THE RIVER BETWEEN

The river was called honia(cure) .It divived the two ridges that is makuyu and kameno.The two ridges never united.This was because of their originality differences.makuyu was against tradition way of living while kameno was against christianity way of living.

WHAT A GOOD FATHER?

Here on earth there are many fathers but my dad is above all.
He is always very kind to me.
He always do to me things that make me happy.
He is a very respectable father because he always respect himself.
For every opinion that we give out, he apreciate it.
He filters his words as he talk & does not make me unhappy at all.
He is a handsome man .
He is the best father I have ever seen


written by KELVIN KERE

MATCHING WITH LIFE CHANGES

I was sitting with my mother at home chatting about changes that are taking place in our day today life experiences. Surprisingly, it was too hard for me to convince her that we should cope with modern life. No sooner had I finished explaining to her than she interrupted me. "what are you saying now? Don't you see that these modern changes are contradicting our tradition facts?. That you can't do what our ancestors used to do?." she said all these while standing and I thought she had gone mad.
"Mother, you should understand that life is matter of creativity. You don't follow what dead peaple used to do or what others are forcing you to do. you do things out of your own will".
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Modern life is a matter of creativity. We have to match with new changes as long they involve innovation and creativity. BE CREATIVE AND EXPLOIT THE WORLD'S RESOURCES RESPONSIBLY

By Ayub Ngugi

Its all computers and learning for Longonot Rafiki club

Its a good feeling to have computers back at the school which had been away for some time for servicing and reinforcement.
We are now accessing the computers fully whereby we have introduced to the TIGed site and we are still practicing on how best we use it.
All the Rafiki members have been created accounts for and we can now chat with each other on site,this is something we are really enjoying. Cant wait to have a partner school from the West.
Big up Rafiki!Keep the good works going.

happy new year from Longonot.

its a great feeling to be back and get the rafiki link club going.
so many good plans ahead for this year.
i would like to thank all those who have been supporting us in various ways so as to make our programme grow.
we hope that we will still be working together this year in coming up with great ideas for implementation and much collaboration.
we as the rafiki link club in longonot are happy to have learnt new things concerning technology.
we have recruited new rafiki members at Longonot who were really eager to join the club since it started which brings us to a total of 17 students.
this years activity started with the introductions and recap of the previous years activities.
we hope for more interactions from you as well as fun!
thanks,
Longonot Secondary School students

Tongue twisters videos

Enjoy tongue twisters videos below from Longonot students, they really had a great fun in recording them, we also hope that you will also have a great fun in watching them.

(Check out for more tongue twister videos from Longonot on our Rafiki link youtube account)

Enjoy!!

RAFIKI DAY

The party started very well where Rebecca introduced us to victor (Motivational speaker of the day) we interacted with Rafiki members from other schools which was a great fun.
Victor taught us very important things about life as youths where we also played some fun games that really made us very happy.
We also enjoyed eating very delicious meal together with the rest of the students from the rest of the schools that is Ngeya Primary pupils and Maai- Mahiu secondary students.
We also had an opportunity to listen to nice music and all of us also enjoyed dancing together, we actually felt like spending all of our time together but it was time to leave for our homes. we greatly enjoyed this day and it was incredible. We can't also forget that we received certificates during this day which was a great motivation to us.

Longonot students.

communication.

communication is the transmission of information from one person to another.
communication can be in different forms i.e
verbal
written
gesture and signs
There are several factors that hinder effective communication eg
misinterpretation
language barrier
poor timing
cost
speed

By Longonot students

EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER

There are thing that makes us feel desperate, sad, afraid, surprised and amazed .People go through difficulties which makes them feel lonely and disappointed .One may fail in this in problems without his her concern.
.Last Friday when Brazil had a match with Netherlands we were escorting our friend past seven in the evening .That was something that I was not used to but it forced me. My parent tried to sooth her to sleep home but she disagreed with them so, my sister and I decided to take her home.
On our way home, we saw a beam of light at a far distance. We couldn’t see clearly because it was too dark .My feelings could not let me move on, but my friend kept on encouraging me. As we were approaching the gate, we suddenly heard somebody behind us. ‘Stop! Stop! Or else I skin you alive,’ a harsh voice came from behind. We let out a loud scream that cut through aerial silent that had roomed the area. My friend’s parent came armed for a safety. The strange man ran away helter shelter after he heard them coming.
We couldn’t go home that night till morning because of fear. From that day I never dared to walk at night.

