I have since returned often to Carroll's masterpieces; I even studied them in college.
To prepare for my role, I even studied up on open relationships and their combative cousins, swinging and polyamory.
"I used to wonder how I would even study if my school is under water, but now, I have learnt so many lessons that I am eager to teach my friends and community members about how we can all help ourselves address the problems of poverty, because it affects us all, regardless of age," she says with an air of authority.
The maulana made me an offer: I could spend as much time as I wanted at the madrasa, go wherever I wanted, talk to anybody I chose, even study the Koran with him.
With that, I could even study in the U.S.! Maybe I'll come back some day!" But that never happened.
"Paint, draw, sculpt – the thing is, I didn't even study art, I just did it in my spare time.
"I know there's this whole idea about the art world, that it's entirely about who you know and so forth, but I suppose that was the advantage of being quite young, I just didn't give that any thought, I didn't even study art history and well, here I am," she said.
Eventually, I couldn't even study properly anymore.
It's the kind of experience you react to with, "I wish they had this when I was studying for the SATs". I'm not even studying for the GREs, but I found myself taking the quizzes nonetheless.
I even considered studying in the locker room of the gym I belonged to because they offered babysitting for up to three hours while members worked out.
