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Figgy1

Figgy1

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wdwfan4ver said:
Its only going to 60 or 61 today. It is good weather for my dad. He's doing multiple coats of paint on the front porch.

Tomorrow is supposed a high in the mid 60s. It is good weather for my parents tomorrow. They are having filet mignon, fried mushrooms, and baked potatoes tomorrow.
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Love for your parents meal giant sad face for the weather
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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John park hopper said:
Yes and you can get it petting your dog if they have been in it, or off your shoes
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Yep, I had an old pair of tennis shoes that I only used for yard work that I had on and didn’t know I had the case of poison ivy that I had on ‘em at the time. I put ‘em back on at one point a few weeks later to do somethin’ else unrelated to yard work, and the resin was still on there and I got a second dose...my doc confirmed...she said if you don’t somehow kill it all, it’ll come back and haunt you...boy howdy, that second run of it was a total joy...!!!!!!! :joyfull::hilarious:;):)
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Letteyeti said:
I think I am the same way as your 14 year old daughter @Songbird76 . I love being creative and I love to help people. I took 2 years of German and the 1st year was very basic and I left that year not really learning much. The 2nd year the first half of the year was a review and then the second half I got screwed and had to learn it pretty much on my own online which didn't really happen. So I did end up getting the credits for German I & II but came out of it learning squat. It is great your daughter is coming into high school with some really good classes that she seems to like. Tell her though she doesn't have to make up her mind right away and some classes she takes she will think are awesome and other will suck unfortunately. Tell her to also get involved socially. It is huge.
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Well, for right now, they don't get to choose. Everyone takes the same classes. School is set up a lot differently here, and after elementary school, you are divided by levels. You have the basic school that is only 4 years (2 years of junior high, 2 years of high school) so you finish when you're 16. That's for kids who struggle more with a classroom setting. Then you have a kind of middle level that's also 4 years, but has mostly a classroom setting....that's the most like the schools in the US, except that it's only 4 years instead of 6. Then you have a slightly higher level...it's harder, but only 5 years. Then what my daughter is doing is the highest level...it's basically like an AP high school. It's 6 years and it's what you need to do if you want to go to university. But everyone in your level does the same classes for the first couple of years. So my daughter has English, French, German, Dutch, Geography, History, World Orientation, Religion, Physics, Math, Art, PE, Music, Research and design Technology, and there may be one more I'm forgetting. Then next year she gets to drop World Orientation, but adds Biology and Chemistry, and economics, and she's chosen to continue with the research and design, though that isn't mandatory, but it's her favorite class. Then at the end of next year, which would be her freshman year in American terms, they have to choose which subjects they want to continue with. She's worried, because she's pretty sure she has to choose between the research and design and Art, which are her 2 favorites. She doesn't want to have to drop one. She'll also probably have to drop either German or French. But for now, they don't have a choice. Those are the subjects they all take at her level. But, unlike the US, she will have to choose a direction after her 3rd year. She'll have to decide whether she wants to focus on the sciences and math, social sciences (like history and culture), creative (music, art) or sports. I would imagine she'll choose the sciences and math, but I don't know, and I'm not sure where the languages fit in. But high school here is more like college...you have to have a major of sorts from your sophomore year.
 
Letteyeti

Letteyeti

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Songbird76 said:
Well, for right now, they don't get to choose. Everyone takes the same classes. School is set up a lot differently here, and after elementary school, you are divided by levels. You have the basic school that is only 4 years (2 years of junior high, 2 years of high school) so you finish when you're 16. That's for kids who struggle more with a classroom setting. Then you have a kind of middle level that's also 4 years, but has mostly a classroom setting....that's the most like the schools in the US, except that it's only 4 years instead of 6. Then you have a slightly higher level...it's harder, but only 5 years. Then what my daughter is doing is the highest level...it's basically like an AP high school. It's 6 years and it's what you need to do if you want to go to university. But everyone in your level does the same classes for the first couple of years. So my daughter has English, French, German, Dutch, Geography, History, World Orientation, Religion, Physics, Math, Art, PE, Music, Research and design Technology, and there may be one more I'm forgetting. Then next year she gets to drop World Orientation, but adds Biology and Chemistry, and economics, and she's chosen to continue with the research and design, though that isn't mandatory, but it's her favorite class. Then at the end of next year, which would be her freshman year in American terms, they have to choose which subjects they want to continue with. She's worried, because she's pretty sure she has to choose between the research and design and Art, which are her 2 favorites. She doesn't want to have to drop one. She'll also probably have to drop either German or French. But for now, they don't have a choice. Those are the subjects they all take at her level. But, unlike the US, she will have to choose a direction after her 3rd year. She'll have to decide whether she wants to focus on the sciences and math, social sciences (like history and culture), creative (music, art) or sports. I would imagine she'll choose the sciences and math, but I don't know, and I'm not sure where the languages fit in. But high school here is more like college...you have to have a major of sorts from your sophomore year.
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That sounds really difficulty and also really stressful. So is it very hard to get into college I guess you are from the UK?
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Letteyeti said:
That sounds really difficulty and also really stressful. So is it very hard to get into college I guess you are from the UK?
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Oh, no I live in the Netherlands. I am American, but I married a Dutchie, so we live about 15 minutes from the German border.

