Ever watched the movie sarafina, well my mum and I watched it 3 times in cinema when I was barely 5 years old. Since then I have either kept a VHS tape or DVD nearby just in case I want to watch it. For those who know all the lines by heart, remember the day that Miss Masumbuga's ( Whoopie Goldberg's character) class needed to come up with an idea for the school show and she walked in late, she screamed ' Better late than never'. That question came in an exam that I hadn't read for when I was just a kid and I remembered the answer.
Who gave you the talk? You know, about the birds and the bees etc. Well I don't exactly remember the actual show but I did learn quite a bit from 7nth heaven. I didn't have to go through the traumatic experience of getting the talk from my parents.
Who taught you how to tie a tie? My father tried to teach me but I kept tying fat notes. Remember that scene in true lies where Arnold Schwarzenegger was tying his tie in the mirror before he left for work, I tied my first proper knot by watching him do that.
My day taught me how to tie my shoe laces and I have never forgotten that day.
There was an old action movie called fifth fifty that the whole family loved to watch. The main characters were two mercenaries and a subplot of the movie was that one of them fell for the main female character who ended sacrificing her life to save the rest of their army during a fire fight. That taught me sacrifice, loss of a loved and the movie in itself taught me comradery(if that's a word) .
My most defining feature, my accent. As a child I would wake up earlier before everyone else to watch tv. I would have to be pried from the living room with an earthmover to get me to sleep. In that time I developed a heavily American accent that took me 4 years at a high school in the middle of the bush to work down.
Thank God for the televisions out there that made me coz I kinda grew up in east lands Nairobi so without the TVs I shudder at the thought of how I would have ended up.
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