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I was selected to join high school at Ortum Secondary school in the North western part of Kenya, which is
in the Rift Valley province. This was in 1990. Life in this school was tough given that it was far away from home and the
facilities were very limited. The other problem was that the school is located in a semi-arid area and that made life even
more hard because it could get too hot sometimes. The classes were scheduled so that we could be done by lunch time.
The
school however enabled me to think of my future and work hard to gain my goals. It was when I was in high school that I thought
of what I wanted to be in life. I started dreaming of going to the University and pursuing a good degree program.
I did
my final exams in 1993 and passed. I was then selected to join one of the public universities for my higher education.
Maybe the most interesting part of my education was when I was in college. It was a time when I had the
freedom to do what I wanted and make my own decisions about life.
I joined Kenyatta University, located in Nairobi, in
November 1995. Socially, university life is very good.
Academically, it would have been more interesting if the university
had more facilities. Some of us managed to squeeze through by working extra hard, and utilizing any available resourses.
Financially,
many students are handicapt. The government doesn't give enough money to support students from poor families, who constitute
the majority of the students. Many students find it hard surviving in the college because of financial problems.
While
in this college, I did my first degree in Mathematics.
I completed my course work in April 1999 and left the country 3
months later when I was offered scholarship by Syracuse University in the US to pursue an masters degree in Mathematics
Education.
Life at Syracuse was tough, but I believe that I always did my best. I managed to enrol into a second
degree program, computer science. I had dreamed of being a computer programmer and I felt that this was an opportunity
for me to achieve that goal. I managed to survive and to learn a lot. I always remember the many
nights I slept for two hours and had to wake up and go teach eary in the morning. I had to try so hard so that my students
don't realized that I didn't have enough sleep. But I believe that it all paid off. I graduated in August 2002. It was quite
an achievement.
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