ROAD CARNAGE IN KENYA

Road carnage in Kenya can be attributed to recklessness among all roadusers.Most drivers are always after accumulating hefty amounts of money into their pockets rather than taking care of the precious lives that constitute the content of all public vehicles.the question still remains,who is to blame on all these road accidents?First of all all drivers should strictly stand against bribery which leaves most of the traffic police unable to curb crime among public vehicles’operators’.Secondly,all unroadworthy vehicles should be removed from our roads.Is it greed for money that keeps us blind from seeing the number of lives that vanish everyday?All of us should join hands and in one voice strand against roadcarnage.

EUROPEAN PRIEST

Once as our history teacher was teaching he gave us a short story concerning a european priest & a lady.The lady's husband had been killed by a european who looked like the priest.Once the priest was preaching about the crucification of Jesus.As he continued,the lady recalled her husband who was killed &she started crying.the priest thought that the word had touched the lady.He preached more vigorousy but the lady cried the more.Finally the priest felt so proud because he had preached a touching word which was not the case.can you imagine all this?.

The ten keys to success.

1 Alawys be determined
2 Never lose hope.
3 In every sititiation be ready to learn something.
4 Do what you think is of benefit to yourself.
5 Never do things because they are being done by others.
6 Always avoid things that may lead to annoyment.
7 Since the life span is very short,one cannot do all the mistakes and correct them,one should always try as much as possible to learn through other people's mistakes.
8 Always be ready to help and to share out what you have so as to creat room for more wealth.
9 Always be ready to be corrected whenever you are in a mistake.
10 Be prayful and fearful to GOD.
BY George Njugi Njihia
Form 2 with assistance from Hellen Wangui Maina
form 3.

HURRY HURRY HAS NO BLESSINGS.

Sometimes people wake up in bad mood and being stressed. Sometimes it is difficult to get a person without mental anguish. Most of the students get stressed and you would see them in class thinking instead of concentrating.When people grow old they become forgetful, and sometimes make mistakes.
This happened to one of my classmates who did a funny thing. She woke up late and wanted toget to school early. She had 20 minutes to prepare herself, take breakfast and rush to school.she prepared herself in a hurry and swiftly got into the dinning table.
In there,got her mum who served her the tea.There were two containers of sugar and salt on the table.The containers were same in colour. Due to her hurry she took the container containing salt and put one spoonful of the salt in the tea. Guess what? mmmmh.....the tea was too bitter!!! She rushed outside and spat it. she washed the cup and repeated the same mistake again.She had no alternative but to go to school without breakfast.
We should be accurate in all our doings.we should be sober always. We always mess up because of carelessness. Remember always the adage that states " Hurry Hurry Has no Blessing".

Nairobi trip with Bodwell students

This was the best moment for Longonot secondary students. this morning they all gathered at CTC office in Maai- Mahiu ready to be picked by the bus for their trip to Nairobi. The bus picked them at around 9am where Longonot students joined Maai- Mahiu secondary students and Bodwell students; they enjoyed riding together in the same bus with schools from different schools, that is Maai- Mahiu secondary in Kenya and Bodwell students from Canada.
They started at Safari walk and later went to the animal orphanage, all students had a fun moment where they were able to interact with each of the students from both Bodwell and Maai- Mahiu gsecondary.
Students also enjoyed eating their lunch together in one of the best hotels and they all enjoyed the meal at the Safari walk restaurant.
Longonot school would like to thank Bodwell for letting the students join them in this great moment, the school also appreciates what Rafiki Link program is doing.

