There was this great quote in the Branding book for Lego. "Childhood is not the beginning of life. It is life." (the quote is by a 4 year old). So now that I think back and put myself in the age of 11 or 12. It was a quite serious time. I felt like a very serious person at that time. I had my first computer, an Atari 600XL and I hacked away. I still have the computer somewhere, probably in Germany. My parents and I (and our dog) escaped to Germany when I was 11. It was all a secret operation and none of us spoke the language. So the age around 11 was one of the most intense times of my life. I had to quickly learn German as well as English, in order to get into a German Highschool (and then Russian too, as a "second language"). I managed to get in. I learned German in about a year. My German surely was not perfect, but when my mother went to talk to my teacher later that year, and told her that we had just come from Poland, the teacher asked her, how long we had been in Poland. She did not realize that I had been in Poland all my life. I am not very good with spelling I seem to learn laguages by listening to them, so my German papers were just really bad. How did I get onto this Tangent?... not quite sure...