
So I went to the School to talk to the graduating class about my experience moving from rural Africa to Minneapolis when I was fifteen. We talked about lemmings, and why it is good to think about consequences. I specified that I was not going to tell them what to do, but that I wanted then to think about what is best for them in the long run and not loose sight of what they want for their future. We talked about the advantages and disadvantages of smoking, saving money, taking drugs, and eating assai (getting a purple mustache vs. lots of vitamins).
I also recently finished my world map. It took about a hundred hours to complete. In addition to the countries and capitals, the map depicts every major river, the tallest few mountains for each continent, every city of two and a half million, other important cities, the Suez and Panama Canals, and some geographic and political regions. I painted the compass point and border with typical Ndjuka designs.
Ba Jotie had another last project for me. He has a DVD documentary on space, but it is in English, so he cannot understand it. We did not finish the set of DVD’s, but we did get a few hours translated. The ability to translate astrophysics is a great test of fluency. Big English words simply do not translate, so we had to take a lot of time to explain the big words. After our last session translating the space DVD’s, my official projects officially ended.
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