2020 Recap
At the end of the year, people typically look back on what has happened and make lists of favorite new movies, albums or books, but at the end of this train wreck of a year, I couldn’t really come up with anything worth saying that hasn’t been said a million times already so I decided to look back a bit further. A lot further, in fact. I don’t know exactly what triggered it, but I thought about my high school years a lot recently, so I decided to highlight some of my favorite teachers. You often hear people complain that high school was a drag and that they didn’t like it but I always enjoyed it. I spent my high school years at a place called the St. Antonius College in the city of Gouda in Holland, just outside Rotterdam. It was a midsized school back then, with about 700 students, housed in a 4 story building with 2 gyms, a large arts and crafts area and a cafeteria/gathering space (called ‘aula’ in Dutch). It was a pleasant place to go to school, despite it being on the edge of