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Turbineguy

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4. I went to a school where they had
Wed Jul 9, 2014, 09:05 AM
Jul 2014

lights. Red orange and green to signal when classes ended and started. It was beautifully synchronized. The Latin Instructor looked like a Roman Senator, the French Guy wore an alpino and the English Instructor was very much an Anglophile. If you weren't paying attention in biology, you got to come up and shake hands with Pete, the skeleton.

And as for hormonal sensitivity, in Latin class, the Roman soldiers always seemed to be sticking their swords into their sheaths. "Let us proceed to the Forum, Quintus!" Because as everyone knows, Romans never just walked anywhere, they proceeded. We learned about the Laws of Hammurabi and Mechanics. We took field trips to unusual places. The school had parties that lasted the whole weekend.

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