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Cheer leading. To those who have watched American high school movies, you are probably thinking of skinny, beautiful, blondes with short tight skirts and reveling tops, lots of makeup, the bad girls in school who do nothing but look down on people, talk about shopping and how they are planning to do a fairy tale wedding and if it is a guy then he is automatically gay. Well I don’t dispute that because it’s actually true… in movies.

Well, let me help someone who is still, like it’s said, floating. When I talk about cheer leading, I am not referring to the Gor mahia or AFC leopards kind of cheering… no offense, I am referring to a more organized form of cheering that involves choreographed moves and stunts accompanied by singing and shouting. Or using the Wikipedia definition, it is an intense physical activity based upon organized routines, usually ranging anywhere from one to three minutes, which contains many components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers and stunting in order to direct spectators of events to cheer for sports teams at games or to participate in cheer leading competitions.

In real life, cheer leading goes beyond short skirts song and gymnastic… Like any sports, it requires lots of exercise, determination, hard work, sacrifice and best of all team spirit. To be a cheerleader the phrase ‘give up’ never exists in your vocabulary. You smile and continue singing even when your team is losing, you fall but you always have to rise up, you jump high in the sky even when you are not sure someone will be waiting to catch you-that’s trust. You laugh with your team when they laugh and you cry when they cry- that’s love, when one of you is out you do everything to bring them back-that’s unity. Your team’s success is what you long for everyday-that’s determination. Now tell me what manager will refuse to hire someone with such qualities?

It may actually shock you to know that some of the great leaders and celebrities started off  as cheerleaders. The likes of president George W  Bush was a Cheerleader at Phillips Academy, Franklin D Roosevelt among his many other activities, the thirty-second President of USA, was a football Cheerleader at Harvard. Ronald Reagan, Hale Berry the model cum actress was a cheerleader, Madonna the talented singer and song writer… to mention but a few. So before you despise this seemingly unnecessary sport, be careful because you might just be despising the next president!

I am yet to see a successful cheer team in Kenya, a team that will accompany our teams to games, a team that will encourage young girls and boys to use their talents, a team that will keep believing in their country, a team that will show the true spirit of Kenya, and a team that will definitely make us proud. If other girls are doing it out there, then we too can do it even better. Kenya is multitalented country, creative, with lots of diversity, team spirit, united, peaceful and untapped resources, all we got to do is use these to our advantage.  #weareone 

                                                                          #CHANGEISINDISPENSABLE.

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