so off we went to dar es salaam to tell my Dad

that was in Aug 2006

he was happy..and we had a great time

next we organise a wedding

so much to do

so little time

so many ideas!

family and friends rallied around us

everyone was happy for us

between Aug and Nov - like 3 months

Nov 24 2006

we tied the knot

apo Our Lady Queen of Peace (OLQP) south B

and reception just near the church

evening we danced away at a place in westlands

heres to many more years

of choosing each other daily

of raising 3 humans

of making each other better!

10yrs later we took this photo

15yrs later we took this one!

So help us God!