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An Introduction
Throughout my life I have been very lucky, I have met fascinating people, witnessed important periods in my country's history, spoken with some remarkable women, and worked for Minka, a Peruvian non-governmental organisation, which helps the poorest handicraft producers in my country by exporting their products.Over the years I have interviewed distinguished academics, like Maria Rostworowski, or just happened to encounter celebrities, such as Mori Sensei, one lunch time in La Sorbonne. Because of my work as an interpreter I have travelled extensively throughout my country, gathering knowledge and impressions. And not least significant amongst all these impressions, my grandmother shared with me many of her dreams, her beliefs, and her experiences.
When I joined the Lima Toast Masters' Club I used this information for my speeches, I also drew upon it for drafting reports and articles for Minka. On reading them over I realised that what I have written, read, learnt and treasured, should be shared.
Another significant person I happened to meet was Alexei Grishin, when I requested the help of my international colleagues: fellow translators whom I met and know only through the Internet. Alexei kindly sent me nine e-mails suggesting sites in the web where I could find the exact translation for a specific term. Thus started the short but valuable correspondence which, it might be said, fathered this Web-site.
That being so, its mother might be said to be another colleague and friend encountered through the 'net. Harry Pattinson is an English writer and photographer, who produced this Web-site on my behalf. Corresponding with Harry has turned out to be one of the more exhilarating and pleasurable experiences that the Internet has provided me (it is only at my insistence that this praise passed his editing and is included here..!).
The Internet is almost unbelievable. My grandmother, born in 1887, was a visionary, and I remember how moved she was by having been alive to see men visiting the moon. I often wonder how amazed she would be to read messages and see pictures which had travelled unseen through phone lines across the oceans, to correspond instantaneously - or even converse - with unseen Belgian, Australian, American, Swedish, British, Canadian and Brazilian friends, and all for the cost of a local phone call.
So please feel free to browse, to read - even to criticise - and help me improve and expand upon these pages.
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