SOME ADVICE TO THE FIRST YEARS.

Congrats for qualifying for university and once again welcome to Moi University College of Health Sciences .Below is some advice which  I thought may be of some help as you finalize your settling in.I hope I am not  too late.

1. Respect your colleagues whether their former high school was called Kulemewa Day and Sunshine or was a prestigious academy.After some time you will come to realize that your former high school doesn't matter that much anymore.
2. Be yourself .Do not try to copy other peoples` lifestyles or reading habits.Most of your classmates are as equally confused as you.
3. In Med school you have to work hard .Don't be fooled by the fact that the pass mark is 50%.Even Raila can tell you that sometimes getting a mere 50% aint that easy.NO offense `Baba.'
   
4. For the chics you will have a horde of undulating admirers,especially the seniors(read Team Mafisi)My advice to you;the fear of the rod is the beginning of wisdom...*evil laugh*...
5. Outside catering (read buying food from outside) is more expensive than cooking.Choose wisely.
6. For the Mututho haters,drink responsibly for the sake of your livers and wallets.
7. HELB money is yours to spend and nobody is taking it away from you,so why blow it like a running nose?
8. For the self-proclaimed  `bedroom mburis' beware of  a big disease with a small name.
9. Stealing here in campus is one of the 1000 ways to die.If caught you will be dead before you scream abracadaver!
10. Don't ignore your spiritual life; whether a  Christian,Muslim,Hindu or even a  believer in African Traditional Religion.Try to be close to the Supreme Being  you profess your faith to .Smooth life in this institution requires divine intervention.
11. Have fun and enjoy yourselves.Later you will come to miss your first year in Med school(except  for guys in Physiotherapy and Dentistry ..hahaha!)

Life in Med school is what you make it.It`s your responsibility to ensure  that you have a good experience for  the 4+n/5+n/6+n years you will be in this place.All the best.

COLD WEATHER AND ME.

Eldoret can sometimes go chilly  until you start wondering whether some continental drift occurred overnight and Eldoret Town got pushed to the North Pole in the process.Below are some  lifestyle changes I usually  make in response to the extremely cold temperatures :

1. Outdoors I dress like an astronaut;baggy jumpers,woolen socks and sometimes very peculiar scarfs.Okay,I think from this description we should replace the word astronaut above with watchman.
2. Indoors am usually wrapped with blankets from  head to toe like a mummy. 
3. Taking a cold shower is like participating in the ice bucket challenge.Let me put it this way;if taking cold showers during the cold season made people millionaires,I would be broke as a Nairobbery victim.  

4.The rate of taking `passports' increases rapidly like the heart rate of a man watching Nicki Minaj's Anaconda music video.

6.Spray cans and cologne bottles are my new friends.

5.Washing items like sweaters,blankets and towels is never in my to-do list during the cold weather. By the way I need a new towel.The last time I washed my current towel(I would not say that the water turned dark like Guinness Lager after rinsing it),it decided to go H.A.M.Yeah,the thing kaukad so much after I hung it to dry that it could stand own its own against the wall like a mabati.I had to be cautious not to get  cut while drying myself  for some days!

Those are some of the facts about me and the cold weather.Some facts may have been left out due to their explicit content.