"I think it's French. But that could be because when I was in New York working for British government at the UN, I was also doing language training in Russian," he says. "It took me two years to learn how to say which is hello in Russian two years." He has not lost his aspiration to go and work in humanitarian aid in Decarse Senegal.

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