Team Ndejje University Students' Club

Blessings 2022

I wish you a year full of God’s blessings Happy New Year 2022!

I wish you every success this year. I hope that you will find joy and success in all walks of life. Happy New Year 2022!

I said that 365 days ago, but a happy new year.

May the New Year bless you with health, prosperity, and happiness.

Team No Retake

I take this opportunity to congratulate all Ndejje university students upon the completion of their Exams. The semester has been an overdue due to the Covid19 pandemic that rose in the beginning of this year.

*HOW TO AVOID LIGHTNING STRIKE*

How far away is the storm?

Most people are struck by lightning when they think they're safe, believing the storm has passed or it hasn't hit their area yet. The best thing to do is to work out how far away the storm is.

This can be done by counting the seconds between a flash of lightning and the clap of thunder. Roughly speaking every three seconds gives you about a kilometre. So if you counted nine seconds then the storm is about 3km away.

If you're no good with kilometres then count five seconds for every mile.

You should seek shelter quickly if the length of time between the lightning flash and the clap of thunder is 30 seconds or less.

- Before the storm
Unplug all non-essential appliances, including the television, as lightning can cause power surges.

-Seek shelter if possible. When you hear thunder you're already within range of where the next ground flash may occur - lightning can strike as far as 10 miles away from the centre of a storm.

-During the storm
When indoors, avoid using your landline as telephone lines can conduct electricity.

-It's also best to avoid using taps and sinks with metal pipes as they can conduct electricity too.

-If outdoors with no shelter, try to keep all metal and electrical objects about 20 metres away from you.

-Avoid water and find a low-lying open place that is a safe distance from trees, poles or metal objects. Water will transmit strikes from further away and lightning likes to strike high objects.

-Get inside a car of you can. Lightning will spread over the metal of the vehicle before earthing to the ground through the tyres.

-If you find yourself in an exposed location squat close to the ground, with hands on knees and with head tucked between them. Try to touch as little of the ground with your body as possible, do not lie down on the ground.

-Generally be aware of metal objects that can conduct or attract lightning, including golf clubs, umbrellas, motorbikes and bicycle

A prime minister in one country visited a kindergarten and asked them: How much is the budget for a child's food per month?
They told him: $ 400.
He told them: This is a lot .. They reduced it to 300 dollars!
Then he visited the prison and asked them: How much is the prisoner's food budget per month?
They said: $ 400.
He told them: This is a little .. Increase it to 800 dollars!
An accompanying minister asked him: Why did you reduce the food of kindergarten children and increase the prisoners' food?
# He said: * Do you think that after leaving the ministry we will go to kindergarten? * 😆
Enjoy your weekend

*LAUGH AND LEARN A LESSON*

Bill Gates organized an enormous session to recruit a new chairman for Microsoft Europe.
5000 candidates assembled in a large room.
One candidate was Ssebulime, a Ugandan living in the USA.

Bill Gates thanked all the candidates for coming, and then asked all those who do not know JAVA programming to leave.
2000 people left.
Ssebulime thought to himself, “I do not know JAVA, but I have nothing to lose if I stay. I'll give it a try."

Bill Gates asked that all candidates who have never had the experience of managing more than 100 people to leave.
2000 people left.
Ssebulime said to himself, “I've never managed anybody by myself, but I have nothing to lose if I stay. What can happen to me?” He stayed behind again.

Then Bill Gates asked all candidates who didn’t have a minimum of a Diploma in Business Management to leave.
500 people left the room.
Ssebulime thought to himself, “I left school at 15, grade 7, but what have I got to lose?” So, he stayed in the room.

Lastly, Bill Gates asked the candidates who do not speak fluent Serbian to leave.
498 people left the room.
Ssebulime thought to himself, “I do not speak one word of Serbian, but what do I have to lose?” So he stayed behind and found himself with only one other candidate.

Bill Gates joined them and said, “Apparently you are the only two candidates who have all the qualifications and experience I am looking for and also speak Serbian. I'd now like to hear the two of you have a conversation together in that language."

Calmly Ssebulime turned to the other candidate, and in a hesitant voice said;

"Ogambotya musaja munange?"

The other candidate answered softly but clearly;

"Tewali tabu okujako okunonya akawunga abaana balye!!!...”

Bill ordered them to report to work with immediate effect.

The Lord calls the unqualified and qualify them, Do not quit.

Whatever it takes to acheive your dream, DO NOT Quit.

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The week kicked off with the final day of e-learning and pedagogy training for lecturers at Ndejje University Kampala campus. All Faculties staff have undergone training to enable a smooth transition to ODeL (Open Distance and e-learning).
The content will be uploaded very soon. Students are encouraged to register online and consent to the new normal.
WE SHALL NEVER LOOK BACK!

A girl bought an iPad. When her father saw it, He asked her "What was the 1st thing you did when you bought it?
"I put an anti-scratch sticker on the screen and bought a cover for the iPad" she replied.
"Did someone force you to do so?"
- "No"
"Don't you think it's an insult to the manufacturer?"
- "No dad! In fact they even recommend using a cover for the iPad"
"Did you cover it because it was cheap & ugly?"
- "Actually, I covered it because I didn't want it to get damage and decrease in value."
"When you put the cover on, didn't it reduce the iPad's beauty?"
- "I think it looks better and it is worth it for the protection it gives my iPad."
The father looked lovingly at his daughter and said,
"Yet if I had asked you to cover your body which is much more precious than the iPad, would you have readily agreed???"
She was mute.....
~ Indecent dressing and exposure of your body reduces your value and respect.

A dying old man said to his doctor while on the sick bed " Doctor, don’t worry. I know I am going to die. I didn’t want to come here but they brought me here.

