Apparently, this is what some of our primary school girls believe. I had the great honour and opportunity to attend this year's Ikolomani South Zonal Educational day which took place at Eregi Girls' Boarding Primary School. The annual event normally details presentation of the previous year's K.C.P.E (Kenya Certificate of Primary Education) examination results and trophies to pupils and schools with exemplary performance. Just before giving my talk (I didn't consider it much of a speech), I decided to carry out a small survey where I gave out questionnaires to 3 anonymous girls. I asked the following questions in the questionnaires: 1. Why are you in school? 2. What would you like to become in future (career wise)? 3. What qualifications do you require for you to become (your answer to 2)? I would like you to take a moment and ask yourself what answers you would have given at the age of 12. Here are the answers I got: