So when you tell your parents you have been accepted into medical school,everyone is really excited,so excited you wonder if perhaps Bill Gates ordered his bank to give a million dollar handout for every one in your poor family, even the old cock is excited,the one that is running around the yard like it is training for the olympics,except it has no sense to run in straight lines.ahh that cock,the cock that has been running around with all the chickens in the yard is now old,it has done a lot of waiting i tell you,waiting for the visitor from the city who never shows up,waiting for the ultimate sacrifice a cock can make in the chicken world,dying for a much deserved celebration.chickens too,like men get honor by dying for a cause,if you die for such events you die a dignified cock.that is why they don't bother running for their dear life when they know a visitor has shown up..they just show up for the bait,when you start splashing those millet grains and sorghum and maize if they are lucky,anyway like i was saying finally the cock makes it into the three legged pot,you have reached a great success,especially if you are a girl like me,and especially if you are the first in this generation to attend medical school.Nobody thought you would one day be such a great assert,girls after all are more of a liability,and so they say.But you are living proof that once in a while a mother does a good job.after all,the journey from your high school to UB to mahatshe a tsididi aka cold lands has shooting guns everywhere waiting for you to slip and get a big belly that can't be explained by mere fat intrusion or mabele mabelega batho-aka-shake shake.on top of the advice you get from your grandma to keep your money safely hidden from this mapantsula by hidding every penny in your socks,your mama keeps telling you,to not embarrass her,you shouldn't get pregnant before you get married,especially in varsity-where there are a thousand boys who know how to bed a flower but not so many who nurture that growing seed inside your womb.she tells you this,and you want to ask her how you should stop this happening,but you know very well,african mothers do not tolerate this kind of nonsense,if they say do you understand what i am saying,even if you dont,you must say ee mma.so you are just as happy as they are,that your going to medical school shows you understood what ever it is that you were supposed to understand in the first place.so you pick your bags and go to school.but nobody ever tells you this truths especially if no one in your family ever went to medical schools..so you learn this truths on you own..you learn that
1.sometimes you will feel like quitting,you will want to quit so bad your mother's dessert land will look like a million dollar farm waiting for you to come and till it...especially during exam time i tell you
2.you will learn that people don't always preach what they say,take for instance which medical student sleeps for a full 6-8 hours-even if for exams they will emphasize this to patients as part of a healthy lifestyle no one does this,especially the day before exams i tell you
3.being a doctor in training is over rated-its just a simple way of pimping being a maid to white collar status-you will have to deal with vomitus,runny noses,sputum,pooh,foul breath,you name it-but nobody tells you this
and nobody tells you that even worse you will sometimes have to stay over night without sleeping or eating,even maids taking care of babies get off easier man,the crying baby gets tired of crying sometimes and dozes off,and if their employer is really bad,they can alway cook ,dish two plates for themselves ,hide one for later and eat the other one under the detector eyes of the madam, but you,nah ,sleeping is as rare as a moon eclipse with the sun ,and food,ahh food,its something you fight for when the word free and food comes together in the same sentence,ahh you just become a world class missile i tell you
4.you will spend half of your life dreaming about money you will make and every exam will remind you,you might never make any dough-so you start dreaming of second options-eg being an author ..its not even funny-somedays you will make youtube videos showing the world what medical school puts you through-your head on a huge pile of books hoping to God that by some miracle knowledge could just sink in that thick skull of yours-after all your parents back at home are waiting for the day you can finally take them to out,and depending n the generosity of your heart ,you might take them to nandos or if you are stingy chicken licken but if you ar ereally tight fisted even hungry lion will just do fine,after all when you finish in that school of yours they must show you off to the neighbours whose kids have built a pit latrine with a red tile,man do you understand the significance of a tiled pit latrine fully,especially if it is at the corner of the yard,where every passing jack and jill sees it,i mean it doesnt matter if with your first salary you build a two n half ,with a corrugated iron roof,no the truth of the matter is a tiled pit latrine screams rich that house hold is rich-finish and klaar
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