It all begins when her name is drafted in the newspaper amongst the best students in the country. She is filled up with joy and starts jumping up and down and as happy as nobody’s business. Her parents are all in smiles and walk heads high in the village. Her father will rush to the nearest shop and buy for her new clothe as a reward for her marvelous performance as well as being the top student in the province.
People in the village soon start singing her name to the extent some will name their children after her. Huh! She is on the mantle and will get attentions of all kind ranging from praises from old men to monkey business. Young men will start naming her in their agendas and one will not be surprised if he/she finds some faces making impromptu visits to their home in the pretext of spreading the gospel.
Word spreads that she had got an admission letter to Moi university ……………………a university with a difference………… the villagers start retorting “she will be a doctor, she will treat our children”. She starts planning for the trip to rift valley. On one incident she goes to her former school and acts as a celebrity. She proceeds to advice the innocent faces glued to the books to emulate her.
A week later her parents embrace her and give her all precautions and urge her to stay chaste and act decent. She nods in agreement. From her village comes the university, she finds high buildings and people of different cultures and religion all over as well as old men and women in class. Her shape explains everything about her and looks down once a smartly dressed young man passes beside her and turns to take a quick look back when he is gone.
After weeks of orientations she begins to camouflage with the campus girls and leave whatever she learnt from the village. She starts to dress in a miniskirt and tight t-shirts. I once heard that a miniskirt is long enough to cover the subject matter but short enough to stimulate interest. Dressed like her fellow pretty ladies she goes one step forward and walks beside them so that she can get noticed. Huh! Her prayers are answered and she gets back some funny gestures of all kind from black and strong to tall and slim. Later she meets this young man and he starts addressing her all in smiles he hugs and holds her tightly, takes her to bed and summarizes the full story for her.
Weeks later he starts getting out of her world and rarely comes to see her. He fails to pick her calls she gets frustrated and goes to confront him in his room only to find he is in bed with another one. She almost faints and rushes out of his room in tears. She begins wailing and calling him all names. Her roommate consoles her and urges her to be strong……she feels dumped ,wasted and unwanted.
Her situation goes from bad to worse when she finds out she is pregnant. Her tightly held body is all of a sudden broken into pieces. She is no longer the same beautiful girl from the village. Her friends will look down on her and feel pity for her. They sympathize with her but not empathize with her. She was not clever like the campus girls. The campus girls are the ‘no strings attached type’ of girls that act like butterflies going from one man to another.
Pregnancy can kill someone’s hope and ambitions and kills the spirit of a person. The killer disease AIDS is waiting at the door. The first years are the main victims, symptoms are appearing. Ma dear ladies, keep hold of your dignity and avoid the agents of AIDS in campus. He will give stories of no basis and say to you lines from the soap opera movies. Say No! be serious don’t give yourself to him. Avoid him avoid pregnancy and AIDS.
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