Where do I
begin? To tell the story of Gary? Full
name Eric Gary Wayne Lee, born
in South America my siblings consisted
of four sisters being the only boy, I
was by
myself most of the time, I guess
that made me introverted and more
focused on other things. My mother is
Scottish, French and Spanish descent,
my father Chinese and Indian. I was
sent to private schools from young and
at the age of eleven, I took and
passed an exam and won a free
scholarship to Queen's College, I was
the second youngest boy there.
At the age of seventeen I finished my G.C.E.
Examinations set by the University of
London and before I knew it I was out
into the real world, at the time I
could not get a job because I was too
young, so I learned to play the guitar
and ride motorcycles until I was
eighteen until I was old enough to
work , my jobs as I remember them
started as a cartographer, I
left that to join the British Army but
went on to be SIC of POS with American
life, one day I was riding to work and
my bike quit. I never returned, I was
so curious to find out what was wrong
with my bike I went to the Honda
Motorcycle company and asked them to
hire me for 2 weeks so I can learn
about bikes, which I did, I left
that job to work with WHO PAHO as an
evaluator for their Malaria
Eradication Program, Started Ranching
shortly after that and had my first
introduction to computers and
accounting equipment by NCR, left that
and went back to ranching,. Then I was
a chief Mechanic, did some
driving in the bush and had
experiences in driving across rivers
swamps etc., adventures in crossing
raging currents in a dug out tree
trunk, as I write I will probably
go back and forth and I remember and
hopefully will edit this page and get
it right
My travels
I have traveled and lived in a total
of 14 countries,
British Guiana,
(Guyana)
Dutch Guiana, (Suriname) Brazil, Venezuela,
Trinidad, Barbados, Spain, France,
Great Britain, Luxemburg, Holland, Germany, Canada
and the USA where so far I visited 37
states and hundreds of towns.
I once lived among the South American
Indians when I worked for World Health
Organization where I was an evaluator
for Malaria, I owned a ranch, was
attacked one night in a hammock by an
Indian who tried to cut my head off
while I was sleeping, I awoke in time
to block the machete with my left
hand, I bear that scar to this day
which left me slightly handicapped
(lack of use of all my fingers) it is
unnoticeable and no one sees it,..
to be continued...
Languages
Of course fluent in English,
Portuguese, lately from not using them
I am forgetting my other languages
like French, Chinese (didn't get to
learn much of that my grandmother used
to teach me when I was little and some
of my Chinese relatives had
restaurants where I picked up a few
words) German and some
Spanish
Hobbies and other stuff
I can sing and play the guitar, I
raced motorcycles professionally both
in International and local races, I am
a great mechanic, I
once had a ranch so I can ride rope, I am nicknamed McGyver by some
of my friends and colleagues, show me
anything once and I will either be
able to do it or get it.
to be
continued......
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