JOKE: SMALL TOWN SCHOOL are different! lol.//7 DAYS of positivity challenge//tired
JOKE from "small town schools are different":
#8. The football coach is also your history teacher and the librarian is also the lunch lady. Teachers at small schools have to wear many hats. Some of those hats are not necessarily supposed to be worn simultaneously, but whatever. lol.
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sunny day in the morning. it was nice and warm last night when i got home at FIVE a.m.! and it was still warm out when i woke up around 11 or 12. real tired though. need more sleep.
n got mad because she got down the wrong information, i never realized that she does that before. she does. it doesn't matter anyway. she gets belligerent if she does something wrong. my guess is because she wants to do it right....or she was raised by an alcoholic or mental person who had a temper that flares for no reason. hmmmm, alanon is a great place for people like that. will just need to find another way to get the info. b and js already knew this and there was a lot of the "knowing" looks going around.
saw my cousins from pensacola. his daughter moved in with her boyfriend. omg! does time fly. she also didn't finish college to move in with him (he already finished). hmmmm. its the second time she left college. before it was to transfer to a different school. hope she will be in school where she will be living. that will be her third college in three years then. the scenic route. it says a lot for her if she can do that though, because its a lot of adapting.
ultimately, she'll have to find one school and bring all the credits together at one or two of the colleges she attended. that is how many people end up with multiple associates or bachelor degrees. whatever works.
the first time she left a college, was because she missed her friends so she switched to a campus within an hour from where everyone in her life lives. however, since most of her friends are actually away at college as well, i think she was just homesick for familiar surroundings and not adjusting.
a lot of people go through stuff like this -- a real lot, especially if they get along well with their families or their boyfriend/girlfriend still lives in that area -- they will stay home for 3 years after high school and go to college locally and work part time locally (if they do this through a county college and get a tech certificate in something as well (all county colleges offer all kinds of tech certificates and a person has got to be a fool not to take advantage of some of them), its actually a smart move.
county college is half the price of a state university and a FRACTION of a private university in usa (in europe allll higher education is free). a tech certificate in ANYTHING will get them decent employment at decent pay for the rest of their time in college and outside of college. or, some will choose a college that is within two hours of where they are from and put off going to their first choice of school - "defer admission". more commonly this is done to work full time for a year, or to take a gap year and travel.
its kind of woosy to stay wherever your people are living and everyone knows it, but i still know a zillion people that have done this.
and then there are those who do NOTHING after highschool. i have never figured those people out -- not even to this day. one girl i knew in junior high school had oppressive parents as well as an asshole for a guidance counsellor. when i read the book class reunion by rona jaffe, one of the characters has an asshole for a guidance counsellor at radcliffe and i thought to myself, this is what she was talking about. so far that has never happened to me, i wouldn't put up with someone like that anyway. they'd be in for a war. lol.
i remember when i got back from studying abroad for a year in europe, ONE of the guy's brothers from the nyc area, was like that -- to him, his mindset, was still around 9th or 10th grade. THAT is scary. or the ones who think college is the same format as elementary school and its like WHAT? what grade did you stop going to school? wow.
the ones who get stuck in bad situations are the ones who don't sign up for college prep in high school AND who don't take "college typing" or "Typing One" in high school seem to be permanently screwed up because of it. how are you going to get DAILY papers typed for each class if you can't type? what are they thinking?
they put themselves on work study, instead of just going to work after a full day of school (and in your teens you DO have the energy to do that) and work skills are something you need to get in you as early as possible. the biggest things i've noticed is that people that didn't work during highschool end up as jerks permanently. your teen years are developmental years, don't screw them up.
saw e today as well. she is behind on paperwork. she says that one out of four of the people drug tested for their office park fails the drug test and 7 out of 10 of the people hired where they are, quit. they are working them too hard. this recession is really messing things up. they want people to do twice the job for half the money and its not possible - not even in this economy.
everyone is posting their challenges on e mails and facebook. the ice bucket one is fun to watch, even though its stupid. the seven days of positivity is sweet and a good idea for people, makes you realize all the things that are good in your life tand urges you to dwell on the good things.
m called about the "guests" at the other house. i haven't checked on them today, i'm still dragging because of this weekend.
#8. The football coach is also your history teacher and the librarian is also the lunch lady. Teachers at small schools have to wear many hats. Some of those hats are not necessarily supposed to be worn simultaneously, but whatever. lol.
