Schools Out!!

Today many schools are closing for the holidays

My kids are over the moon….the instructions are that there is gonna be a party so please dress your child up in party clothes! This we dutifully did …complete with coloured nails for effect…tihihihi

Flashback to my own closing day in primary boarding school….undoubtedly this was my BEST day in school. I did not mind all the hard work washing and scrubbing the desks..chairs…classrooms, and dormitories…the image of all things hanging out to dry is still so vivid in my mind…..the idea was so that we leave them clean before we take the break! I wondered why we just didn’t do this when we opened so that we don’t get dusty desks and rooms??

Next event was to confirm that we (my sis and i) are on the list for those heading out by train to Nairobi…aii glorious days!! I looked forward to this day from the moment I entered the gates for a new term (clearly I didn’t like the school much)….but that was life, and I had been dealt with this primary school so I had to deal with it

 

Times have changed for sure!

The sound of hope & possibility

At one point, I grew up in an estate in Langata and it was right next to Malezi School....In the early morning of a new term, you could hear the lil ones crying since they missed home...and this was a new place for them. With time they settled in and now all you could here was nursery rhymes being recited over and over and over again.

The one incident that makes me laugh till today is when they used to sing......Oh Mwana Mberi, Oh Mwana Mberi..... a popular Luhya song in praise of first borns...but they sang it so slowly that my mum was like...eish...these kids are singing the song as if they are drunkards!!! LOL

Now I stay near a school and I love the sound of children singing in the background and children laughing and screaming with glee during breaks...I really admire teachers and how they can mold children from blank slates to what we know them to be!!!

Am reminded of this today...coincidentally at work, am also next to a school and these sounds fill the air all the time....the sounds of hope & infinite possibilities...

God bless our lil children!