I am a Proud Scot
I am a proud Scot
By Thomas MacDonald Kamanga
Aye, I am a proud Scot.
As a codger, drinking Scottish dram at the Whisky Centre in Embro and watching Queen Elizabeth’s royal convoy moving towards Embro Castle on the Royal mile, I suddenly realise that Queen Mary of Scots was ancestor to this current monarch, though she did not sit on the English throne.
As my grand Children mellifluously sing the most famous Scottish song: “Auld Lang Syne”(Old long ago), I also realise that this song is still sung across the world at Hogmanay.
Aye, I am a proud Scot.
I am proud of my country for the enviable achievements that attract thousands of tourists.
The Falkirk wheel, a symbol of engineering excellence, for instance will soon become the wonder of
The world! Which Scot will not be proud of that?
I am a proud Scot indeed.
As Home Economics teacher at FHS or Wallace High, I proudly teach how to prepare Scottish classic porridge and Haggis for the young generation has forgotten what our ancestors used to take pride in.
As veteran professor of history at Glesca or Stirling University I confidently teach that Nova Scotia was colonised by the Scots in 1625 but they were removed by the French in 1632.
Beneath the City Chambers in Embro lies Mary King’s Close, I teach my Scottish students
I am a proud Scot
Aye, which Scot is not proud of this great country?
For the first time we played football against England in 1872 on the West of Scotland Cricket Ground
Is this not a stunning entry to the Guinness Book of records?
What about unbelievable score margin ever recorded in football circles-Arbroath beat Bon Accord 36-0. Is this not another incredible entry to the Guinness Book of records?
What if a President or King tried to ban football today would he be popular?
Yet this is what James II tried to do in Scotland in 1457!
But what is interesting is that since the beginning of World Cup’ my Scotland has never played England in the finals!
Proud I am as Scot
When my teacher at Falkirk High tells me that Washington and Moscow are capital cities of USA and Russia respectively, I am perplexed because we have Washington near Coupar Angus and Moscow north-east of Kilmarnock!
As a geography student I am asked to name the border between England and my Scotland. Confidently I say: ‘Castle Rock in Edinburgh’. Cleaning his spectacles, the teacher says no!
‘River Tweed. Following Malcom I’s Victory 1018 the border was moved south’, another student corrects me.
I am proud of my Scotland
As Reverend in Ayre Presbytery I feel honoured as a Scot when I learn that David Livingstone left the comfort of his home at Blantyre and went to Africa to spread the word of Dod and stop slave trade.
No wonder then that the remains of this great Scot are at Westminster Abbey!
I am proud as reverend because this great man helped to bring sanity to Africa, a continent that was marred by tribal wars and illicit trade
Who can dispute the fact Robert Laws, a Scottish missionary, built a famous Stone house at Livingstonia in Malawi and continued the work started by David Livingstone in 1920s?
I am indeed proud of my Scotland
I feel excited when I read that there’ are about 25,000,000 people of Scottish lineage abroad yet there are 5,000,000 Scots in Scotland itself!’
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the current Secretary of State of USA, for instance will tell you that her mother had Scottish blood flowing in her veins
Proud I am as Scot
When I make a call using the ground phone I suddenly think of my fellow Scot Alexander Graham Bell, the brilliant man who invented the telephone, for little did he ken that his simple gadgets that he brought before the King in the 1880s would revolutionise communication in this world!
What about the Steam Engine? Is this world not grateful of James Watt who invented the Engine in Industrial Revolution era?
Is there any Scot who is not proud of these Lords of invention?
I am really proud of my Scotland
As a Ceres young man from Fife, I am particularly proud of the Highland games that we hold since 1314. As we dance wearing our beautiful kilts, pipers performing what they ken best, we commemorate the return of Ceres great men from the Battle of Bannockburn!
Who is not proud of Scotland?
Has Scotland not produced heroes?
If you are asked to name the first man to walk on the moon? Is not Neil Armstrong from the Armstrong clan?
William Wallace-did he not fight gallantly for our country? Think of the great battle at Stirling Bridge.
Are you not proud of this great Scot who loved his country? No wonder a magnificent monument was erected at Stirling in honour of this brave son of Scotland.
What about Robert the Bruce? Ask history professors at Glasgow what his army did at Kelso –disguised as a herd of cows his army climbed the English Fort. You can guess what the army did next!
Is this not military tactics at best?
Why then should I be not proud of these army lords?
I am proud of my country
As a MacDonald in the highlands and Western Isles, I am particularly proud
Of ama Flora MacDonald for her role she played in saving Bonnie Prince Charlie during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion.
The Redcoats wanted the Prince dead but Flora, disguised as Betty Burke, and the Prince clad in clothes from Lady Clanranald’s wardrobe ran away from impending death in small boat!
Who in the face of death would have such incredible courage?
Did she not set good example for our officers and men/women in the Royal Army?
I am a proud Fettes School student in Edinburgh
For my school has not only produced doctors but great British Prime Minister and author in the name of Tony Blair and Ian Flemings respectively
But as teacher at this school teacher I proudly teach that the first king of united Scotland was Kenneth MacAlpin and the longest lock or lake in Scotland is Lock Awe.
Ofcourse lock Ness has larger volume of water than Lock Awe.
When I am free from school work I travel to the Lock Ness to see if the Nessie has appeared for I don’t believe what people have written that ‘the wartime bombing of Scotland succeeded in killing the Lockness Monster’
Indeed I am proud as a Scot
I am inspired by John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of USA’s wise words: “Ask not what the government should do for you but what you should for your country”
As a proud Scot I am now contemplating of what I should do for my Scotland
Should I not ask my Provost here at Falkirk?
Tommy wrote this poem to share with his friends in Scotland all the things he saw and learned on his vist with us last year.
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