Upper Hill School 1985 -1989
Upper Hill School, so much to say , such limited space. Arrived on a february morning after being selected by the schools board after the standard 8 exams. We had expected to wear trousers but to our dismay, we were made to wear shorts, kaptulas yani... God bless Mr igobwa, we petitioned him as rabbles and before first term was out we were allowed to wear trousers. Pity the guys whose parents didnt see the need to spend more money when the shorts were still acceptable. No need to prolong their pain.
My teachers came in all kinds and sorts, the ever hilarious chemistry teacher Mrs Barbara, who could just never give David Kiarie a break. Always picking on Deu.. Mr kiplagat, class teacher for a record four years, the guy was more than a teacher , he was a buddy. there was the hot art teacher Miss Maingey who chatted freely with form sixes and Mr Ngaruiyia but looked straight through us form ones. I remember one dude deliberately dropping his pencil in an art class and , bending to *pick it up*. The dude ended up getting a tongue lashing. The poor guy was so humiliated, I wonder what he had expected, a date???. Something tells me it was either Mbau or Olembo...
Dedication to our departed teachers who impacted us greatly, Mrs Akolo, Mr Muganda, Mr Monda... Shaped our lives the right way.....
I remember playing rugby with the likes of osimbo, in form 1 he could tackle all form sixes.. osimbo my boy... niva, olembo, ochonglo and ralph always going after muso chics but avoiding the ones from Muso of tao like plague.. of course some not so jisty form four and six guys had chics in muso of tao.. really cruelhow we dissed them...
Upper memories, being made a prefect, skiving with the cooks bicycle on a closing day from 10 am till 18 pm. the poor guys had wanted to go to shags... Kinyash humiliating Muturi and the chic from State house in interact. Philip Ondeng making it worse.
And of course my sons Mr Odero... Amuyunzu.. i think the guy wasnt serious as a teacher...
long live Upper.. lest you think otherwise there was studying also...
posted by Stanley Ngaira at 1:41 PM
2 Comments:
Ngaira...good to read your Blogg..and nice to have the Upper gate in front...it reminds me that day when I made you and Olembo do chura hops for coming late to school...we prifo's had it all...especially the six formers..also mbau trying to get more chipos on friday as a form 4 prifo..otherwise good to hear from you..any news of other chaps?..its Paul Mudondo (pauljmud@talk21.com)here..
Kwenda huko....it was Olembo and not me who dropped the pencil on Miss Maingey. I was in her good books and had a fair share of her than u guys...remember she was my swimming coach and thus i had the opportunity to see all those curves up close and personal and only covered in a wet swim suit....wa wa wa what that did to my young impressionable mind :)
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