The Atlanta Daily World – Maia McDonald
“One of the questions I typically find most difficult to answer are ones where people ask you about yourself. Usually, I default to telling people that I have a twin sister, but another one I find more fun–not that my sister isn’t fun–is that I studied Japanese for 5 ½ years. It probably isn’t something you’d hear from a black girl who grew up on the south side and is the granddaughter of Jamaican immigrants. The high school that I went to, Whitney Young Magnet High School, offered several different languages that I could study, including Latin, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese and more. The language that stood out to me the most was Japanese, because of my exposure to anime cartoons and manga comics, which I watched and read growing up. It seemed like such a cool language, and I was very excited to learn it.”(more)