My life and my desire to speak! (from 2012 archive)

In the year that Ronald Reagan took oath of office as the 40th President of the United States, Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer walked down the aisle and married at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, Ghana's civilian president Hilla Limann got ousted in a bloody coup by former military ruler Jerry Rawlings, and the same year that Elizabeth Carr, the first U.S. test-tube baby, was born to Judith and Roger Carr, a loud cry confirmed the birth of a baby boy – who was named Titus Mutwiri

Fate had it that due to my parent’s jobs i had to live with my Dad on the slopes of Nyambene hills 37 kilometers away from my Mother. This was so out of the blue and seemed “pure alice in wonderland”. At Muciimukuru primary School Mrs. Kangai my Nursery school teacher divided the classroom floor according to the number of pupils and the soil was our book, and the finger was our pen. My Dad taught me everything a young man my age needed to know including cooking. I remember with nostalgia the first ugali I cooked while in fourth grade that tasted like hardened porridge

My childhood plays involved hunting gazelles in the Nyambene forest with my boyfriends under the camouflage of fetching firewood thanks to the ferocious dog that belonged to my friend Koronya Marete. I also enjoyed rearing rabbits and especially the white furred New Zealand white.

In my 6^th grade I got a chance to represent my primary school during the music festivals with the famous poem of Elizabeth woodsworth “If all the good people were clever and all the clever people were good the world would be nicer than ever we thought that it possibly could”.

In Meru High school I developed the hobby for public speaking. My pursuit for leadership found me scoop many responsibilities like the dormitory captain, the Christian Union treasurer, Science club spokesman, broadcasting club chairman, I was also a good baseball player. My education journey saw me pursue a Diploma in Medical laboratory Sciences, and landed me a job as a technical person in a research project at Kenya Methodist University, Meru Campus. While at KeMU i pursued a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and later enrolled with the Institute of tropical medicine of Jomo Kenyatta University for Masters in Medical Microbiology while pursuing a 2^nd Diploma course in Project management at the Kenya Institute of Management. I am currently working as a teaching assistant in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at Kenya Methodist University – Nairobi Campus. My recent visit to Ulm University – Germany the birth place of Albert Einstein transformed my view of science to the better.  Between Mondays to Friday you will find me either instructing undergraduate students at KeMU or AMREF, or characterizing some DNA in the microbiology laboratory KEMRI HQ in pursuit of identifying some genes of infectious parasites. On Saturdays I join my teammates to play baseball at Karen, and on Sunday I will be dancing my way to the throne at Nairobi Pentecostal Church in Karen.

During my stay in meru, love blossomed between me and a young girl that I met first on the Thursday, 8^th day of June 2006 at 5:15 pm. I convinced her we could live a manageable life together, and true to my conviction, after four years of sweets and babes, we said yes I do on 21^st August 2010.

God blessed us with our first born daughter, Natalia Mwendwa, who has just turned one.

My desire for public speaking got compounded while watching an interview on NTV and some voracious thirst, clutched my gullet. I purpose to go under the elephant, provided, I come out a better speaker but if the elephant tramples on me and I die, I will know I died trying.

When I visited one website for public speakers I found a testimony of a young man whose desire was to know how to speak, and he says “I want to speak and presidents listen, I want to speak  and men cry, I want to speak and wars cease” and I asked what else do I need. I am here because I want to know how to speak, now that I know how to talk!