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Lorenz Nkosie Small

Birth

He was born Dec 4 1999 (on Tobago Assembly Day) in Speyside Tobago to then Belle Garden Anglican Primary teacher Steve Watts Small and Speyside health center nursing assistant Jacqueline Edwards Small. [to insert life details] Lorenz always admired his neighbor miss Ida who taught at the Speyside High School even at a very young age. He also like play teaching with plants and dressing up as female teachers he had in school. Along with his sister and cousins, he would also roleplay baby deliveries using mango embryos. At preschool graduation he said he wanted to be a "bandit doctor." [to insert life details]

Education

He attended Speyside Early Childhood before attending Speyside Anglican Primary school which he left for Scarborough Methodist School in standard 3 in the year 2009. In primary school, he would meet friends and family members who he related to. His academic ability was noted from first year. He took part in the Flavorite Spelling Bee, Mental Mathematics Olympiad and Healthy Foods Speech Contest. He placed #8 in the Tobago SEA exam before placing into BHS. [to insert life details]

At this high school, he would excel in a variety of subjects particularly the natural sciences. He attributed his academic achievements to the efforts of his parents, individual ability and great public-school teachers. His mainstream teachers not only served to educate him for the majority of his first 18 years, but many became mentors. These would include Miss Janine of Speyside ECC, Ora Best of Delaford, Prisca Jack, Mr Hammond (BHS), Miss Sesanker (BHS), Sir Alleyne (BHS), Nikola Trim (BHS), Miss Grant Kennedy (BHS), Miss Ramsey (BHS), Miss Charles Jordan (BHS), Miss John (BHS), Miss Latisha Renese Ross (BHS), Sir Job (BHS), Miss Holder (BHS), Miss Elliot (BHS), Miss James (BHS), Miss Ramnarine (BHS), Miss Kimone Smith (BHS), Miss Stewart (BHS), Mr Morrison(BHS) and Miss Second (BHS). He also had many influences and friends such as entertainer and BHS handyman Carl Daggar Hector and close friend and cleaner miss Judy. [to insert life details]

He did attend many extra classes which supplemented for a broken education system inclusive of the Signal Hill Comprehensive and Scarborough Secondary school along with classes from accounts teacher Miss Ria Scott, business teacher Miss Gerry from Calder Hall and Miss Second who taught him a combination of the two. He would attend Mathematics extra classes by veteran Cecil Dalrymple, Physics by signal hill teacher Mr. Wilson, Chemistry by Roxborough resident Patterson Brooks and Trinbagonian biochemical engineer Shanice Musgrave who worked at the Scarborough General Hospital and would be the key person in his life that influenced him to pursue a medical career (besides his love of Grey's Anatomy and his family's input). His biology extra classes were led by Nikeisha Trim of Scarborough Secondary and Miss Bacchus from Signal Hill. Lorenz would do two years of 6th form and would not achieve his goal of obtaining a national scholarship. He did however make grades in CSEC and CAPE good enough to get into university. It was also at this time he would meet a few teachers who would influence his view of himself as a Caribbean young person: secondary school supervisor and Caribbean studies teacher Miss Washington Thom, communications educator and adopted aunt Edlin Rochford, Zia Hackett and Farley Augustine. After taking a gap year, he would move to UWI Mona Jamaica to pursue an MBBS degree. It was at this time he decided who his three life mentors were going to be: Dr Ben Carson, Dr Frantz Fanon and Dr Che Guevera (all of whom were involved in medicine, education and politics). [to insert life details]

It was during medical school that he would become disillusioned with the medical field. His grades were average or less and he started becoming quite ill. It was during his fourth year, 2023; Lorenz would take a 3-month sabbatical to pursue his passion in education. For the first time in his life, he started taking a genuine interest in extra-curriculars (without the intent to put on a resume).

Creator of Discovering Tobago

Lorenz started working on a website and YouTube channel called Discovering Tobago which he was influenced to create by his sister Sharise. By 2020, the middle of the COVID- 19 pandemic and the 2020 election season, his passions would take him to research a variety of interests in culture, history, gaming, literature, education, non-traditional medicine and politics all while attending full time Zoom sessions. By 2021, he expanded his website across all social media platforms and started exporting content onto them to counteract the undersubscription to the site.

He would also model himself with new mentors at this time: physician advocate Dr Pamela Wible, actors Ryan Gosling and Keanu Reeves, the character Morpheus from the matrix and men's fashion designer Kevin Samuels. He would also begin a journey into the works of several authors, musicians and Tobago folk.

Experimenting with Education

Pioneering Community Health

Philosophy

He describes his magnum opus of Connecting the Dots by describing his belief in Worker's Rights more than anything else. He believed in modern life work forms the center of a human being to which it became their identity. A cruel work environment is what he blamed for all the problems of the world. He also is a strong advocate for proper Worker's Education as he believed the schooling system was dishonest in how it went about educating the population. This he says is his reason for the cause of all Health problems in this world (inclusive of evil, tyranny and oppression).

Personal Life