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Journey Through 8-4-4    1. Experiences as a Primary School Pupil - Nyagondo Primary School 1.1. The Curriculum Content and Pedagogy Nyagondo Primary School is a mixed day Public School in the Western Parts of Kenya. During my 8-year stay in the school, the curriculum and teaching styles were fixed and similar to any other public primary school in the country. The teachers would come to class and sing all the content to us, as we listened motionlessly the whole time. Sometimes the 35-minute lessons felt like forever as the Geography, History and Civics teacher went on and on about how the world is part of a solar system or what the country has achieved since independence or flew like 5-seconds when the Mathematics teacher was singing the beautiful song of algebra and arithmetic. I was so in love with mathematics that when, in Class 5, the teacher asked the class to memorize the whole multiplication table in one week, I managed to do memorize and sing it in...

About Kenya My Home is Kenya Famous tourist destination for its amazing wildlife and scenic natural countryside, Kenya is an East African country that sits on the equator and whose coastline caresses the Indian Ocean. It is home to the 8 th wonder of the world – the annual wildebeest migration .  Historians and archaeologists, furthermore, found evidence from over 3 million years ago that would suggest Kenya was actually the cradle of humanity (Belgians might have been Kenyans at some point that many years ago then). To the more recent history, the former British colony has had a commendable growth on the Educational as well as the social and economic fronts. The most noteworthy dates in the Kenyan history from the 20 th Century include the Independence year (1963), the birth of multiparty democracy (1991) and the worst terrorist attack in the Country´s Capital(1998).  Kenya has however also had its fair share of infighting that were mostly politically and ethnica...