My essay from 1998
> • Reflect upon your years of elementary and secondary education > and select a person, an event, or a class that has had a great impact on your life and explain your selection. > > > In my whole elementary and secondary school life no other educationalist has had a more determining influence on me than Mr. Young. > > I remember as if it was yesterday. The icy morning wind howled through the oak trees once green but now hanging limply vulnerable to the battering wind as their bare boughs tell their own sad story. A twisted branch scraped the large window above causing a screeching noise sending shivers down my spine. I was still in shock after hearing myself accept the Dean’s proposition to just go and mingle with the rest of the Form and kicked myself hard under the chair. Here I was in my first Secondary year in a new school, a new place even a relatively new country, no friends or relations for miles on end but destined to acquaint myself with...