Train: School Field Trips
The train was also the affordable transportation that most local Primary Schools depended on for taking their students on educational field trips. I never got a chance to…
Recycling Old Newspapers
After the newspapers were read and done with, here are some of the other vital jobs they were used for: Pot holder. Old newspapers were like hand mittens…
OlKalou District Hospital
I still remember the hype all over OlKalou when the new District Hospital was opened to patients in mid 1970s. Everybody, all of a sudden had an “ailment”…
Residential Housing Boom
The hospital also brought a business boom in OlKalou. All those “foreign” professionals at the hospital needed places to stay. The hospital had a staff quarters but that…
Inferiority Complex: High School
The same thing happened when we went to high schools in Central Province and met kids who grew up in Nairobi and other big towns like Nyeri and…
Inferiority Complex: Lessons Learnt
The circumstances above taught me a very worthy lesson. The town people we envied in OlKalou were really beneath us economically, and we were their envy but we…
No Schools For OlKalou Children
OlKalou town had only two Primary schools, which are still standing today. AC and St. Joseph. There was no high school in OlKalou. The closest high school was…
Unfair Education System
I think of my first term and year in high school and I recognize how unfair our education system was, still is in some areas. In the National…
Clarion Call – Rural Entertainment
Today, I know there is plenty of entertainment to go around on TVs, DVDs, Blue Rays and streaming devices, but I am sure there is a service that…
Lessons From Their Sharing
Still, my young brain could not fully comprehend why we only had one of everything, including the smallest and cheapest of items like knife, axe, scissors, comb or…