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In reply to the discussion: What is the average age group of posters on this forum? [View all]DFW
(54,370 posts)I was offered a chance to go live in Spain for a year starting in the fall, and I hated my school, which was becoming more and more reactionary, so off I went. I knew Spain was still run by the fascist government of Franco, but I figured there had to be a healthy resistance, especially in the part I was headed for (Catalunya), and I wasn't disappointed. I learned to speak Catalan, and came close to being accepted as one of them. Catalan is close to a version of Medieval French, and isn't too hard to figure out if you speak Spanish and French, and I had a rudimentary handle of both by that time. I was then offered a chance to spend my senior year of high school in New England, which I did, although I HATED the school I landed at. Of course, the school I had been at in DC was pretty awful, too, so I stuck it out. Ironically, both schools are now reputed to have a progressive outlook, especially the one in D.C., where the Clintons and Obamas sent their children. In my day, I would have recommended both places as institutions to which one sent juvenile offenders.