so gopher, why do you ask if i went to Aiken High School? do you have a connection with the school?

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Also from Ohio

New England.

@JoGa, When I was in HS many moons ago, I played quizbowl and we were VERY good. At the national level, most people who did quizbowl were White or Asian males. Aiken HS was memorable because they fielded all-Black (and male) quizbowl teams and were formidable. Three of the four years that I was in HS, we were the only majority female team at Nationals. My senior year when we fielded a majority male team there was not a single majority female team at Nationals. My high school may have had even the top 5 performances of majority female teams in Nationals history at the time that I graduated from college. I'm sure that Aiken HS had a similar record for majority Black teams.

Plus my HS was a VERY "pagent"-y Southern HS and so our girls were quite different from the girls there from other places. My junior year, our captain was a runner-up for Miss Teen Texas, another girl was a working fashion model and a third was the captain of our cheerleaders, so we were a similarly memorable team demographically.

oh wow, thats really interesting. i have never heard of quizbowl though, is it something like academic team? if so our team while i was at school was very small and only white and asian males, ha. although Aiken High is still pretty much 50/50 white and black.

also i believe our academic team was very good during my years at AHS

This was more than 10 years ago.

Brighton, England, UK.

Kolkata (Calcutta), WB, India. City of palaces, second city of the empire, etc

Currently in San Francisco, by way of Chicago, USA.

Europe, Northern Hemisphere.

asunción, paraguay, south-america

I thought Lucknow was the City of Palaces and Melbourne was the Second City of the Empire.

Very specific sprg.

All right, all right. Western Europe.

Would that be North-Western Europe?

52°19′N 05°33′E specific enough? :)

ups more like: 52° 21′ N, 4° 56′ E

@sqrg: Nice Amsterdam. I've been there a couple of years ago. BTW, I was born in NGC206, Andromeda but now I live in Solar System, MWG.

@hellanic riot - Love Brighton and Hove. Hope to buy a flat there one day.

@sqrg - will be in Amsterdam in september. What do you recommend visiting/seeing/doing as a local?

North Carolina, US here.

@Ambassador: Fuck some whores, smoke your brains out! Return home with the worst case of amnesia.
Oh well, it's not what the locals do, but you wouldn't be the first tourist. Seriously though: depends on what you like. There are a few good museums, great parks (if the weather allows it). There is plenty of beautiful old buildings and places to see.
And of course: cafés, restaurants, coffeeshops, smartshops and the famous red-light district (fun to watch on a Saturday night). There is plenty of night-life going on too, if that's your thing.

What are your interests and how long are you staying? @Guaroz: what did you do in amsterdam... :)

I live in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

If you get the chance though, Ambassador, go visit some of the other cities. Leiden and Utrecht are both cool, for example. It does depend on your interests though. If you are a van Gogh fan, the windmill that he painted is in Nuenen, in the South.

@butterhead - I was born in Newport News, VA and went to college up the road at William & Mary

@The Ambassador, Brighton is alright I guess. I actually live just outside it. Houses are expensive round here though, so I wish you luck :P.

Firenze, Tuscany, Italy

From Kenya, but living in London.