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Hill discusses unionism with Gloria Johnson, national intern for
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By Tafadzwa Chibanguza
I arrived in Portland on the 5th of
September in the year o f our Lord
1977. It was a hot day, in actual
fact, it had been a hot summer.
When I left Africa in August it was
freezing.
I was met by the Reverend o f the
Church that had generously spon
sored me the last three years o f my
college education. W ith him were
four other young people from the
church. They were such a cute
group.
The minister and I left fo r his
house in his VW station wagon. We
did not talk for a while. I was just
adm iring P ortland’ s countryside.
Then he said, “ Have you ever tried
marijuana?” I just looked up at him
and didn’t say anything.
Then he said, “ anyway, when you
get to college you will find out what
its all about. I don’t think its a bad
drug at all. People are just making a
fuss about i t . ” I listened as he
talked and when he had finished I
said, “ that’s interesting.” It was the
first time I ever heard a priest ex
press his love for a drug.
We arrived at his blue painted
ranch-style home in Troutdale. His
wife came running to meet us as
soon as she heard the car pull into
the driveway. “ Hi Tafadzwa, i t ’ s
nice to meet you,” she said. “ Thank
you, it ’ s nice to meet you too,” I
responded.
She grabbed me by the hand and
dragged me in to the kitchen. “ I
want to show you something.” She
opened the refrigerator door and
said, “ this is an autom atic ice-
maker, have you ever seen one
before?”
School began exactely on the 14th
o f September. I was going to be a
freshman in College. Big Deal. The
name o f my school is Lewis and
Clark College.
I was showed to my room which
was nice but I had to share it with
three other people. I was the first
one to get into the room, so I made
myself comfortable after I had un
packed my earthly belongings.
A fte r a few hours somebody
really big entered the room. This
person was to be one o f my room
mates. We greeted each other like
normal people do. Then he asked
me if I wanted to go to a party and
meet people, especially the
" c h ic k s .” I remember the ex
pression on his face when he said,
“ chicks.” I agreed to go.
The party was being held in one
o f the dorms and it was packed. It
amazed me how so many people can
get th irs ty at the same tim e. A
beautiful blonde walked up to me
and introduced herself (I d on’ t
blame her). I introduced myself too.
Then she gasped in amazement,
“ My God! I have never met
anybody from A frica before. Far
out. Tell me do you meet lions very
often?” “ A ll the time,” ! said. “ I
even got one for a pet.”
“ Where did you get these
clothes?” , she persisted in wanting
to im prove her knowledge. This
time I wasn’t so crazy about her. So
I said, " I was given these clothes at
JFK airport in New York. I flew all
the way from Africa naked!”
The Foreign Student O ffice at
Lewis and C lark likes to have
foreign students go out and speak to
churches, schools and clubs. They
wanted me to speak about my coun
try. At one high school some kid
asked me, “ Do you really jum p
from tree to tree as a means of tran
sport?” Another difficult question I
was asked at the same school was,
“ What is Tarzan like?”
I thought i f I got out o f town
maybe I w ould escape these
questions so I visited my sister in
Atlanta, Georgia. One day I was sit
ting with a friend in a bar when
somebody came up to us and said,
“ you guys from Africa?” He heard
us speaking in our language called
Shona. He grabbed himself a chair
and sat down.
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Then he said, “ you guys eat
breakfast down there?” And he was
serious when he asked that question
but we started to laugh and so did
he. “ That was kind o f silly, huh?”
He noticed.
He still wanted to know more
about us and so popped this
question to me, “ What does your
father do?” I said, "m y father is the
head o f a school.” Then he directed
the same question to my friend who
told him that his father had died a
tew years ago. “ 1 am terribly sorry
man,” he sympathized. “ Did he die
o f natural causes or was he eaten by
a lion?”
These were incredible questions 1
faced in this country. It shows how
much uninformed some people are
about A fric a . Anyw ay, i f you
would excuse me, I have to go buy
my mother an automatic ice-maker.
Representative, District 16
Linda Thompson, George Rankins, Carol Halvorson, Luis Alverez, Joanne
Barrett, Edna Robertson, Gail Meyers, Betty Walker, Lillian Herzog, Bob
Lee, Rance Spruill, Armando Laguardia, Rev. John Jackson, Gloria Fisher.
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Castrejon, Maris Montoya, Helen Romero, Juan Romero, Ostolia Ruiz, Libby
Hill, Helen Hendrix, Nyewusi Askari, Mike Verbout, Paul Knauls.
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