I do remember thinking if I have any opportunity to get out of here — I used to sit outside after dinner at my parents’ house, and learn all the star constellations and look at the moon a lot and just dream about getting out and going places, and studying somewhere else. ((Alone With A Girl, Had To Work, Salute The Moon, Skip And Hop, Watermarked Pt. 1, Who You Are)) And it’s like one of those scenes from a — some fairy tale, like a grim fairy tale, or something — it’s like you wish on a star, and lo and behold, when I was 16, my friend Richard Leakey, Dr. Leakey, asked me if I was interested, and if I would consider trying out for this school in Wales, which is an international school. ((Et Cetera Et Cetera Pt. 1)) And it would mean going there to study and leaving Nairobi, leaving my family. But it’s a two year course, and it would set me up for an amazing future doing whatever I wanted to do. So, I said okay, I’ll try it out. It kind of scared me, but I was — I was so interested in getting out, going somewhere else.

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