Word: quistes
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...friend said, 'Anton, you don't want to dothat now.' But of course once I had it in mind Ihad to look at the plaque," Quist continues. "Thenall of a sudden I heard the sound of guns beingcocked. If I had moved they would have killed me,they are all so trigger-happy. They kept me injail all night long, sending me from room to room,asking me questions. The next morning the captaincame in and took one look at me and said, 'Gohome, kid. And stay out of trouble...
...Quist did well enough in his boarding schoolclasses to enter the more prestigious tracks ofmath and physics, but academics were not hisprimary concern. "I was convinced that I wouldjust hang out and drive my dad's car," he says.Then he joined a production of Gilbert andSullivan's The Mikado, an this involvementgave him a new attitude. "I was amazed at how allthese people working together could create a showthat an audience would enjoy, how all this effortcould...
...showed up and the headmaster gave me thetext and told me that I would start the next day,"Quist says. There was no lesson plan, no formaltraining. He had eight classes a day, 50 studentsper class. "They called me Mr. Quist. it waspretty cool...
There were difficulties at first. "I gave thefirst exam to all classes at once. Four hundredexams! I never finished correcting them all. Afterthat I staggered the tests." The laboratory was sohot that Quist says he turned the lights off tokeep the heat bearable. He arranged field trips tolocal factories and taught the text in his ownorder. "I love teaching," he says. "I'd like to doit again someday...
...Quist decided to change his major. Anacceptance letter from Harvard convinced him toleave Ghana as well. He says that to save oninternational postage, the admissions office senthim just one sheet of paper with some pictures ofHarvard and a list of activities, not the usualbulky envelop stuffed with fliers from everyextracurricular group. he got his first view ofHarvard as a member of dorm crew...