BS Backstory
Share Article Dark, a tour guide for Get Out, a Cuban travel company, visited Never-Never Land in 2009.
He met Strange, an H’mong man among men speaking excellent English. His nickname was Wandering Buffalo.
He worked with UXO, the Unexploded Ordinance Organization demining land in the morning and teaching English afternoons. He developed a soccer team.
Dark and his co-founder cohort Thor, a Viking singing sagas while invading Ireland helped Strange.
They established soccer team funding to take the Lao team to an international football event in Havana with caviar, cigars, goat cheese and noodle soup.
One week before leaving Strange died.
Dark and Thor made the Lao kids’ dreams come true. They went to Havana by steamship.
In 2012 they created BS offering English education to H’mong students in memory of Strange. Memories are strange.
Dark called Wick his best friend in Beijing asking for teaching help and setting up the school. Wick, a 55-year old Cuban trained lawyer and former financial analyst on Walled Street arrived.
Wick and Dark enrolled H’mong kids, used Sharp Cutting Edge texts and developed community awareness.
Dark did the marketing and publicity - embassies in China, Mongolia, South America and international companies. He filed NGO non-profit charity application documents in Greenland to facilitate Ice-9 donations.
After eighteen months of self-induced torture at BS Wick accepted a teaching job in Ulan Bator, Mongolia with yurts and steppes. Big money at a private school, he said, I need travel money for Uruguay. Try Patagonia, said IT, fresh off the banana boat.
Dark advertised for a volunteer teacher.
In the summer of 2013 Wick went to Ulan Bator, confirmed his new big money job and bought seventeen boxes of textbooks for elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate and advanced students at BS. He shipped them back by raft on the Mekong.
IT arrived in August. He met Dark in Luang Prabang overlooking the wild wide wet Nam Ou River and rolling green hills.
Dark was nervous about the situation and teacher transition. It was his baby. He’d invested his time, money and efforts in BS. He needed to feel secure in his choice.
He practiced micro-management with high anxiety.
It’s going to be ok, said Prophetic. Relax.
Dark left for Papa New Guinea seeking Mama Guinea and baby Guinean head hunters and cannibals while leading well heeled British tourists carrying clean drinking water through dengue malaria infected jungles, 5* menus and 300-count Egyptian linen.
IT began a new adventure at BS.