Do you recall the climb up Primary School so aptly represented by the boy and girl taking a step each year on the cover of Primary English?
For many young people, that journey began with 'Hallo Children', your first English textbook. 'Like a lot of my friends, Hallo Children enthralled us with the mundane lives of Mr. Kamau, Mrs. Kamau and their children Tom, Mary and Peter. They were all speaking to us and saying, Hallo Children! As we would later learn, Mr. Kamau was a bus driver, Mrs. Kamau gave him a banana for breakfast, Mary was lazy and could not be woken up by countless domestic animals, Tom was prone to loosing pencils and Peter, the baby, loved playing with ink.
Then came 'Read with us' in standard two where Tom, Mary and their friends eat some grass soup and get awfully sick. Compelling eh?
We eventually moved on to 'New Friends' in class three.......things get hazy and muda si muda, we are almost 'Stepping Out' in class 8. Over the years debates happen, horrific dreams are retold and Mbogori cooks lunch.
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I remember the grass soup saga. It was very compelling lol, Thank you for joging the hazy memories :) brilliant blog!
ReplyDeleteI remember the Mbogori cooks lunch in class 5 cz we even did a practical of it.my first time to cuk mukimo,hehe.that wuz fun!
ReplyDeletelets Pretend (Ithink), Maching Ahead, Neighbours, One More Step and lastly Stepping Out which had the Hare and the Inkalimeva and Daedalus & Eucarus)
ReplyDeleteThen there was Fatuma and the Jini.
ReplyDeleteDo you guys remember Safari Book one and Read With Us
ReplyDeleteAnd a poem about Dr. Hare who stabbed his patient when he couldn't find a cure. have been googling that poem all over but cant seem to get it.
ReplyDeletehehe, Muthoni's Visitors,a library lesson, an exhibition, an English test, Mbogori cooks lunch, along walk, the lion, the hare and the antelope, conserving the soil, moving to the countryside, Nandwa Learns a lesson, a visit to the city, road Safty,using the telephone, cheka takes a photograph,a recorded lesson, take Great care, The sheep, the lost calf,catching a thief, house on fire, a visit to the port,learning to swim,fatuma and the jini, list of contributors and acknowledgement 😜😜😜😜
ReplyDeletedid i forget anything?
Deletethere was also, The drama Festival
DeleteEwoi & the giant
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