Bryan was a former hippie who said he had been “radicalized by the Vietnam War.” He asked me, “What caused you to become socially aware and progressive?” and I didn’t have the heart to tell him I’d come to Namibia because I got lost on my way to Ireland, so I just said, “Oh, uh, I guess the Gulf War?” I mean, I was against it, but I wouldn’t say it had made me socially aware or progressive. In fact, I wouldn’t say I knew that much about it at all. What I didn’t know then was that the thing that would make me socially aware and progressive was studying in Namibia.
