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Maye Musk

lines on the record: 61
first: 2020-05-13
most recent: 2020-05-13
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“And funny enough, I mean, you're wearing the same clothes, and you know, there's nowhere to shower. And we were given a cup of water at night for my twin sister and I would share a cup of water to wash our faces and hands. And then in the morning we would have to break up the ice because it froze overnight and then break it up to wash our hands and face again. And I think as children, you don't mind not showering every day And sand is not dirty. Sand is quite clean. And I mean, most people, the tribes that live in the desert, they don't shower. And so we were fine with that. And this reminds me of two weeks now in isolation. If you have a roof over your head and there aren't hyenas nearby, I guess we're doing...”
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“Three weeks supply of water, gas, and food, and they went across the desert and we would sleep in our sleeping bags on the desert floor and we would zip up our sleeping bags so that the hyenas don't bite our faces off because we were quite scared of the hyenas. We weren't scared of the lions. They don't seem to bite humans so much.”
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“We went to Zimbabwe, saw the Zimbabwe ruins and the Victoria Falls was very beautiful. But we went to Botswana, which was Botswana land every July. And for three weeks, we would go across the desert. So my parents with four children and then with five children across the desert. And we would start at the one small town, I'm talking about really small town. It's fabulous now, but it was in the 50s. We would say to them, we're going across the desert with a compass to the other side to another small town. And if we weren't there in three weeks, they would send the camel patrol out to follow our tracks to find us. Because many people had died in the desert. So my parents planned ahead for all sorts of things, you know, like a woman makes a plan, but my dad made a plan too. And they packed it.”
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“My father was a chiropractor. He started his practice, he had to educate people on this. He would have a weekly, a monthly bulletin or newsletter now it's called. And actually from the age of eight, my twin sister and I work for my dad because we would print all the newsletters out and put them in envelopes and address them and send them out. And we got five cents an hour. It was quite amazing. And then at 12, we worked as receptionist for him before and after school. So from quarter to 7 to 7.30 in the morning, as well as 4 to 6 in the afternoon. And we took turns with that. So we were taught to be independent and we were paid as reception as 25 cents an hour.”
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“From what my mother told me when I asked her in her 90s why because she don't think to ask why she said they were looking between Australia and South Africa just to go adventurers go somewhere far and try new places but there were so many animals in South Africa from what they could read about in those days in 1950 and then they met missionaries who'd been working in South Africa and they said it's very beautiful and there are lots of animals so that's and there's lots of places to explore and my dad was an explorer so What we did”
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“It's magnificent. Yeah, it's a magnificent tree. And, you know, coming from Saskatchewan, you can imagine this was a beautiful site. And my dad says, this is where we will live. And he landed there.”
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“Well, I was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. You couldn't be more Canadian than that. And my parents flew around Canada and America in their one engine plane, canvas plane called a Balanka. And I actually have a photo of my twin sister and me. We were called the Flying Twins because they would fly with us. And then when we were two and a half, I mean, I can't believe how brave they were that they packed up and moved with four children on a cargo ship. They had to come on a cargo ship because my father wanted to bring his plane. He took the wings off the plane so he could fit into a container. And then we arrived in Cape Town. He put the wings back on and we flew up to Johannesburg because everyone says they speak English there, not Pretoria because they speak of recance there. But when we flew over Pretoria, it was Jackaranda time and all the streets were lined.”
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“it's not that you make a plan and stick to it. I mean, if you are a woman and you make a plan, it will not go the way you made it. It goes completely wrong sometimes. And when it does, you need to try and get out of that bad situation quicker than I did because otherwise you suffer a lot.”
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“So the idea is you can change plans, is that things change. I think it's not that you make a plan and stick to it. Because farmers are really the original entrepreneurs, right? I mean, think about it, what happens suddenly there's a flood and suddenly and they have to constantly be changing, shifting plans.”
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“Well, first of all, when you talk about your life, history and the lessons you've learned, that's what the publishers wanted me to do. So I spoke about growing up in South Africa, born in Canada, growing up in South Africa. And if things go wrong, you say a bull marker plan. That means a farmer makes a plan because in farming things go wrong and you have to make a plan. And so that's why translated it goes to a farmer makes a plan, but we thought my publisher thought, well, mostly it will be focused on women making plans, so we should call it a woman makes a plan. But many men have read my book and they say they've made plans too. So that's good.”
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“Me tell you, I have met Esther. We were actually talking in the same conference in Stockholm, and we were interviewed there together as raising three children, each of us raising three children. And we've become good friends.”
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