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popular boy was, and his peers chanted his name. Unlike the popular boys who gave teachers trouble, Michael was disciplined.

He was not athletic either. His first school sports was not a nice experience and that was the last time he was involved in track and field. “At nursery school, I was told by the teacher just before a relay race to not run until I received the baton from my partner,” he explained. “The child who was supposed to hand me the baton, dropped the baton and came running without it. My competitors ran off and I just stood there. My teacher was like ‘what happen? Run, run!’ and I was like ‘Me ain’t got nothing’ and she said ‘Run!’ so I just walk to the finish line, and that was it for me in sports.”

In the beginning of his adult life,

Michael settled into selling and repairing watches on Water Street and he would doodle in his book whenever he had the free time. People passing would exclaim that his work was impressive and before long people began turning up, not to repair watches, but to have him draw pictures of them or someone special to them. The more he drew, the more he realized that he could make a living doing something he loved. Michael then decided that he needed to take an art course which led to him attending the E R Burrowes School of Art then later the University of Guyana.

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