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hey, christopher.

hey.

where's kwesi?

dunno. actually, i think he went to answer a call on his cell.

oh, ok. i just finished writing up evaluations for you - just have to ask you to fill out this little form about your internship experience here. if you could pass this on to him, too?

ok, no problem.

christopher, also, i've been wanting to ask you something, if you don't mind?

sure.

well, you're from guyana.

right.

but you seem so...

american?

uh, yeah.

actually, been asked this before.

sorry.

no problem. see, actually, my parents were sort of hippies in san francisco. and they kind of got involved in this thing and went down there in the late seventies.

mm hm.

it was cool at first, but my mom got pregnant with me right before everything started getting really weird.

weird?

uh, yeah. once they realized they were going to have a kid, they weren't so into the whole thing anymore. then when things got really weird there, they took off. and because of all that, they felt like they couldn't really come back to the states, so them and some of the other parents who ditched out of the group all lived together and raised us.

huh.

they're still there, and they're fine with it, but the country actually isn't doing that great, so they wanted me to come to college here. i was a few years behind with the school stuff, so that's why i'm a few years older than other college kids, but it's cool.

huh. that's interesting. hmm. well, give kwesi that form when he gets back, ok?