The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I`m not denying they exist. But it`s a far more philistine country than people think.
People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It`s not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.
One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
My looks aren`t something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much.
The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn`t know well.
