Yay for the Dominican Republic, Jinal! I spent last summer researching African American folktales, including lots of beautiful stories from the Caribbean. Now I just need to find a way to go visit there! SOMEDAY.
Hi! My name is Jinal Wani, I am twenty one years old and a third year undergraduate student here at the University of Oklahoma. I am currently studying health and exercise science in hopes of one day being a physical therapist or an athletic trainer. I grew up in Flower Mound, Texas, a suburb on the outskirts of Dallas. I grew up in a household with my mom, dad, brother and dog. My brother is a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas with a degree in mechanical engineering. Although I am a third year student, this is only my second semester attending the University of Oklahoma. My first two years of undergraduate school were spent at the University of Texas at Austin, of course I just had to make the switch between the two most rivalous schools. I found myself in Austin to be very lost amidst the big city, and overwhelmed with the culture shock from my hometown to a busy part of town. It took a lot of humbling myself to finally admit I needed to make a ch...
The King's White Elephant carpenters lived on a river bank near a forest they noticed a wounded elephant they tended to the elephant, and he was so grateful that he helped the carpenters with their work he would bring them tree trunks, fetch their tools. move logs into the river etc as the elephant grew older, he started bringing his son with him to show him the ways of the work one day the king spotted the beautiful white elephant the king paid the carpenters a lot of money to keep the white elephant for his own Father Son Elephants
Yay for the Dominican Republic, Jinal! I spent last summer researching African American folktales, including lots of beautiful stories from the Caribbean. Now I just need to find a way to go visit there! SOMEDAY.
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