In 2019, three pals – Anthony Odhiambo, Paul Otana and Adrian Wena – emerged as the highest college students in Kisumu County after sitting their Kenya Certificates of Major Training (KCPE) examination.
Anthony, Paul and Adrian scored 426, 416 and 407 marks, respectively. Though that they had hoped to affix the identical secondary faculty, this was to not be. Whereas Paul and Anthony continued at Alliance Excessive Faculty, Adrian secured a spot at Maseno Faculty.
This didn’t dampen the boys’ spirits and the three pals vowed to work collectively each time doable to enhance their educational efficiency.
Their efforts would repay 4 years later. The bond of friendship that binds the youngsters collectively has stood the check of time and the trio has as soon as once more excelled, reaching A grades within the 2023 Kenya Certificates of Secondary Training (KCSE) examination.
Adrian topped his pals with an A grade of 84, intently adopted by Anthony and Paul with A grades of 83 and 81, respectively.
Adrian additionally emerged the second greatest scholar at Maseno Faculty.
“I attribute the great outcomes to group work, frequent consultations, dedication and trusting in God,” Anthony mentioned in an interview with the Nation.
He mentioned that though they attended totally different secondary faculties, they spent most of their holidays exchanging notes and finding out with Adrian, who’s his neighbour in Nyalenda property, Kisumu County.
Whereas Paul was normally in Nairobi throughout holidays, he would generally journey to Kisumu, and the three pals would then examine collectively.
They made time at weekends and late at night time to review collectively, serving to one another.
“Adrian was good at arithmetic, whereas I used to be good at sciences,” mentioned Anthony, including that they devoted most of their group work to revising maths and science.
Again in school, Paul was a grasp of pc classes and would lend a serving to hand to Anthony, who in flip provided him steering in geography.
The three admit that whereas they all the time competed to outdo one another, theirs was a optimistic competitors.
From the times when the three had been pupils at Xaverian Major Faculty in Kisumu, that they had agreed to compete in opposition to one another whereas additionally providing assist to those that had been weak in different topics.
“I joined Xaverian Major Faculty along with (Paul) Otana in 2017. At the moment, Anthony had been on the faculty for six years,” mentioned Adrian.
The three of them all the time made certain they had been within the high ten of their respective faculties.
In addition they seemed out for one another in case of poor efficiency and challenges, which got here from peer stress.
“In Type Two, my instructor, Mr Fred Mosoti, reached out to me saying I had modified and wanted to get again on monitor. I additionally realised that Paul too was going through an identical drawback and I reached out to him,” mentioned Anthony.
“Friendship needs to be about constructing one another up, lighting one another’s candles, as a result of that’s the solely option to make our nation higher,” mentioned Paul.
Anthony and Adrian hope to review medication on the College of Nairobi. Paul, alternatively, desires to review pc science at Princeton College within the US.
“Even with the space, our friendship is simply too agency to be damaged. We are going to proceed to work collectively and guarantee every of us achieves their desires,” mentioned Adrian.
