He hadn't been in Zwedru long when, one Saturday afternoon, his schooling of hard knocks began. A ten-year-old girl fell from a palm tree, seriously fracturing her left arm. With nothing to ease her pain, she walked three days for treatment.
就在他抵達 Zwedru 沒多久，一個星期六下午，他的「震撼教育」首次展開：有位從棕櫚樹摔下、導致左手臂嚴重骨折的 10 歲女孩，在沒有任何止痛的情況下，徒步三天三夜來就醫。