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"Why I Love My School"

 It's 5:00am and the alarm from my watch rings, upon opening my eyes I hear the sounds of birds from a very quiet morning at Mtakuja Secondary School, It's another exciting school day. I wake up, I get ready and go for the morning devotion to thank God for the brand new day. After the morning devotion, I go straight to the class for private morning studies to remind myself of the concepts that I learned about in the previous day.  At 8:00am is when the normal classes officially begin, my mentors get into the class and we start learning. I normally love class time, and this is because at Mtakuja Secondary School we use  Quest Forward as a learning platform. Quest Forward Learning is a learning platform that emphasizes on the acquisition of skills, habits, and mindset.  what's so interesting about Quest Forward Learning is, as learners we can still work on our own even in the absence of our mentors, this was evident during the COVID-19 Pandemic where all schools in Ta...

The Future I Desire

It was the 16th President of the United States of America, the late Abraham Lincoln who said, "The best way to predict the future is to create it" . As a secondary school student, and a girl from a very humble Tanzanian family, there is only one question that used to strike my mind and never left me in peace; the question was none other than "What does the future hold for me", what will be the destiny of my life after my school life is over. It was after a long time of thinking and study that I came to understand that, every individual hopes to have a good life, and the good life we desire will never come to us by chance rather we have to take steps to create it.  If you are a student, and you wish to create your future be a good listener; listen to those who have already achieved whatever that you want to achieve. Have role models, mentors, and learn from them; take time to identify the things they did to be where they are today and follow in their footsteps.  Lear...