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Post by alba on Sept 4, 2008 19:29:04 GMT -5
You didn't start till 9:30? I started at 8:15, though next year 9:00 lectures seem early (and it takes me less time to get to them, too!).
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Post by child-of-fae on Sept 4, 2008 20:28:06 GMT -5
the kind where you don't just say it's your second home, it literally is. they have breakfast in the cafe till five minutes before first bell but you can still grab fresh baked cookies cause there's always too many.
we don't technically get dismissed till 2:40 but we stop working at 2:30
at first it's annoying, but by the middle of the year you get used to waking up at 5:30 to get to the shower before your sister, and it's actually kinda fun because you see all the 'good' teachers (and by that i mean the fun ones) so often that they basically let you camp out in their classrooms till first bell so you can eat/sleep/finish homework/whatever.
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Post by naoise on Sept 5, 2008 7:48:22 GMT -5
wait do you go to a boarding school ? That multi leveled stuff is weird! Well I guess our school had a few levels but they were all voluntary to join except for enhanced.
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Post by Trey on Sept 5, 2008 12:03:28 GMT -5
My school starts at 7:30, which is why I sometimes don't go to my math class.
I mean I always go! << >>
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Post by alba on Sept 5, 2008 13:43:49 GMT -5
lol, Trey. Very studious.
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Post by child-of-fae on Sept 5, 2008 14:08:21 GMT -5
no, noisy, i don't go to boarding schools.
however it is possible to be there for upwards of fifteen hours a day. i did it once. it sucked balls by then end because i wasn't feeling well that day.
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Post by espacefine on Sept 5, 2008 18:21:39 GMT -5
It's funny. I actually love going to my college. Going to classes, not always as much. <.<
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Post by Trey on Sept 6, 2008 1:17:57 GMT -5
I might have fucked up one of my classes. I needed to go to this orientation by the end of this week, and I'm so lazy... I haven't gone yet. I'm going to go Monday and see if they'll still let me take the class. =/
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Post by acilf on Sept 6, 2008 2:42:44 GMT -5
my high school started at 8. then they randomly changed all the times so everything started/ended at the weirdest times. ie: instead of now starting at 8am and going to 3pm it was 8:02am-2:57pm and classes started at weird times to so I had no clue when the hell my classes started anymore. Thank the gods it was only my last year there that they made the crazy schedules.
FYI: I love my university and so glad I'm back at school. Yes I know i'm going to be in horrible panic by the end of next week. But hey it's all good right? To let you all know, ancient greek = hard but I memorized the alphabet last night while at work!
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Post by espacefine on Sept 6, 2008 10:48:53 GMT -5
Fuck yes, greek is hard. My bosses write and speak greek. It's horrible to make out the stuff they want me to do sometimes. D'=
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Post by child-of-fae on Sept 6, 2008 14:25:12 GMT -5
i learned greek for about half of eight grade. however, it wasn't "proper" greek because my teacher has grown up speaking it (her parents still live in greece) but i still have my notebook. it honestly wasn't as hard for me as french and spanish are.
however, gaelic takes te cake, because some of it is so easy, but then some of it i'm hopeless with.
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Post by alba on Sept 6, 2008 22:13:55 GMT -5
as far as Gaelic (Scottish) is concerned, I can say "Dùin do bheul, thrusdair" (pronounced "doon do vee-ul, shoosh-dare", it means "shut your mouth, creep") and "Pòg ma thòin" (pronounced "pog ma hone", it means "kiss my arse").
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Post by child-of-fae on Sept 6, 2008 23:27:04 GMT -5
Well, i've always learned Póg Mo Thóin as Irish dialect.
that's the hard part. I'm learning Irish-Gaelic. and then in that dialect i know of Ulster, Munster, and Connaught.
Which is confusing because based on where my family is from, i'd speak munster-dialect, but a majority of the time i'm learning a good chunk tends to be ulster-dialect.
I want to find a class, because right now i'm just picking things up from my aunt, and she hasn't spoken it in years (she took a class a while back and was on her way to being fluent)
It sucks when school stresses being bilingual so that you're more well-rounded, but the languages you like best aren't offered. I was actually supposed to take latin for a quarter freshman year, which i was so excited about, but they dropped the class right when i started.
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Post by alba on Sept 7, 2008 10:52:33 GMT -5
I think Póg Ma Thóin is both (though I can never remember whether they're grave or acute accents). I learned it off the BBC website once while procrastinating, and that was Scottish Gaelic. However, it was also the original name of the band "The Pogues", who are Irish, but they weren't getting any airtime due to the name so changed it
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Post by acilf on Sept 8, 2008 1:35:15 GMT -5
aww, fae that sucks that they dropped your Latin class. Latin's amazing! Participles suck arse though. But I think that's with any language you have to learn.
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