>16 yr old nephew stayed over this weekend by me on the UpperWestSide.
>he's a junior in a rural (Hagerstown) Maryland high school. his comments
>on the stupidity of his surroundings make Wojtsek sound like a booster
>Rotarian. he wants to take a year off after graduating, leave the US &
>learn another language. then he wants to go to college in Canada. i want
>him sent to family and friends in Berlin. he dreams of Prague where
>he could meet the computer game designers.
I wonder how rural Maryland compares with, say, rural Bavaria or Alberta?
Doug