Colours of Life 1 – Gorden Twesigye

‘Colours of Life’ – a series that we hope will give you a flavour of the lives of some of the students at Nyakatukura – written by the students for you!

I am Gorden aged 18, a Ugandan by nationality and a S.4 student (in 4th and final year of O'Levels) at Nyakatukura Memorial Secondary School, Ibanda.

First of all I thank God for where I am because without him I would be nowhere and nobody.

I was born and raised from a very poor family where my grandmum is struggling to the heights for me, but finding strength through God.  She struggled for my fees to complete primary level and I did not shame her because regardless of the backwardness of the primary school, through the Almighty, I managed to get a first grade, which became my turning point in life.

From there God worked and got me an opportunity to join the secondary system where I am being paid for by the school.

In the holidays I remain at the school, slashing (cutting grass with a long machete that is bent at an angle at the end þ ) and cleaning the compound, not to forget cooking for myself and studying.

As they say that ‘hard work, discipline and fear of God’ leads to success.  I have always emerged the best in class and I am hopeful that even at the end of O’Levels I shall make it.  After A’Levels I would wish to join a University and take the course of being a medical doctor – and evangelise people with the word of God more than I am doing now as Psalm 105:1 says.  Finally standing of the promise in Numbers 23:19 I will succeed.

Psalm 105:1 says, ‘Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done.’

Numbers 23:19 says, ‘God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.  Does he speak and then not act?  Does he promise and not fulfil?’