Lomile Ramakatsa: The Teacher |
Rudyard Kipling once said that “if you
can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs and if you can meet
with triumph and disaster and treat the two the same, yours is earth and
everything that is in it”. There is no
doubt that Kipling had in mind the success story of the brilliant young girls who have stood the
taste of time to accomplish their dreams. Rudyard Kipling surely had this inspiration
from the obstacles and barriers young girls repeatedly defeat to get to
prominence especially in a masculine dominated world.
This inspiration ties with "Mon meilleur
ami" (My best Friend) an Italian movie which explores the challenges of friendship
and the challenges we seek to attain to reach life-goals. I like this movie because the main
character in it Francois had only 10 days to learn about the "three
S's" in life – that is being sociable, committed and genuine.
In fact life is like a blanket because once
you pull it up, your toes rebel, you haul it down and shivers meander about your
shoulder; but cheerful people manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable
night in it says Marion Howard. If you are looking for someone has been able to
draw her knees up and had passed comfortable nights in her blanket, I know one.
Her name is Lomile
Ramakatsa. Her intelligence is a historical object. I feel she is going to be the most trusted teacher of the
2,160 graduands of last September 26, 2015 (40th graduation
ceremony) from the National University of Lesotho-NUL. After
spending four years without
pulling or hauling the blanket of books, Lomile entered into records last
weekend as she bags a Bachelor of Education (in English
Language and English Literature). Nothing defines a gentle lady than her dedication
to accomplish something. She has always admired Ph.D holders and she is now
inspired to be one. That she
graduated from NUL last Saturday September 26th in flying colours
was thus not surprising to those who know of what stuff she is made.
Nothing more than Mama's love |
What is important about this young and
talented female young graduate is that her brain is a relic which makes her a
webster. She falls within the ranks of the new breed of young women born with
extra abilities to surmount all sorts of barrier to emerge successful. If we go
by Albert Einstein who declared that genius is 1/10 inspiration and 9/10
perspiration, Lomile Ramakatsa is a genius. This
means that for somebody to be termed a genius that person must be a workaholic.
In this light, Lomile merits to be mentioned
first among women celebrities if not the story of women who young girl look up
to as role models will remain unfinished. What inescapably catches your
attention when you first meet Lomile is her striking elegance. Being a gentle
woman of the modern generation, she knows only too well what good, attractive
outfit does to polish a teacher’s image. And so she
never hesitates to put on
the best outfits, the most fashionable, the flashiest and the snazziest of
shoes. Take it for overconfidence and you are wrong because you won’t fail to
turn behind to look at her again in admiration that she is really prepared for
her job as a teacher. But there is more to this substantial personality that Lomile
is than just stylishness. This is principally so when we take into
consideration her brilliant educational background and the efforts she deployed
to stand out of the madding crowd of women…Bravo and Congratulations "Ma
meilleure amie" (My best Friend).
It takes years of hard-work to smile |
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
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