Mehmet Aliu-Hertica was a week away from moving in to his newly-built house with his family when he was asked if the Sami Frashëri gymnasium faculty could hold a meeting there since they had nowhere else to go. After Milošević regime legislation made Serbian the official language of Kosovo and removed all Albanians from public service in the 1990s, Albanians were excluded from schools as well. By February 1992, Albanians created the so-called parallel system of education hosted mostly in private homes. The never-occupied Hertica family home became Sami Frashëri gymnasium with classes conducted in three shifts. “I could no longer imagine living in that house,” Mr. Aliu-Hertica said, “even if the students were to leave one day.” This collective experience had irreversibly changed the notion of home. The Hertica family house was burned down by Milosević regime’s army during the 1999 Kosovo war and ever since remains in ashes.