I was picked up in the morning by a driver from a taxi company who was specially engaged to pick up the students at home and bring them back home towards the end of the afternoon. That is, if you were lucky enough to live no further north than Sittard ….
The most important school in my career as a student was the rehabilitation center Franciscusoord. Just before that I spent a year on St. Raphael, the predecessor of Franciscusoord …
Franciscusoord was not a big school; there were about 200 children, about 40 of whom were on secondary education. It was far from that far for me in the early 1970s; I was still in primary school. I don’t remember much of the lowest classes …
I am blessed with knack for languages; something in which I am not alone in our family. Writing an essay was therefore part of the learning process that I looked forward to every time.