Photo by Oladimeji Ajegbile on Pexels.com After a long exhausting day of documenting interviews, the only thing that was running through my mind while walking towards the bus stop was "Sleep, sleep, sleep and sleep!" Have you ever had one of those days where you barely consider dinner as an option before bed because your [...]
Me? No Thanks
It's 6:00 a.m on a cold Sunday morning my older sister is halfway through the door dressed in a cute black dress with her favorite brown sling bag hanging on her right shoulder. "Agh! Wairimu it's never that serious, we do not always have to be on time. We will get there, eventually!" I yelled [...]
If Only…
Photo by Jess Bailey Designs on Pexels.com Sixteen young teenagers, eight boys and eight girls have evenly been spaced out in their classroom, a metre and a half between each student. Dressed uniformly in sky blue dresses with circular collar flaps (for the girls), navy blue shorts, sky blue shirts (for the boys) with red [...]
It’s The Waiting For Me
Slightly over two decades ago, a young teenage girl named Hadassa was finally in form four and she could not wait to sit for her final exam, get good grades, go to the best university, get a degree, get a good job, meet her prince charming, fall in love, go on romantic dates, get married [...]
It’s Tuta, All Over Again
For the first four years of my primary life, I never attended public school instead I studied from home under a system known as ACE (Accelerated Christian Education) which I found to be fun because I got to set my daily and weekly goals that I worked hard to achieve so that I go to [...]
X’es and Y’s
The 17th day of October, 2003 was a warm, relaxed Friday which I looked forward to because like every other school Friday, most kids in our neighborhood got released from school earlier than other days. I never fully understood the hype that came with being released a few hours earlier from school probably because my [...]
Potato, Potai-to
Yeeeiy! The mid-term break I had been anticipating for since the school term begun was finally here and I could not stay calm. It was only a week and a half in other people's eyes but as far as I was concerned, this break meant ten days of no early mornings, no uniforms, no freezing [...]
A Perfect World
In through the grey metallic gate they walked in one after the other, full of excitement and eagerness to see what the next few hours had in store for them. As they walked passed me, I could easily notice they were so different from each other. One was tall, dark, slender with short rugged hair [...]
Precious Energy
A few years ago, when I was in the sixth grade, my dad thought it was a good time to get my sister and I phones for us to easily communicate with them whenever we wanted to since we studied some miles away from them. Instead of us having to ask my relatives for their [...]
It’s Okay to See Black When Others See Navy Blue
It's on a Saturday morning, one of the most special days in my entire childhood because I got to stay home, rest and do nothing. My sister and I were laying on the a red and blue carpet that had been spread out across the living room, while watching cartoon on the only channel that [...]
