How on earth did you come about spending so much time in these two rather different

So I spent a fair amount of time in these global cities, but prior to living in these global cities, I was born and raised in Jamaica and spent a fair amount of time, much of my childhood in the Caribbean and then moved to New York City to complete secondary school, went to university in the U.S. and then came to the U.K. to pursue postgraduate, what are called postgraduate studies here, what we call graduate studies in the U.S., And in the process of doing much of this work, I've been in the classroom.

I've been an after-school teacher or after-school program manager.

I've been sort of a nonprofit leader.

I've done a fair amount of work in and outside the classroom.

But during my time in London, I came across what for me seemed like a perplexing paradox, where I, one day in a chance conversation with a Black Caribbean teacher with salt and pepper hair I call Miss Bell, She expressed to me in no uncertain terms her surprise that as a Black Caribbean person that I could study at the University of Cambridge.

She was shocked by that.

Do you think she was convinced? Like, did she agree with you that you sort of made sense of this paradox that you initially started out exploring all those years ago?