Please don’t worry about me, look at my hair, they are gone. I am so old but you are so young. I have learnt a lot from life, if you don’t mind I will tell you some of them before I die.

When I was 4 years, I use to think the world is about me. When I turned 14, I wanted to rule the world. I thought I would be the greatest man that ever lived. When I was 21, I wanted to be the richest man, when I was 25, I wanted to find love, when I was 40, I wanted to be helpful to everyone. Now that I am here, I want to die. You see, I wanted so many things at so many times. Most importantly, I wanted to be happy. I thought the best way to be happy is to listen to others.

When I wanted to enter the University, I wanted to study Zoology but everyone said I should study Engineering that I will be a great Engineer. So I listened to them. I had no one to pay my fees, I had to work and also pay my fees. In my third year, I couldn’t cope with my studies, I had to drop. When I dropped, the same people told me "you should have studied Zoology"!

When I turned 28, everyone said I should marry. That I needed a wife. So I listened to them, I got married. 6 years into the marriage, I caught my wife sleeping with my neighbour. I asked her why and she slapped me. I was angry and didn’t say anything. The next day I returned from work, she had run away with my children, now I am dying a lonely man.

At 40, I got a huge contract. My name was in the news. The next day, all my friends and families were at my house, everyone had a serious problem. Within one week, I spent all the money on them with the promise that they will pay back. I could not complete the contract because they refused to return the money as promised. So I was sent to jail for 6 years. I stayed in jail and I came out. When I came out, they were nowhere.

There was one mistake I made through all this time. Now it is clear to me. Let me tell you about it. I refused to listen to myself. I ignored my own self and listen to others. Now that I am here the only person that is with me is myself.

You see, it is very good to listen to others. It is very wise to seek advice from others. But it is very dangerous to ignore your own self. It is very very dangerous to refuse to pay attention to your heart.

When you get home this night, sit down, take a glass of water. Close your eyes if you want or open it if you want, then talk to yourself, reason with yourself. You can walk down the road alone and as you walk, begin to talk to yourself.

The only person that can overrule yourself is God, after God, listen to yourself next. I know it may not make sense to you now but always remember I told you LEARN TO LISTEN TO YOURSELF.

PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT BE TO PEOPLE UNDER LOCKDOWN.

with COVID-19 outbreak, the world is conducting the largest psychological experiment ever with arguably 2.6 billion people worldwide suffering affected with total lockdown.

This may result in a secondary epidemic of burnouts and stress-related absenteeism in the latter half of 2020. Taking action now can mitigate the toxic effects of COVID-19 lockdowns.

The mental toll of quarantine and lockdown

Currently, an estimated 2.6 billion people – one-third of the world’s population – is living under some kind of lockdown or quarantine. This is arguably the largest psychological experiment ever conducted.

Unfortunately, we already have a good idea of its results. In late February 2020, right before European countries mandated various forms of lockdowns, The Lancet published a review of 24 studies documenting the psychological impact of quarantine (the “restriction of movement of people who have potentially been exposed to a contagious disease”).

Today I want to tell you a story.

A long time ago in a kingdom far, far away there were lots of happy
farmers. They plowed the fields and tended their cattle.

Their children didn't go to school. Instead they learnt by playing
with each other, helping their families and being told stories of
fantastic tales by their grandparents, aunts and uncles.

When they became older they worked on the farms or helped craftsmen
make beautiful things. One day they would become farmers or master
craftsmen too.

But things weren't always happy. At times they had no food and
sometimes great rains swept all the crops away. So sometimes they
wished of going to the distant cities and earning a regular wage.

So off they went to work in the new hustling, bustling factories.

As poor farm hands they needed to learn to read and to learn
numbers before using the big new machines. But nothing more, they
didn't need to learn medicine, big science or even to learn about
how money works as they were just factory workers. The factory
owners kept that for their own children who went away to
"universities."
But the farmers soon became too many and the factory training
couldn't keep up. So the government decided to make "schools."
There the children could learn what they needed to work in
factories. Numbers, spelling. That sort of thing. And to keep them
in line when they started work, the first thing they were taught at
school was how to sit in straight lines, how to be quiet, how to
do what the teacher told them. And of course never to talk back or
ask questions. That would never do!

Their parents wondered "well it's different from how we learnt,"
but I guess that's what they need these days, they said.

So on this went, day after day, year after year.

Until the factories started closing, moving off to some far away
oriental land. And the skills the factory workers had didn't
prepare them for this new life.

But still the teachers kept on. Kept on standing at the board. Kept
on keeping the children still and sat in neat little rows. For they
had forgotten how the children used to learn. They had forgotten
about playing and watching and all those "why" questions that
children used to ask.
Luckily a brave princess began to notice that the children in her
class weren't concentrating. They didn't really like the textbook
or tests and worst of all she realized that what the children were
supposed to be learning really wasn't that useful anymore.

She thought this over and over in her mind, wanting to change. But
the school, the parents, the "system" kept putting her down. She
knew something had to be done. But how?

Then one fine day she read an email. It got her thinking
about why schools were started in the first place, about the farms
and the factories. What she thought school "had to be" really
wasn't "had to be" at all. It got her thinking about what she could
do for her students. She had the strangest idea that she, one brave
soul on her own, really could make difference.

That day was a magic day for she forgot just thinking. She decided
to do.

She shared the blog on Facebook and twitter. And she decided to
make her schools how they should be, where children learn with
smiles on their faces and joy in their hearts.

That brave princess saved us all. And it all started that day.
And because of her courage and deeds we all live happily ever
after, safe from the evil witches, the grievous ghouls and the
specter of factory-based schools.