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moira___
February 7th, 2006, 08:24 PM
hahahaha :) ...crap! ive just realised that i posted in th alison croggon section and thats why youve all read th books...god i feel stupid :p so yeah..sorry about that
Gemini
February 7th, 2006, 09:43 PM
have jus finished school...YES!!!! its soooooooooooo good!!! and at th moment im doing nothing but sitting around th house reading (loving it except for th fact that im in desperate need of some good new books)
Welcome Moira, don't worry, i think a few others have made the same mistake, we don't mind :D.
And i finished school last year as well and am currently bumming around the house all day too :D
StarLily
February 7th, 2006, 10:13 PM
lucky! wait how does the school thing go in australia?
Bridie
February 8th, 2006, 12:29 PM
welcome moria :) easy mistake to make i guess :P hey i have a good book to rec you- the gift and the riddle by alison croggon. you dont get much better then them. i wish i could sit around doing nothing but read... :(
peacelily
February 8th, 2006, 02:28 PM
hi moria! i'm as confused as starlily...how does the australian school system work?
Silver Serpent
February 8th, 2006, 02:28 PM
Me too...all i get to do all day is trudge rnd school wondering why the hell our tech & art teachers seem 2 be so obsessed by logos this year, and what the point of algabraic scatter diagrams and graphs are in the national curricular is. I mean- we had a full 55mins just on semi colons yesterday. we covered thse in...ermm...year 3!!grrrr.sozzy...i'm a teensy bit annoyed. Hiya moira!netball can NEVER replace basketball/rounders/cricket/hockey<3
. :D :p :cool:
peacelily
February 8th, 2006, 02:31 PM
neither netball or basketball can replace hockey! Hockey rules!!
Silver Serpent
February 8th, 2006, 02:34 PM
Oh YESS! A HOCKCKEY FAN!!!
Do u play?
what position!?
:D
peacelily
February 8th, 2006, 02:37 PM
I play! but i dont really have a position, i got taught both defence and attack so i love it all! :D woohoo! hockey is the best!
moira___
February 8th, 2006, 07:05 PM
lucky! wait how does the school thing go in australia?
theres 13 years...but only 11 are compulsory, the first year is called kindergarten and basically u do nothing but listen to stories learn th names of colours and how to write ur own name (this was my fav year) then the rest are years 1 - 12 when you finish yr 6 you move from primary school to high school and in high school you can leave after u finish year 10 but if u do this then u generally cant get into university/college/whatevr u want to call it its more for people who have appenticeships i.e. who want to become builders/plumbers/hairdressers/beauty therapists etc.
then u go on and do yrs 11 and 12 which are th hardest most annoying years...but yes i did them...and at the end theres a hell of a lot of exams about stupid stuff which doesnt count for anything in th real world (i wrote a 18 page english essay on 'imaginative journeys') you get a certificate saying youve sucessfully completed your HSC(higher school certificate) and if u applied for it u also get a uai which is a score/ranking/some random number out of 100 and this is used to get into university. courses like law and medicine have uai's of like 99.9 or some ridiculous number and th course that im doin (advanced science) was 96.4 and arts degrees are generally between 70/80
ANYWAY!!!!! :p i think thats enough about the terrible system which has taken 12 years of my life...
P.S. bridie im already tracking down the gift an th riddle, i should get them tomo or th next day...excellent!
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