KEEPING FIT.

People engage in different activities to keep fit and stay healthy.Some follow a strict diet like eating a grain of rice per day or drinking recycled dish water.Others participate in various sports and games.

One of the most confusing sports is swimming coz sometimes you do it for fun,other times you do it not to die.Another interesting sport is Karate,for those of you who don't know;Karate is the ancient Japanese art of getting people to buy lots of belts.White,yellow,gold,orange,blue,purple,brown,red or/and black belts.


I used to be in the school volley ball team.There are 2 reasons why I am no longer a member:
1.Academics-books made me busier than a one legged man in a ass-kicking contest.
2.Lemme tell you a story....

Some few years ago we went for a tournament at Egerton University.We were up against the hosts in our first game.Our first shock of the day came after we saw the Egerton squad.It had two Shaquille O'neils,a Peter Crouch,the big show and several Manuel Neuers.We wondered amongst ourselves if this was Egerton University South Sudan branch or what.

Things got really thick after the match kicked off.The ball was being constantly smashed into our side of the court at a malicious speed and force.One deadly ball caught one of our players on the chest.He immediately sunk into the ground.We rushed to the scene praying that he had not acquired some artificial form of pectus excavatum.His chest had became erythematous on inspection.On palpation it felt hotter than the bottom of a HP laptop.

Another one of our boys got hit so hard on the head that when he finally got up,he walked like a newborn calf.

After witnessing the attempted thoracotomy and craniotomy,I told my fellow substitutes "acheni niende hivo nakam." I then teleported the hell out of that place.There was no way I was going to play against those Egerton giants.I was not born to just one day die from the actions of some very tall strangers.Something which I even feared more than death was the Egerton guys deciding to hit us below the belt(pun intended).

I came later towards the end of the 2nd set(of course,we obviously lost the 1st one).Our boys were doing a wonderful job:ducking deadly balls which most of the times were aimed at their vital organs.

A small cheering jeering squad of Masinde Muliro University chics had gathered around our players.One pretty chic asked me why I wasn't playing.I lied that I had sustained a terrible injury during training but quickly proceeded to explain that the injury prevented me from playing only,I could perform other 'social activities' effectively.She smiled sheepishly and went on to cheer our boys who were still break dancing in the court avoiding getting hit.

After that game,the whole team was ready to go back to Eldoret even if it was on foot.

Since I quit playing volleyball,I've tried to remain fit.These are some the activities I do:

1.Sprinting to those 7 am classes(coz most probably I have woken up at 6:48am)

2.Doing gymnastics in the bathroom every time the cold water touches my trapezius muscle.

3.Lifting.....heavy pieces.....of ugali from the plate into my mouth.

4.Running out of answers during clinical examinations.

5.Chasing after money in the local betting sites.

6.Jehovah's fitness(see what I did there)-being inherently fit due to the grace of God.

So when you greet me 'sasa?' I genuinely reply 'fiti' coz I know I am  fit AF.