We were sitted with a group of
friends in a hall waiting for dinner/supper .
“Ngai!! Siamini Samantha alifukuzwa!!” (Oh my God, I don’t believe
Samantha was sent away!!) one girl exclaimed, standing up due to what I assumed
was to prepare for the intensity of the discussion that was to begin.
“Imagine alifukuzwa, alienda jana!” (Imagine she was sent away, she
left yesterday) another exclaimed.
“haikosi ni indiscipline!” (It must be indiscipline) came a comment
from the back.
My God, I really felt sad for the
so called Samantha. From what I had been hearing in the past few days, exams
were around the corner. It must have been sad for this Samantha, being sent
away from school (or so I thought), just a few days to exams, because of
indiscipline?! Oh my!!
I decided to listen on. A heated
discussion started:
“Nancy alikua na bahati alisaviwa” (Nancy was Lucky to be saved)
another added her thoughts.
“I hate Ian, I’m sure he is the
one who suggested that afukuzwe!!(sent
away)” another said clearly angry.
I was in the audience of a group
of university ladies, and this discussion was worrying. I decided to ask the
one next to me what had Samantha done.
The answer I got really shocked
me! Apparently, these Samantha and Nancy were participants in the Tusker
Project Fame 5!! I could not help but laugh at myself!! But then you cannot
blame me! With the exams around the corner, I didn’t expect a group of university students
to waste time (yes waste time)
following some television programs faithfully and forgetting the reason for
being in school, BOOKS!!
I will not even start on soaps, soap
operas that cause students to skive evening classes to watch or fail to read
for cats or do assignments because if they miss, they will not be able to
contribute should another “heated” discussion on the said episode start the
following day.
We are students, and what should
come first is books, these other things like programs we can get later in CD’s
in streets for as little as 50 bob or borrow the episodes from our friends. My friends,
students, lets get our priorities right.
When the discussion reached a “hot”
climax, I heard one girl whisper to another, “By the way, si you will help me with you Company Law book, sijasomea cat ya kesho” (I have not read for tommorow’s cat).
And the other whispered back, “OH!
Ata mimi sijasoma!” (no way! I have
also not read)
I felt like saying “I told you so!”
but I din’t, since I had not. Now I will get
reason to, if they read this.