while I was getting my hair cut, I suddenly felt this warm feeling in my leg. All this blood is
running down into my boots. [I thought] I’ve got to get out of here. I’ve got to get out of
here. I’ll die if I stay here. So I left the barbershop and went about two blocks to where the
public library was and I went in and I said, “Do you have any college catalogs from the
States”? And they said, “Yeah, there’s some over there”. And they pointed and there’s a
shelf. So I went over and I started going through college catalogs, trying to think about what
to do. I thought maybe architecture; maybe I’ll try something that’s more artistic or
something. Because by then I’d kind of began to put two and two together [to find
something] less like engineering and more to do with art. But I but I didn’t have any money,
[just] what whatever I’ve saved working on construction. So hmm. What’s the nearest
cheapest place with architecture? And I found the University of Washington in Seattle