Education has always been a priority for Vivian. The daughter of a University professor and school head mistress, she has been at the top of her class her entire academic life. Yet when she heard about the ISM scholarship, she was hesitant to apply.
“I was afraid of change,” she recalls of the decision to send in her application. Even though she was going to school in Moshi and she knew about ISM, “I was already used to the catholic school. ISM was a new world, a different culture.”
But once she took a deep breath and thought about all the possibilities that came with an ISM education, she was sold.
“I saw a whole new world in front of me,” she says of the day she secured the IB scholarship. “Lots of opportunity. I think I can achieve more here than anywhere else. I know I can use my talents to the full and make the best out of myself.”
To round out her bookish ways, Vivian has taken to the stage joining the Drama club, her favourite after school activity, which is a good place for a 17 year old girl with dreams of becoming a lawyer and a politician.
“If I focus on my studies I can get into the best university n the world. That is what is expected of me and what I will try to do.”
Vivian is also taking music lessons, piano and vocal, swimming lessons and works with kids at a nearby daycare.
She got her first taste of CAS hard labour planting banana trees at Light in Africa orphanage which is under construction in Boma Ng’ombe.
Source: The Summit, International School Moshi, Kilimanjaro and Arusha, 11th Edition, 2010