EXAMINATION WEEK.

On matters concerning exams,things have not being bad to some student.Some have done their best but to some,it has discouaraged them.Happy will be those who will achieve what they sow the right seed because they will reap what good they sow.
For any better performances proper preparation should be taken ealier before the examination.work hard!

Rafiki calendars

We have received several copies of Rafiki link calendars from Canada which were designed using photos that students took during the Bodwell trip last year on April when Kenyan students and Canadian students spent sometime together here in Kenya.

Kenyan students were given disposable cameras where they went and took their favorite photos in their homes/ villages which appeared in our Rafiki 2010 calendar. Students who appeared in the calendars were very much happy to see themselves appearing in those calendars, others who did not appear were requesting if they could appear in the 2011 calendars. The school administration was also very much appreciative and they commented that this is a very great way of motivating students.

Some of the students who appeared on the calendars have already graduated from high school and we are very sure that they would love to see those calendars, the few calendars that we had went to one student who spent sometime with Bodwell students last year and the rest went to the school administration.

School is very much thankful for all the efforts that Canada put towards the success of Rafiki Link.

Virginia whose photo appears first on this blog was so happy to receive this calendar and still on this blog there is a video of her sharing her Joy.

Video of a student from Longonot Secondary who appeared on the Rafiki Calendar

Rafiki Link

Hi all, we are very glad to be back at school this year.
Rafiki Link has been moving on well and we have now already learnt how to send emails and we are hoping to have a lot of flow of information between us and the students in the west, we have already brainstormed on what we want to communicate with students in the west and some of the ideas that we have include:

1. Academics
2. games
3. Hobbies
   
4. Culture
   
5. Challenges that students face
6. Environment
7. Politics

we have already put it into practice and we have sent two emails to Bodwell High school since we are working in two groups because we have two discussion groups. below are the emails that we sent:-
1st email
Hi Bodwell students, below is a topic that we would like to discuss with you about air pollution.
Air pollution has increased drastically in the whole world, it has flourished as bushfire due to improvement on the level of technology, in most cases,developed countries have factors that promote industrial growth hence pollution in such countries is very high.

Air pollution leads to destruction of the the protective ozone layer. it corrodes it therefore exposing mankind to high chances like contracting skin cancer due the gamma rays from the sun.

To reduce air pollution all nations should come together and come up with alternative methods of producing enough power to run in the industries that is environmentally friendly since use of fossil fuels is the main cause of air pollution.

2nd email

How are you Bodwell high school student?we are student from Longonot high school ,we would like to discuss with you about drug abuse.

Drug abuse is the use of drugs in an unintended way or use of drug in large quantities.

Drugs are grouped in to two categories.

HARD DRUGS,this drugs include Mandrax,Heroine and Cocaine.This kind of drugs has resulted to negative effects to the country economy and also to individuals.

such effects include;

a. mental problems

b. health complication

c. financial constraints

MEDICAL DRUGS,THIS are drugs which are given at hospitals by doctors.They are only abused if consumed in large quantities.They include;malariaquine.

Youths should join hands and firmly condemned drugs abuse including themselves getting rid of drugs and participating in public awareness compaigns.

We are also looking forward to have a facebook group where we can post photos and tag them, we will keep you posted on all that is happening.

Rafik link

Rafiki link club has been going on well though some little problems here and there, in our computer lab we use power from the solar and sometimes we do not get enough sun light for the whole day. We usually have Rafiki Link meetings on every Wednesday of the week where Mwaniki comes to train us on the use of computers, how to use digital cameras and how to transfer those photos to our computers.

We have been greatly affected in that in the evenings when we usually go for the Rafiki Link meetings, the power from our solar batteries is usually very low and our laptops go off before we finish up on the training, we are hoping that there will be electricity in our school in future.

We now know how to transfer photos to our computers and we are starting to use online spaces next year when we break from school holiday, though it seems that we should have more time for our Rafiki link meetings.