“I learned this in Germany, to learn how to use... technology.., modern knowledge and adapting them to the need of the people. ...[T]his was only possible because I was working with the people. So learning... old techniques from my people, training to make them a little better.., to make them last longer.., to connect traditional knowledge to modern knowledge. [S]ometimes I feel like a bridge... between your culture and my own culture, between your culture of science and mine, which is on the very beginning... [of] development...”