Students interested in Adventure Scholarship must apply by mid-November

High school students in Brandon interested in languages are invited to apply for the 2011 Deborah and Srdjan Adventure Scholarship. Former Brandon resident Deborah Grant and her husband Srdjan Tanjga have enjoyed international careers thanks to their love of travelling and having learned a second language. After her studies at Queen's University and Stanford Business School, Grant lived and worked in Hong Kong, where she learned to speak one of the Chinese dialects. Originally from Belgrade, Serbia, Tanjga perfected his English in an American high school and subsequently studied at the Harvard Business School. Though the couple and their young son now live in New York, they met in London, England. Grateful for all the opportunities that they have encountered, they set up annual adventure scholarships. One student from Brandon will have the chance to study a language other than English and preferably in Asia next summer. One Serbian student will be chosen to study English in North America. The scholarships cover all expenses -- travel, room and board, and reasonable out-of-pocket expenses. Applications are currently being accepted and the deadline is Nov. 15. The Brandon teens who have previously won the Deborah and Srdjan Adventure Scholarship were Minette Esguerra (2010) and Allison Large (2009). Lisbon was a major trading post for many Rosetta Stone Italian commodities, including human beings. An organization called the Lisbon Slave House was charged with receiving and documenting all slaves who reached Lisbon and collecting tariffs. However, those records have been lost to history, perhaps during the 1755 earthquake that leveled more than half of Lisbon and was soon followed by a tsunami and fires that raged for days. There are virtually no landmarks that explicitly acknowledge the city's role in the slave trade. But sitting along the ocean's edge in Lisbon, it's not hard to imagine the boats going back and forth, the slaves walking behind their masters and the "free" Black people going about their business for their employers and virtual masters. COLONIZATION In addition to being an important part of the slave trade, Portugal had colonies in Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Brazil and other places. Brazil gained its independence in the 19th century, but Portugal's African colonies did not have independence until the mid 1970s after Lisbon's 1974 Carnation Revolution, which ended a 40year dictatorship in Portugal. Citizens from these African nations immigrated to Lisbon and other cities after abrupt independence exacerbated instability and civil wars in their native countries. AFRO-PORTUGUESE I was surprised to see the number of Black people in Lisbon. From everyday, white-collar Afro-Portuguese who were born and raised in Lisbon, to multhingual African vendors on the streets selling colorful wares from their homes, I saw many people who looked just like me. Lisbon is an interesting place with a diverse and brutal past, which has shaped the modern city into an awe-inspiring testament to the great abilities of man for good and evil.

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