THE UNIVERSITY WITH A DEFERENCE

 Its all about changes and how you take the things and many things you come across. Changes are brought by the people not the buildings that are available. Changes are brought by the real action not the empty promises that are always made especially during the functions with multitude people.
My dream was to join Moi university and surely I made it. The day I received the huge envelop at first I did not believe my eyes but Thought I was in the usual way of building the castles in the air. This was the first time I was referred to as MR.  When I opened the envelop what I so made ma heart beat vigorously. Around me were my family members. This was the time I believed when you do the right thing every body will genuinely appreciate. My mother sister and my younger brother were singing praise song and my father was on his knees praying and giving thank to the almighty.
The awaited time came for me to join the university I had dreamed of. All the people in my village gave me a farewell through a fund raising which was catalyzed by my family background and being the only person from my family and the area as a whole every body came and for the first time I held a lamp sum amount of money.
On my way to the university I was accompanied by my father. when we approached the gate, the first phase I read was the "THE UNIVERSITY WITH A DIFFERENCE". I knew I was going to a place next to heaven because I have had the university students calling themselves comrade and during the strikes their leader always said that " the voice of comrades is the voice next to God's voice.
As we entered the campus I was astonished to see many people moving up and down and the highways were full of so called students who were not in their uniform.I came to learn that university students have no specific uniform to wear.
The irony about the nice building and pavements came when I was to be allocated the room. I  was forced to queue from the time I arrived until night when I was allocated a room in the name of temporary accommodation. I was temporary accommodated for about a week when I was given a room outside the campus about three kilometers away. This is the day I came to believe that money speaks as those whose had swollen pockets benefited with the hostels room.  This is the day when started to the the university's phrase"a university with a difference".
The hard life started immediately I signed in the room I was given. Life outside campus was not easy especially being new in the campus.Life became more terrible than our humble home life. what I expected become the opposite. The pavement roads I thought would be using become the mad roads outside the institution. the lights in the campus became the frequent blackouts in the outside institution rooms. I was forced to increase my expense by buying the things which the others student in the hostels have no idea about them. Gumboots, "Jiko" and Charcoal are some of the things I was forced to buy in order to sustain may life in the Campus.
The life as a first year in Campus was the most terrible life I had never experienced but thank God I was hardened and I believe I will the strongest man in the society and the industry as a whole. NEVER GIVE UP