1980 (15 YEARS OLD)

1980 - 15 Years Old Spud, our French teacher, gave us a cultural-differences chat before our upcoming school exchange trip to France. It took the wind out of our sails. One

1980 - 15 Years Old Our rugby team needed to raise money for our new team jerseys. We needed 20, for the first 15 and the 5 substitutes. That meant

1980 - 15 Years Old If you were a boy growing up in the 1970s, you had to have a Bruce Lee poster. It was the rule. Even Tony Manero

1980 (15 Years Old) Tudor Hall. An all-girls boarding school located a couple of miles outside of town. And an asylum for hundreds of sex-crazed nymphomaniacs, begging for boys. Any boys.

Aaah. The school disco. Remember Saturday Night Fever? Well, it was nothing like that. So crap. Yet so magical. We would have a disco at our school on a Thursday night.

By the time I was a teen, my dad had given up on the nonsense of trying to impress people. And while I embrace that philosophy now, it was hard

The evening before I left for my school-exchange program to Besancon, France, my parents gave me a stern talking to. I say parents, but I mean my mum. My dad