Sorry for taking so long to write the update on my progress and success in university. Okay, here goes my story… we had sports event during the weekend. Students from various campuses of Moi University had come for athletes’ sports event over the weekend. We had students from Main Campus, Town Annex Campus, West Campus, Town Campus, Kericho Town Campus and of course, my beloved Kabianga Campus. It was really nice to meet my former school mates, with whom I spent one month of my life. They remain dear to me. When I first arrived at Chepkoilel, I could not secure accommodation immediately. I stayed with a friend of mine who was also initially admitted in Kabianga and transferred here before. I ‘pirated’ for several days until I was able to secure accommodation with the university, about 2km from the campus. They have rented hostels here to accommodate those students who could not secure accommodation within the campus, despite having paid the fees. All in all, staying a little bit far from the campus is not having a major negative impact in my studies; I am almost catching up with the rest. After all, there are others who stayed farther than I do from the university, yet they made it. Lectures have been interesting. Learning environment is great. However, there is always a however. Sometimes, due to the sky-rocketing number of students, without a marching increase in resources, there is congestion is some lecture rooms. And sometimes, one can even miss out on space. Also, if one stays at the far back, the lecture is sometimes not audible enough. But I always ensure I stay at the front. Something else. Since we never did any practical when I was in Kabianga, they are quite ahead here, in science-based courses, such as Botany, Zoology, Physics and Chemistry. However, I have already made plans with the respective laboratory technicians, and plans to cover the undone experiments are underway. I hope that I will have covered all the undone work, because CATS are beginning this Friday. Some classmates are unbelievable. I particularly have a friend of mine called Silva, who is also taking Biochemistry. We normally discuss the relatively difficult subjects, such as Botany and Zoology together every evening. He is such as clever and a helpful person. We also have study groups, where we do groups assignments together. We normally divide the work amongst us all. Each does his part. Then, we meet, discuss, type out the work and then present it to the lecturer. Assignments and CATS contribute 30% to our end of semester examination. Something else that makes Chepkoilel different and special is its variety. There are over six thousand students, from in and out of Kenya. Many are Christians, while some are Muslims. They were even fasting in their Holy Month. It gives one the chance to interact with and get to know people from different backgrounds with different cultures, lifestyles and beliefs. Also, unlike in Kabinaga, we have a very big library, where we normally do our research. However, for now, we first years can only read but cannot borrow books. Student’s identity card is usually used when borrowing books, which haven’t yet been processed. By custom, they normally take a year to process, which means that we can only borrow books as from second year. A variety of games and sports is also offered. There is football, basketball, volleyball, handball, rugby, chess, tennis, table tennis, karate and taekwondo. I have a passion for soccer – I am a goalkeeper myself. This semester, we are going to have Inter-University Competitions in East Africa, in which the finals are going to be held in Dar, Tanzania. Each university is represented by a team from one of its campuses. For instance, in Moi University, there will be a qualifying tournament to decide which team is going to represent the entire university in the various games. All in all, here I am in Chepkoilel, living my dreams. You really do know, how I love being in such as place as this. I can now say that dreams come true, and that God really answers prayers. I now know by heart that God can raise one from nothing to somebody, and that the cry of the poor shall not be forsaken forever. Sometimes I sit in lecture hall and remember those days when I was young. I very much wanted to be in university one day that it used to hurt, and then I say to myself, “Hey, I am in Moi University, doing Biochemistry. I am the happiest and luckiest guy!”