90 Year Old Great Grandma is an Elementary School Student

Remember when you could not wait to graduate from High School?  Imagine going back when you are grown up, way grown up. Imagine starting at the beginning when you are in your 80's.  

That is what Priscilla Sitienei did in her native Kenya a few years ago.    Now she sits at the front of her class in her school uniform writing the English names of animals in her notebook.  After serving as the village midwife for 65 years, Ms. Priscilla decided she needed to learn to read and write,  so she enrolled in the local school with some of her great-great grandchildren.

Ms. Priscilla is now 90 years old and she is a very popular student. In fact, she has helped deliver some of her own classmates.  Ms. Priscilla is believed to be the oldest primary school pupil in the world.  She is now in her fifth year, and she takes part in all of the classes - Math, English, PE, dance, drama and singing.

The villagers and her classmates call her "Gogo", which means grandmother.

Gogo says she never got the chance to learn to read and write when she was young, but now it is time because she wants to read the Bible and write down what she knows about herbal medicines so she can pass on that knowledge.   Gogo also wants to inspire children to get an education.

Gogo is a boarder at Leaders Vision Preparatory School, rooming with one of her grand kids.  The BBC reports expectant mothers still come to see her - usually on Saturdays - and she has been known to assist in births in her dormitory.

Wow!  Now that is a dorm party I would not want to go to!