They Say It Better: Intern Post by Aliska Kilgore
On Monday and Tuesday of this week we met with the students who Kenya Keys has sponsored at Taru Secondary. As I organized each student’s file I read some of the beautiful letters from each student to their sponsors. I realized that these students were writing my blog for me. I want to share prized pieces of a few letters:Rashid Duele: Hello my dear sponsor. The reason to why I had let my pen dance unknown song on this piece of paper like some fiddler in a field is that I am so grateful to you and your family for taking this humble opportunity to sponsor me.Catherine Mwameri: I wish I could know where you live and enjoy it with you. My parents are thankful for your beloved heart. I love you Rich and Chris.Dominic Mangisi: Life at school is good though there are some problems here and there, but I appreciate them as the problems are made for human beings.David Ngao: I fill proud of having such a wonderful, caring, and also hardworking sponsor. I promise you that I am really working hard so that I match with you. (After seeing pictures his sponsor sent he replied) I have just seen one of your daughters and I am much pleased with her. She is a good daughter, pleasant to my eyes. Ali Mwachari (in response when asked, “what else can Kenya Keys do for you”): You provide the fees, the rest is up to me.Gedion Kalinga: You are great people and without you, life to me is not good.Diyo Mrisa asked me after reading his sponsor was pregnant and having a girl: Kenya is not like America, is she making predictions? When I replied and explained what an ultrasound is, Diyo’s eyes widened and his jaw dropped. He replied, “I am being very astonished about this.”Rukia Juma: I am an orphan and I am really missing my parents. They passed away in 2003 and am still missing them too much.Ismail Lewa (in response to seeing a picture of his sponsor in a bathing suit): "Ooooohhh, he is large and very strong.”Mary Nzioka: I usually think about you all the time, and am hoping that you do so to me.Peter Kayeka: I'm so grateful to hear that you had a wonderful wedding and also that your husband is an artist and very talented. Also, am too talented boy. Playing the piano and singing is my talent.Hamisi Bati Chuphi: I am usually playing handball and listening to UB-40’s music.Yawa Mwagandu: At home I lack the basic educational needs, e.g. studying lights, tables and also books but am trying to work hard and make sure that am exceling and fulfilling my goals.After meeting her student, the intern started to cry. Her sponsored student, Juma Chikoza, responded: "Oh no! What did I do?"Salim Kulah: Am struggling on my way to the finish line…Though education is a grindstone, whether it grinds you or not depends on what you are made of. I still have to work hard in connection with good determination, that’s when success will come in… Am surely happy to have your great support behind me. The support which will always push me when am stuck.See! They say it way better than I ever could.