inquisitive

"I often skipped school to try and catch fish, from morning to evening. Sometimes I would almost faint [from hunger]. It was a part of country life," he said.When his grandmother passed away, he had to live in a pagoda for a period.But Dara recalls being told more than once as a child that he would one day be a journalist because of his inquisitive nature. At the time, he didn't know what the word meant.