REMOVE MOTHER TONGUE OUT OF OFFICES OR OUT OF OUR ENGLISH?! A teacher asked the candidates to write a composition about the music festivals, and here is what one boy wrote. “It was the big day of choir in the district. In the zonals, we had passed for district while many schools fell down. I woke up almost early and, after rubbing my teeth, I brushed my shoes with black paint. I then quickly bathed my face and legs. I put on my uniform, then tied the rope of my shoes and went speed to school. ‘‘I reached immediately. All the other musicians were wearing very clean. Girls were wearing tall white pairs of socks and black shoes and the boys had shoes and socks of very many colours. Mr Vasco da Gama, the teacher on week that duty, came to ask me and other musicians: ‘Why are you not working?’ We recommended him that we were going for music that day and he left us there. Mwalimu Jini, our musician teacher reached.He told us that the St Theresa’s school bus will come to collect us. We waited and waited but it did not come. ‘‘So our musician teachers Mwalimu Jini and Mwalimu Chausiku ruled that we practice for the rehearsals. We started with the folk song and set pieces. At 10 a.m. I told Mwalimu Jini: ‘Call the bus to come we live.’ He beat a telephone on his mobile and, after talking on it for long, he said that we walk up to and including the Murram Road. ‘‘The rain had fallen that morning and there were many muds on the road. We succeeded in arriving at the road and sat to wait for the bus. It came running very fast and the driver touched the breaks when he discovered us. He then beat a corner there there on the road until the bus looked where it was coming from. “The bus was tall. We removed the mud on our shoes and climbed. All the chairs in front the St Theresa’s girls were on them so we sat on the chairs behind the bus. The driver stepped on the petrol and the bus started going very speed. Mwalimu Chausiku was beating stories with a teacher of St Theresa as Mwalimu Jini sat very next to a student of St Theresa’s. ‘‘On the road, the police stopped the bus to see if we had tied the belts. They also asked the teachers to show their pieces. Mwalimu Jini removed his piece from his wallet and showed them. ‘‘We reached St Peters Boys at 11.30 a.m. that morning. Quickly, we went to the pulpit and performed our folk song. The spectators inside the hall were very happy; they clapped us makofi loudly. ‘‘We were very tired after this and hunger was biting us. Mwalimu Jini went to purchase lunch in the market. We arranged a line in the kiosk and ate ugali matumbo. It was very delicate even although we were given very few several parts of matumbo. Only Mwalimu Jini was given many parts. The food was very fire and we waited it to relax. Then we returned to the school to dance. But the bus was closed with our objects of dance inside. It was very late when the driver opened and we went to dance on stage quickly quickly. The referees were happy and they were shaking their heads, smiling as we danced. ‘‘Letter, we were called into the room to hear the referees say the score. We were given number one in the folk song, and number two in dance. But Mwalimu Jini said that the referees had seen for us in the dance, because our dance was good than the others. In the folk song, St Theresa’s Girls touched the tail. ‘‘It was darkening when our teachers entered us inside the bus. I had imagined Mwalimu Jini will avoid us from sitting with St Theresa’s Girls but he did not. Do you know because of why? Because he was also in the same chair with Annastacia, the head girl of St Theresa’s. ‘‘Since there was no lamb in the bus, we did our own things inside until when we were about to reach when the driver lighted the lambs. The lamps discovered many pupils holding others. Me myself I did not look it but two students talked that they saw Mwalimu Jini holding Annastacia. ‘‘The bus first departed at St Theresa’s; where the girls removed. We felt not happy to live the girls. Then the bus came to our school. The driver first refused to come because of mud; he thought the bus will stick. ‘‘It was about 1.30 p.m. in the night when we arrived. We asked Mwalimu Jini how we were to go home and he told us to arrange ourselves. He distributed some girls with boys and asked the boys to escort the girls home. He took Madam Chausiku for himself. I myself was not given any girl. ‘‘It was very black that night and I entered this blackness and walked slowly but with my heart jumping inside. All the people had slept down when I arrived and mother did not open the big house after I beat the door many times. I wanted some food as hunger was now biting me. I jogged to my brother’s lion to sleep down.I slept like that.” This boy is waiting to write his final exams in October and he is much optimistic that he will pass his exams!
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 06:26:33 +0000
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