Those priceless moments

FORTH YEAR is usually the last year for most courses and this is the time when the 4th year finalists have just done their final project presentation. Basically it’s the wrap up of university life. At the end of university, people do all kinds of things and give all kinds of souvenirs to their former classmates. Others cry and others go drinking and dancing all night – but that is only for the really cool ones – who are quite few. Most of the others sit around in small cliques and share their moments, cry about them and hug, then exchange small gifts. The ones that didn’t get over their senior six memories also move around with a book where their friends sign. I am still wondering why all this happens though. I mean, this is Kigali; it’s so small that there is a very good chance all these people will bump into each other the very next day! The funny part of all this came when they hired a cameraman to come and take pictures of the forth year students as they said bye. As if the multi-coloured outfits they donned were not enough, you should have seen their poses as they took pictures. It was very discomforting, to say the least. One guy decided to squat near a small tree with red flowers and asked the cameraman to take the picture. It almost felt like those pictures our parents took in the 70’s. Even my grandfather had better poses. Another one did one of those karate moves with one leg in the air and to make matters worse, he was standing next to hot chicks. He wore a very tight red trouser with a green coat and brown shoes. Need I say more? The ‘show’ ended when one guy stretched his legs a little too far and forgot just how tight the pants he wore were. Needless to say, his trouser could only take so much, and it snapped! He looked like he had been attacked by a wild cat. My understanding is that the cameraman increased the price of his photos as his camera was filmed with images that could easily be sold to a comic studio! But these kids were determined to keep their memories, because some of them are just priceless.