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how's it going
huh
how's it going
oh man it's going good man. very very very good.
what's your name
Ebrima Nyassi
Where are you from
I'm from Gambia
it's located in West Africa
when did you come to Taiwan
I came last year
2013... 2012
September 14
so you've been here for
a year
one year
a year and a month
I'm at National Taipei University of Technology
so I applied for a scholarship cause
my country and
Taiwan has a very good relationship so almost
every young person in my country is advised is convinced
to choose Taiwan for annual scholarship application
my family actually I was raised by my mom
my dad has been abroad for a while
I was raised by my mom and
through my time with her
I just learned from her
my art started like I said through my moms help because I loved drawing
and when I drew anything but I always like drawing physical muscular guys
so when I draw it I'll just show it to my mom and she'll be like okay
it's good but it's not good here
she's not good at art but she says I know when it is nice
when I see something good I know it so do it this way
and come back what i'm trying to explain if you're a good artist so she tries to force me to be a good artist
by telling me if you are a good artist you will see what I'm telling you
just go do it that way
haircuts is another art
different from drawing on paper
haircuts I've never done any special training on it
nobody would never start in this world and say
he has trained me to be a barber
I learned through observation
I gotta say this is probably one of the strangest places I've gotten a haircut
I've never really
gotten a haircut outside of a buillding
it's pretty liberating
I'm also defined partially by
my society because in my
society everything that is taught in the house
goes back to the society because
my country you don't have that freedom as a young
as a child to do whatever you want when there is somebody observing you to see
that this is right
and this is wrong
society contributes a lot in developing a child
cause we have a proverb that says
it takes a parent
to grow the child
but it takes a society
to get to discipline the child
so it always goes back to the society
so my society really
defines me as a person
isn't my grandma gonna like this?
and also the culture
the people
the socialism
amongst the people is one thing every Gambian is proud of because you can see
every Gambian is interrelated because the south of the country is very
important like when you see
the Gambia almost everybody knows
each other almost everybody if I didn't know you as a young person
our grandparents might know each other
those are the kind of things that link us
we easily don't
cause violence or anything in the country
it's actually the thing everyone is proud of in my country
family
oh food
Taiwanese people are very proud of their food
when I came here my Taiwanese teacher actually asked me
have you tried our food
does it taste good
is it nice do you feel it good
as a first experience obviously a new experience for the first it's good
and also let's say social life
Gambians have that interaction amongst ourselves
you know
it's like more
common to see boys grouping
in one place talking about anything any general topic any burning issue
so you always had that interaction when you grew up so
through that exchange of ideas we grew up to be wise
we grew up to be current
so yeah it's like that so you have lot of things
like that that wisens up almost
all young people in my country
voila
sweet
thank you
how does it look guys
good