Like many Amis of his generation, when Kuras-who is 44 and from Chenggong Harbor in Taitung County-left home to seek work, the first job he found was at sea. He got hired as a cook aboard a boat before he had even finished his first year of junior high school.
跟多數早期離鄉背井的阿美人一樣，現年 44 歲、來自台東縣成功漁港的古拉斯，離鄉的第一份工作就是「跑船」。