My son was contacted today by a friend from the Gifted Program in Etobicoke that he left in 1997 after Grade 4 in order to go to Britain. Its part of the glories of e-mail that his name was on a widespread e-mail sent by another friend.
Nandeep was himself from Britain, Northampton, whose parents came over when he was in Grade 2, was tested and ended up in Robbie's class at Broadacres. He is now, like Robbie finishing High School and about to go on to University.
But in the copious spare time of a High School Student (still in the Gifted Program) he has earned an MBA. He's now a consultant. I am both flabbergasted and delighted that he's done so well. He's a really sweet kid too, and has sought Robbie out because everybody loves Robbie. That too is quite astonishing, but Robbie gets along well with everybody, and is on the outs with nobody. Most of his friends marvel at this.
An MBA, before his undergraduate degree even starts, somehow I think this kid's going to do alright. Chalk one up for education.
Rob
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with Nandeep, and we really liked his parents who came to visit us before we left and even gave us some small appliances that they had brought over thinking they would work here.
Northampton on the other hand is nothing to write home, or any where else, about. Its about as ugly a southern Midlands town as you could ask for. Britain is either very attractive, or ugly as hell, sometimes both at the same time. We saw a military pagent at a stately home near there that started with the Celts and the Romans and ended with the Warsaw Pact. Amazing the number of Wehrmacht World War 2 style that were fully equipped with all the gear and weapons. MG42's, mortars, potato masher grenades, the lot. Quite amazing.
Glasgow which used to be the industrial armpit of the British Isles has been cleaned up and rebuilt and remodelled until the last year we were in Britain it was "The European City of Culture". Its really attractive downtown, the tenements have been turned into really attractive apartments, and you have to drive out to the 'burbs to find the ugly bits anymore. That and the Burl Collection which is one of the most extraordinary Museums no one has ever heard about, make it a must see. The guy, Burl collected his whole life, but mostly it went into warehouses and sat in its original crates. It took nearly 50 years for Glasgow to build a museum, but when they did they built a beauty, and when all the crates were opened, the Museum Community world wide gasped. It has a bit of everything but this guy was collecting in the late 19th and first half of the 20th Century when much of the collection was cheap cheap cheap. So he got a big bang for his Pounds, shillings, and pence and it all shows. I haven't done this because I've been going by my friends extensive photographs, but try Googling it and see what they'll show you.
Rob
Sir William Burrell ( 1861- 1958), born in Glasgow, the son of a shipping agent, made a fortune before he was forty and retired soon afterwards, to devote the rest of his long life to amassing an art collection many of whose individual parts stand comparison with the holdings of almost any museum in the world. The Burrell Collection was opened in 1983 in a gallery specially designed and built to display it.
http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/venue/index.cfm?venueid=1
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