AS 2020 APPROACHES.................
Thinking back time...................
I started going to school in Newlyn, Cornwall, when I was 4, that is, in 1946.
In 1949, I moved to St. Paul's Junior School for boys, about a mile up a steep hill from my new home, 23 Gwavas Street, in Penzance. School started at 9 o'clock, and everyone went home for dinner every day, and back to school by 1.30. Then, in 1953, I passed the 11+ exam and went to Humphry Davy Grammar School for boys, leaving there when I was 18.
As 2020 approaches, the year will mark 60 years since I left my home in 1960 in Penzance, England, to go to college in Leicester, then, three years later, in 1963, on to become a teacher...................60 years! Wow!
And, after a long and pretty successful 33 year career as teacher, advisor, Headteacher, writer, in 1996, I moved to the city of Denver, USA, to set up an Alternative Teacher Education Program and to teach Master's classes at the University of Denver.
In 2011, I retired and eventually moved south to beautiful tourist city of Santa Fe............................... and what an environmental contrast that is to the seaside touristy town of Penzance.
And, I must say, that I love the wild semi-desert, especially the cacti and the pinon trees, but I do miss the sound and the smell and the sight of the sea.
60 years! Wow!!
I wonder where I'll be 20 years from now...........................................able to read this, I hope!
