Early Schooling

For the first three years of my schooling, and for much of my fourth, I did not go to school -- I was home schooled. For the most part, I was on distant islands, surrounded only by Micronesian children -- the one exception being my sister. Finally, I spent a few months in a mixed English-Micronesian school on Tarawa, then a brief period at school in the UK. Then, my new life of schooling began in South Africa, in Grade 4. Immediately I was plunged into a group of White boys. They looked at me, and I was like them. I looked at them, and they were not like me. OBSERVATION: The teacher asked us what instrument we use to navigate. I said, the coconut cup. This led to a great commotion in the class. (The compass, incidentally, is less accurate).