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Jim Hirsch
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Jim Hirsch
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1965-1967 |
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Memories of school:
Major shock and trauma on arriving in Jan 1967, since I had never been away from home and felt pretty bad about being
dumped in the school. However, over the 3 years I was there I gradually worked out how to organise my life a bit better
and started to enjoy the place a lot more, particularly sports (squash, swimming, running and rubgy) and Sunday afternoons
going illegally off the campus and having tea in a local hotel with Ashok Sethi. I particularly enjoyed the last couple of
terms as a prefect in Junior House with fags under my total control. It seems amazing now that that happened in my
lifetime, but it was fun for me and we had a great trip for the house up Longonot.
After leaving school:
I got reasonable A levels, a degree from London university and started teaching, which was another big shock, having never
had much to do with your average English secondary modern school kids. After 3 years I went to Italy to teach in an
International school and after 6 years of that, decided that I'd had enough and computers were more interesting than kids,
so I re-trained and have worked in various jobs in a software house in Birmingham, UK.
I've been back to Kenya once in 1994 with my 2 children and enjoyed a visit to the school which didn't look so different.
Also enjoyed seeing the main quadrangle in the film 'Out of Africa'.
(Registered - 18th Oct 2004)
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