The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Figgy1]

 

[donaldtoo]

It is with great sadness I'm letting you know @DisneyDebNJ passed away on June 8th. She was a friend to many on this site, a wife, mother Disney nerd, Jersey girl and the one who renamed me Figgy. She is and will be missed

When I first joined this site in 2012 she posted a lot. Haven’t seen her here in years. So sorry to hear of her passing.

 

[Figgy1]

 

[21stamps]

My kid is in the swimming pool. Jumping off the diving board, t and 6 other boys, rinse and repeat. It looks miserable. I’m wearing a jacket and a towel across my legs, also wearing capri leggings.

Temperature is currently 72 degrees.

 

[Letteyeti]

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Or for me the Coca Cola.

 

[93boomer]

It is with great sadness I'm letting you know @DisneyDebNJ passed away on June 8th. She was a friend to many on this site, a wife, mother Disney nerd, Jersey girl and the one who renamed me Figgy. She is and will be missed

I saw this on IG from a friend too. It is so sad. She was very nice to me when I first joined here. She definitely will be missed

 

[Tuvalu]

It is with great sadness I'm letting you know @DisneyDebNJ passed away on June 8th. She was a friend to many on this site, a wife, mother Disney nerd, Jersey girl and the one who renamed me Figgy. She is and will be missed

Figgy, my heart is breaking. Deb was one of my first WDWMagic friends. We corresponded frequently and had the pleasure of meeting at our beloved Poly back in 2015. She introduced me to the Lapu Lapu.



I lost touch with her when she left this site, as I am not on any other social media. Please PM me with any info you may have, thanks.

 

[brifraz]

It's one of my goals in like. The other is to help people take more trips to Disney. And I should really do a TED talk series on why school teaches kids to hate reading and why PE teaches kids to hate exercise, my other practiced lecture.

Just so long as band and orchestra class doesn't teach kids to hate music!

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Just so long as band and orchestra class doesn't teach kids to hate music!

Nope, nope, you're all good there.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

My kid is in the swimming pool. Jumping off the diving board, t and 6 other boys, rinse and repeat. It looks miserable. I’m wearing a jacket and a towel across my legs, also wearing capri leggings.

Temperature is currently 72 degrees.

B's been in the pool in 55 degree weather. He doesn't do that anymore, but he'll go out in 65-70 degree weather.

 

[Letteyeti]

Night everyone. I wish everyone an awesome week ahead.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Not sure where and when you graduated, but now where I go there are two English classes. One is the grammar and sentence structure based class and the other is Literature. Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior year you have to take both. Senior year you just take the Literature class and it is basically just reading books assigned and writing papers and being graded on those papers for all the things you have learned in all the grammar classes you have taken up to that point.

Nope, not where I went. Sixth grade we had reading and we had English. After that, they moved us onto just English, the reading slot being replaced with foreign language (you start foreign language in seventh grade here, so I actually had six years of Spanish before I got to college). English was mostly literature and composition with some grammar thrown in there. Like I said, my sophomore year English teacher was really, really good about teaching grammar, and then because I took journalism for two years, she taught it there too, so my grammar is excellent.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Can you get..... oh never mind.

Sure, I can grab you some virgin piña coladas. No problem.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Hollywood is getting on the bandwagon in Covid19 prevention. There is discussion that future sex scenes in movies will be CGI enhanced technology.

There was a whole conversation in my house about the CDC recommendation that you wear a mask during sex.

I live with my parents. That was awkward.

 

[Letteyeti]

Nope, not where I went. Sixth grade we had reading and we had English. After that, they moved us onto just English, the reading slot being replaced with foreign language (you start foreign language in seventh grade here, so I actually had six years of Spanish before I got to college). English was mostly literature and composition with some grammar thrown in there. Like I said, my sophomore year English teacher was really, really good about teaching grammar, and then because I took journalism for two years, she taught it there too, so my grammar is excellent.

We also have Foreign Language as well. I do think having class that teaches us the proper way to write and grammar is great. It is also awesome that you had an English teacher that did both within one literature based class.

 

[Letteyeti]

Sure, I can grab you some virgin piña coladas. No problem.

Hey, I’ll take it.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

We only had to have 2 years of PE in high school....I didn't mind my second year. They offered a weight lifting class that year, so I took that...I was actually pretty good at that. You don't have to have hand-eye coordination. We ran for the entire 45 minutes every Wednesday, which I hated, but the rest of the class was actually pretty fun! And you were graded not on how good you were, but how much you improved. As long as the amount you could lift increased over time, you were golden.

In college I took bowling as a PE class....that was great. And I took volleyball for my other credit, but I was terrible at it. I tried so so hard, even stayed after class most days to practice extra. I just never got any better. I am just not an athlete. I can't do things that require aim.

It was so stupid when I was in school. We only had to have one PE credit. But if you were in honors or Gifted science classes, you had four days of PE and one day that was an extra science period for a lab. So they wouldn't give you the full PE credit. It was basically being punished for being smart. I think they've since fixed that. Anyway, you weren't allowed to pick what you took. Nope. You did what the rest of the class did. And let's face it, the asthmatic who hates running hated most of what we did. I was fine with soccer if I could be goalie. I was actually very good at goalie, and I didn't have to run. I liked softball because you only had to run short distances. I didn't mind football for the same reason; you ran and then you got a break. We also had a ping pong unit that I liked because we didn't have to get dressed. Oh, but I hated pretty much everything else. And with my asthma, if it gets below 55 degrees, my lungs don't want to do it. If it's allergy season, my lungs don't want to exercise outside, especially running. But gym teachers for the most part don't get that, so they see that as being lazy.

