So much seems to be happening, keepin me so busy, away from my blog and all!! That's more or less the reason why i've not posted in ages. Today, however, i've decided to push aside a few things... to share the exciting... (ok, maybe not quite) , happeninings since i last wrote.
Well for one, i did pass the Ortho CAT i was telling you about. 53% was the score, being in med sch., i'm told gettin over 50 is enough for yo' patients (sic). We were quite a number of us who didn't make it all the way to 60, the bookworms, and the not so bookworms. Enough rationalising.
Back to wat's kept me so quite. Ever heard of SIFE? That's Students In Free Enterprise. What's it's all about is summarised by this extract from their site.
..SIFE team members leverage their personal educational experiences, the expertise of their faculty advisors, the support of their local business advisory boards, and the resources of their institutions to implement programs that create real economic opportunities for members of their communities. The effectiveness of their programs is judged at competition. Each national SIFE organization conducts a national competition, which is judged by leaders from its business community. At competition, SIFE teams present the results of their educational outreach projects and compete to determine which team was most successful at creating economic opportunity for others. SIFE National Champion teams advance to the top level of competition, the SIFE World Cup...
Being the business-minded fellow that i am, i promptly joined. I can't think of any other person from med sch. who felt this was worth their time.. boring lot! So indeed we went forth and "leveraged our personal educational experiences" and changed the world, took part in the National SIFE exposition with top business leaders in Kenya as judges. This is where we put together all our projects with a nice audiovisual presentation runnin in the bk ground (read powerpt presentation), and try and convince the judges that ours had the most impact to our communities.
Hours later, we got to the finals against USIU and Africa Nazarene University. Sadly for them, we were definitely better and UoN-SIFE was declared the winner of the 2006 Kenya National SIFE exposition!
Hurrah! We had a month and a half to put our passports in order, coz we were on our way to
Paris, France, for the World Cup...Keep it here, because when we return we find out,
.. shall i actually make it to France?
.. the university is broke.. again!
.. that'll be 3k for your visa..
.. then cough 20K if u want to survive in Europe!
and many more trials and tribulations that is my life..
Keep it blogged people,
Baadayez,
The WebDoc.