As for college, it's not that it's hard to get into, it's just that you have to have the prerequisites. You can not go to a university unless you have completed the highest level of high school, OR if you took one of the lower levels of high school and then worked your way up. So like...if you take the lower level of high school, when you finish that level, you can move on to the next one, but you have to add 2 years. My son qualified to do the highest level, but he's Autistic and goes to a special school for kids with Autism, and they don't offer the highest level. So he's doing the 5 year level. When he finishes that, he can either go to a community college type program, OR he can choose to go on to the highest level of high school. But if he continues with high school, he will end up doing 7 years instead of 6, but then he can go to University. If he chooses to do the community college, he can get an associates degree, and then go on to university from there if he wants to. So he can still do university, but it will take longer to get there. But university is also a bit different here. It's really only for the sciences. You don't go to a university to become a teacher, for example. That's a community college type degree. But you would do Engineering at a university. You CAN do engineering at a community college, but it's an associates degree, where going to a University would equate to a masters degree. My husband has the equivalent of a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering.

I don't see my son going to university, really....unless he wants to do something with his math, which he is very good at. But I can see my daughter doing university. I think she'll end up doing something with technology, like designing medical equipment, or apps, or some sort of technology to help people. And for that, she'd need to go to a university to be at the level to really do anything to a high level of quality. My son still thinks he's going to be a youtuber, which I've tried to explain is not a career unless you get really popular. He needs to study something that will actually deliver a paycheck if being a youtuber doesn't pan out.
 
Letteyeti

Letteyeti

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Songbird76 said:
Oh, no I live in the Netherlands. I am American, but I married a Dutchie, so we live about 15 minutes from the German border.

As for college, it's not that it's hard to get into, it's just that you have to have the prerequisites. You can not go to a university unless you have completed the highest level of high school, OR if you took one of the lower levels of high school and then worked your way up. So like...if you take the lower level of high school, when you finish that level, you can move on to the next one, but you have to add 2 years. My son qualified to do the highest level, but he's Autistic and goes to a special school for kids with Autism, and they don't offer the highest level. So he's doing the 5 year level. When he finishes that, he can either go to a community college type program, OR he can choose to go on to the highest level of high school. But if he continues with high school, he will end up doing 7 years instead of 6, but then he can go to University. If he chooses to do the community college, he can get an associates degree, and then go on to university from there if he wants to. So he can still do university, but it will take longer to get there. But university is also a bit different here. It's really only for the sciences. You don't go to a university to become a teacher, for example. That's a community college type degree. But you would do Engineering at a university. You CAN do engineering at a community college, but it's an associates degree, where going to a University would equate to a masters degree. My husband has the equivalent of a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering.

I don't see my son going to university, really....unless he wants to do something with his math, which he is very good at. But I can see my daughter doing university. I think she'll end up doing something with technology, like designing medical equipment, or apps, or some sort of technology to help people. And for that, she'd need to go to a university to be at the level to really do anything to a high level of quality. My son still thinks he's going to be a youtuber, which I've tried to explain is not a career unless you get really popular. He needs to study something that will actually deliver a paycheck if being a youtuber doesn't pan out.
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It still sounds crazy hard compared to what we do here. I mean here you do poor on the standard tests or in high school you can still go to community college and try to get it together there and move onto a University. For me who mostly gets B’s for grades that isn’t the tops, but it isn’t awful. I will probably apply to mostly State schools and a few out of State schools not thinking I will get into those. I also want to at that time of applying have some sort of idea what I’d like to do so I choose a school that has that program. As for the Youtuber thing it looks like a ton of fun, but it is a one in a trillion shot. It is the same as becoming Tik Tok famous. I consider myself a pretty good dancer, but I am not famous on Tik Tok. I can do the same dances as Charli D’ Amelio who is the same age as me and is Tik Tok famous for dancing. It is all about luck and Charli herself even said that.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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John park hopper said:
There have been times I got poison ivy so bad on my hands the skin would blister and crack and bleed, nothing would stop the spreading. The only thing was trip to the doctor and shot of cortisone-- start to clear it up within 2 days. Word to the wise guys especially if you have it on your hands (hasn't blistered yet and you don't know it) it can be transferred to other parts of your body -- if you get my drift (very pain full) learned the hard way
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Yep, both me and my two younger bro’s had it down there too, at least twice...you talk about a nightmare that you can’t wake up from...!!!!!!! :eek::jawdrop:
 

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