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sunny day in the morning. it was nice and warm last night when i got home at FIVE a.m.! and it was still warm out when i woke up around 11 or 12. real tired though. need more sleep.
n got mad because she got down the wrong information, i never realized that she does that before. she does. it doesn't matter anyway. she gets belligerent if she does something wrong. my guess is because she wants to do it right....or she was raised by an alcoholic or mental person who had a temper that flares for no reason. hmmmm, alanon is a great place for people like that. will just need to find another way to get the info. b and js already knew this and there was a lot of the "knowing" looks going around.
saw my cousins from pensacola. his daughter moved in with her boyfriend. omg! does time fly. she also didn't finish college to move in with him (he already finished). hmmmm. its the second time she left college. before it was to transfer to a different school. hope she will be in school where she will be living. that will be her third college in three years then. the scenic route. it says a lot for her if she can do that though, because its a lot of adapting.
ultimately, she'll have to find one school and bring all the credits together at one or two of the colleges she attended. that is how many people end up with multiple associates or bachelor degrees. whatever works.
the first time she left a college, was because she missed her friends so she switched to a campus within an hour from where everyone in her life lives. however, since most of her friends are actually away at college as well, i think she was just homesick for familiar surroundings and not adjusting.
a lot of people go through stuff like this -- a real lot, especially if they get along well with their families or their boyfriend/girlfriend still lives in that area -- they will stay home for 3 years after high school and go to college locally and work part time locally (if they do this through a county college and get a tech certificate in something as well (all county colleges offer all kinds of tech certificates and a person has got to be a fool not to take advantage of some of them), its actually a smart move.
county college is half the price of a state university and a FRACTION of a private university in usa (in europe allll higher education is free). a tech certificate in ANYTHING will get them decent employment at decent pay for the rest of their time in college and outside of college. or, some will choose a college that is within two hours of where they are from and put off going to their first choice of school - "defer admission". more commonly this is done to work full time for a year, or to take a gap year and travel.
its kind of woosy to stay wherever your people are living and everyone knows it, but i still know a zillion people that have done this.
and then there are those who do NOTHING after highschool. i have never figured those people out -- not even to this day. one girl i knew in junior high school had oppressive parents as well as an asshole for a guidance counsellor. when i read the book class reunion by rona jaffe, one of the characters has an asshole for a guidance counsellor at radcliffe and i thought to myself, this is what she was talking about. so far that has never happened to me, i wouldn't put up with someone like that anyway. they'd be in for a war. lol.
i remember when i got back from studying abroad for a year in europe, ONE of the guy's brothers from the nyc area, was like that -- to him, his mindset, was still around 9th or 10th grade. THAT is scary. or the ones who think college is the same format as elementary school and its like WHAT? what grade did you stop going to school? wow.
the ones who get stuck in bad situations are the ones who don't sign up for college prep in high school AND who don't take "college typing" or "Typing One" in high school seem to be permanently screwed up because of it. how are you going to get DAILY papers typed for each class if you can't type? what are they thinking?
they put themselves on work study, instead of just going to work after a full day of school (and in your teens you DO have the energy to do that) and work skills are something you need to get in you as early as possible. the biggest things i've noticed is that people that didn't work during highschool end up as jerks permanently. your teen years are developmental years, don't screw them up.
saw e today as well. she is behind on paperwork. she says that one out of four of the people drug tested for their office park fails the drug test and 7 out of 10 of the people hired where they are, quit. they are working them too hard. this recession is really messing things up. they want people to do twice the job for half the money and its not possible - not even in this economy.
everyone is posting their challenges on e mails and facebook. the ice bucket one is fun to watch, even though its stupid. the seven days of positivity is sweet and a good idea for people, makes you realize all the things that are good in your life tand urges you to dwell on the good things.
m called about the "guests" at the other house. i haven't checked on them today, i'm still dragging because of this weekend.
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*hugs* Sounds like your daughter is having commitment issues. I met Geo in my junior year of college (at the end of the semester) and never once did I think about leaving school for him. I did my senior year and then left to be with him. but I got my diploma!
My goddaughter washed out of college after just one semester because going far away was just a bad idea for her. So, she\'s now paying off the student loans, working hard, getting a car, and then maybe trying the community college route. I think she\'ll do much better that way. Personally, I couldn\'t wait to get away from home, so going to college was the perfect thing for me. I grew up a lot in those four years. It\'s different for everyone, I guess! *HUGS*