Yes i am a girl and i live with a girl.... Even my people - andu a gichagi nimoi ati nindiraikara na kairitu, We commonly refer her as Kairitu karia njikaraga nako. She is young this one, early twenties...Just graduated from the university . Bright eyed, strong and definetely ambitious... i miss being like that. You are filled with optimism, your dreams are timeless and you have not faced enough dissapointments to make your faith alittle weak.... Anyway this girl is kikuyu like me but she does not know the language at all.(Apart from haiya, Ngai, Atia atia, and of course all the vegetable and fruits names)
Last week she asked me what 'kuhoha ' means... i said it means to wither. The she told me she thought it meant tired... found it very funny. Our vegetables are 'tired' Interesting all her friends are kikuyu and they dont speak the language at all. Of course apart form the word haiya and the rest! Its interesting that day by day she learns a new word. She still gets shocked that i speak to my dad in gikuyu over the phone... that i can quote bible verses in kikuyu... I wish she could love the language more... love her second name the way is was meant to be and not make it sound like a foreign disease.. 'Shiko' or 'Shixx' . What happened to old plain "Njitagwo Wanjiku wa Irungu". Despite that i identify with her, I understand her generation. Her parents never spoke to he in kikuyu and her efforts to learn were probably comedy time in the house and no one took this learning endeavor seriously.
Its never too late to try... Kairitu karia njikaraga nako nikarageria (The girl i live with is trying to learn gikuyu)
