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  • alright record

  • it's recording? okay go.

  • alright

  • 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

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