Oh, and the pacer test that I mentioned to @Letteyeti . It's literally running across the gym to the sound of a beeper until you can't do it anymore. That used to get my asthma going horribly to the point where my allergist finally wrote me a note to get me out of it because I'd end up needing my nebulizer afterward. But I could pass the sit-up test with flying colors, much to the amazement of the PE teachers. One time I was the last one going, and the teacher was just staring at me like she couldn't believe it.

College we only had to take one PE credit, so I chose ice skating. It was fun; I enjoyed it. Indoors, it doesn't bother me to be in the cold; I guess because it's regulated. But it took me years to get over the mental block of hating exercise that PE taught me. Now I'm a very active adult. I go for walks on the weekend, I do cardio on my mini elliptical during the week, but I've figured out I need my exercise to be fairly mindless. I can't put a lot of thought into my movements or what I'm doing, and I need music or conversation or something else to be mentally focused on. I feel like if PE were more tailored to kids who were like me, then maybe it would be better. Or if there were more options like you had with weight training. I probably would have gone for that.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

We also have Foreign Language as well. I do think having class that teaches us the proper way to write and grammar is great. It is also awesome that you had an English teacher that did both within one literature based class.

Yeah, we had seven classes a day. So freshman year it was science, math, US government, foreign language, english, PE, and an elective. Sophomore year it was the same thing, only US government was World History. Then junior year, PE changed to Engineering (which I was lousy at) and then you could drop off the foreign language if you wanted to (I did not). Then senior year you had to take English, at least a semester of economics or AP economics, a semester of health, and it was recommended you take math. I took AP English literature, College Algebra, AP Spanish, AP economics, a semester of screenwriting (that was fun) and a semester of health, Journalism, and chorus. No room for a class purely based on grammar in there, though with journalism, I learned a heck of a lot of grammar. It was useful for knowing how to write in college.

 

[Letteyeti]

It was so stupid when I was in school. We only had to have one PE credit. But if you were in honors or Gifted science classes, you had four days of PE and one day that was an extra science period for a lab. So they wouldn't give you the full PE credit. It was basically being punished for being smart. I think they've since fixed that. Anyway, you weren't allowed to pick what you took. Nope. You did what the rest of the class did. And let's face it, the asthmatic who hates running hated most of what we did. I was fine with soccer if I could be goalie. I was actually very good at goalie, and I didn't have to run. I liked softball because you only had to run short distances. I didn't mind football for the same reason; you ran and then you got a break. We also had a ping pong unit that I liked because we didn't have to get dressed. Oh, but I hated pretty much everything else. And with my asthma, if it gets below 55 degrees, my lungs don't want to do it. If it's allergy season, my lungs don't want to exercise outside, especially running. But gym teachers for the most part don't get that, so they see that as being lazy.

Oh, and the pacer test that I mentioned to @Letteyeti . It's literally running across the gym to the sound of a beeper until you can't do it anymore. That used to get my asthma going horribly to the point where my allergist finally wrote me a note to get me out of it because I'd end up needing my nebulizer afterward. But I could pass the sit-up test with flying colors, much to the amazement of the PE teachers. One time I was the last one going, and the teacher was just staring at me like she couldn't believe it.

College we only had to take one PE credit, so I chose ice skating. It was fun; I enjoyed it. Indoors, it doesn't bother me to be in the cold; I guess because it's regulated. But it took me years to get over the mental block of hating exercise that PE taught me. Now I'm a very active adult. I go for walks on the weekend, I do cardio on my mini elliptical during the week, but I've figured out I need my exercise to be fairly mindless. I can't put a lot of thought into my movements or what I'm doing, and I need music or conversation or something else to be mentally focused on. I feel like if PE were more tailored to kids who were like me, then maybe it would be better. Or if there were more options like you had with weight training. I probably would have gone for that.

@StarWarsGirl that doesn’t make one bit of sense with having to take 4 days of P.E. and not getting a full credit. He we don’t have our elective classes like Art, Drama, Music, or P. E. every day. Which ever electives you are taking they alternate. The core classes we have every day.

I also didn’t mind the sport games where I could stand around when the others ran around. The pacer going from end line to end line in the gym practically made me puke and I do consider myself in good shape.

 

[Letteyeti]

Yeah, we had seven classes a day. So freshman year it was science, math, US government, foreign language, english, PE, and an elective. Sophomore year it was the same thing, only US government was World History. Then junior year, PE changed to Engineering (which I was lousy at) and then you could drop off the foreign language if you wanted to (I did not). Then senior year you had to take English, at least a semester of economics or AP economics, a semester of health, and it was recommended you take math. I took AP English literature, College Algebra, AP Spanish, AP economics, a semester of screenwriting (that was fun) and a semester of health, Journalism, and chorus. No room for a class purely based on grammar in there, though with journalism, I learned a heck of a lot of grammar. It was useful for knowing how to write in college.

We also have 7 classes a day and lunch. My Freshman year was English Grammar, English Literature, Algebra 2, Physical Science, US Government, German 1, P.E./ Choir(alternative days). Sophomore year: English Grammar, English Literature, Geometry, Biology, World History, German 2, P.E/ Choir. This upcoming Junior Year: English Grammar, English Literature, Trigonometry, Chemistry, US History, Health, Drawing/ Choir.