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Bob Tamasy: Lessons and Tests, Tests and Lessons Thursday, May 13, 2021 - by Bob Tamasy
Bob Tamasy
Can you remember those stressful times of preparing for a test at school? After weeks of attending class, listening the teacher drone on about some topic, reading the textbook and working through questions or equations, next came the test.
I can still vividly recall exam week in college, cramming for one final after another, hoping to absorb and then regurgitate the right answers to earn a good grade. By the time exam week had ended, even without knowing my grades, it felt as if the world’s weight had been lifted off my shoulders. My brain felt like mush, as if I’d squeezed out the last ounces of knowledge.
Kisner displays an impressive range of narrative modes in [
Thin Places], bouncing nimbly between gravity (in her ethnography and her bird’s-eye philosophizing) and comic relief, which she peppers in just when our heads are starting to spin . . . In The Other City, about the months she spent reporting on death investigations and autopsies in Cleveland, Kisner writes: Leaving the office every night, I’d get breathless rushes of reality. That’s a lot like what these essays feel like, too: reminders of the weird in-between feeling of being alive.
The New York Times Book Review With this collection, [Jordan Kisner] takes her place among the next generation of American Transcendentalists, and those true essayists for whom nothing human is too strange to write about . . . She’s one of the few contemporary writers who knows how to bridge spiritual and temporal worlds, but who’s also able to alter and expand our understanding of the metaphors we live by through immers
Mambere School: Where Jomo, James Gichuru learnt how to read
Mambere School now Musa Gitau Primary School in 1936.
Mambere School was established in 1901 in Kikuyu, Kiambu County. The journey of the school started when Scottish missionaries arrived in Kikuyu in late 1890s. A jovial Munyua wa Waiyaki, son of the famous Kikuyu leader Waiyaki wa Hinga, offered them 100 acres of the forest in Thogoto highlands. The missionaries built a church and Mambere school for boys and girls. Here they were taught Christianity as well as formal education. Girls would attend classes in the evening after working for whites. Later in 1909, the school put up dormitories for both boys and girls. Classrooms were however shared.