Name: 【TED】克里斯托弗-阿特吉卡：領養對我的作用（領養對我的作用-克里斯托弗-阿特吉卡）。 (【TED】Christopher Ategeka: How adoption worked for me (How adoption worked for me | Christopher Ategeka))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:30:32.000Z
Duration: 7 min 58 s

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Sunny4 Hou

of seeing celebrities adopting kids from the African continent?

看到名人領養非洲大陸的小孩？

lost both my parents when I was very, very young.

我非常小的時候就失去了雙親。

I experienced all the negative effects of poverty,

Through one of those sponsor-an-orphan programs,

我的生活發生了翻天覆地的變化。

I was sponsored and given an opportunity to acquire an education.

通過一個「贊助一名孤兒」項目，

我得到贊助，有機會受到教育。

I went through school, and the way this particular program worked,

you finished high school and after high school,

我去上學，而我參與的 這個專案的運作方式是：

you go learn a trade -- to become a carpenter, a mechanic

你完成了高中學業，高中之後，

你去學一種行業── 成為木工、機械工、

The sponsor family that was sending these 25 dollars a month

贊助家庭每個月會給這間孤兒院

we would like to send you to college instead."

And they said, "If you get the paperwork,

we'll send you to school in America instead."

他們說：「若你能把文書作業搞定，

我們想改送你上美國的大學。」

I went to the embassy and applied for the visa.

I remember this day like it was yesterday.

I walked out of the embassy with this piece of paper in my hand,

至今，我還清楚記得這一天， 彷彿就像是昨天。

我走出大使館，手上拿著這張紙，

because I was afraid that someone might steal it.

I was like, "OK, I'm going to put it in a plastic bag,

and take it outside and dig a hole, and put it in there."

我想：「好，我要 把它放進一個塑膠袋，

把它拿到外面， 挖一個洞，把它放進去。」

I could not fall asleep. I was like, "Maybe someone saw me."

我真的做了，然後回到房子裡。

我睡不著，我心想： 「也許我剛有被人看到。」

I pulled it out, and I put it with me the entire night --

all to say that it was an anxiety-filled night.

我把它弄出來， 整晚都把它放在身邊。

Going to the US was, just like another speaker said,

到美國，就像另一位講者說的，

be on one, let alone sit on it to fly to another country.

One of the most gorgeous, beautiful women I've ever seen walked up,

一個我所見過最美麗、 最漂亮的女人朝我走來，

I'm looking terrified, I have no idea what I'm doing.

戴著紅色的小帽子和白色面紗。

我看起來嚇壞了， 我不知道我在做什麼。

溫暖的、蒸過的、雪白的毛巾。

I don't know what to do with my life, let alone with this damn towel --

我都不知道該拿我的人生怎麼辦了， 更何況這條該死的毛巾。

you know, anything anyone could do in that situation:

look around, see what everyone else is doing.

在那情況下，任何人 都可能這麼做的事情：

環顧四周，看看別人怎麼用它。

Mind you, I drove about seven hours from my village to the airport that day.

提醒各位，我那天是從我的村落 開了七小時的車到機場。

wipe my face just like everyone else is doing,

拿來擦臉，跟每個人的做法一樣。

I remember being so embarrassed that when she came by to pick it up,

當她回來拿毛巾時， 因為我覺得好尷尬，

to live up to my full God-given potential.

到美國這件事，為我打開了門，

讓我能把神給我的 所有潛能都發揮出來。

and they literally had to teach me everything from scratch:

this is a microwave, that's a refrigerator --

他們真的得要教我 所有一切，從零開始：

這些都是我以前沒見過的東西。

I got immersed into a new and different culture.

處在一個新的、不同的文化當中。

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anxiety

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