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Have some family fun before summer's done - Cleveland Plain Dealer

Susan Glaser, The Plain Dealer The sun is setting on another summer â so get out there and enjoy the final weeks of the season. These girls are playing in Lake Erieâ s surf on Beach 6, one of 11 at ...

Wander Minnesota: Last Gasps Of Summer Vacation - WCCO

Believe it or not, we're only a couple of weeks from Labor Day weekend. Some students will be heading back to school before then, and everyone else the day after Labor Day. It's not too late to cram some fun into your ...

My summer vacation - AndersonValleyPost.com

When Pacheco School teacher Vickie Drysdale asks her sixth-grade students to report on their summer vacations, the story that Jeanney Keo, 10, of Redding tells may prove to be the most fascinating. Jeanney, who ...

SavingAngel.com: Want to save $1,200 this school year? Pack a lunch! - MLive.com

Parents have many reasons for choosing hot or cold lunches for their children. Among the reasons for choosing hot lunch are convenience, satisfaction with their children's school lunch program, and the ...

Community Schools - Longmont Daily Times-Call

Why did you come to the St. Vrain Valley School District? This is an outstanding school district to work for, have your own children attend and is part of a really great community. What did you do on your summer vacation ...

If it's August, it's prime time for school uniforms - Republic

Michael Arking is the president of French Toast, a large supplier of school uniforms in Dayton, New Jersey, where he is shown on July 22, 2010. (Don Smith/The Record/MCT) Michael Arking is the president of ...

Family travel five: Still time for travel before summer slips away - Fresno Bee

Visit Canada for family adventure outdoors and views of the natural world. Here are five places to explore. 1. Klondike gold rush route, the Yukon. Relive one of the most colorful eras in Canadian history when ...

Norwalk man gets 28 months for teaching girl, 9, to French kiss - Stamford Advocate

STAMFORD -- As his girlfriend wept, a Norwalk man who taught the woman's 9-year-old daughter to French kiss and put his hands down her pants during a 2007 summer vacation from her Arizona home was sentenced to two years ...

Executive's job is making school uniforms cool - NorthJersey.com

When school lets out for the summer in June, the busiest time of the year for the school uniform business begins. The Dayton warehouse and offices of the French Toast school uniform brand buzz with activity from June ...

Program helps school migrant workers' children - Atlantic City Press

While most students spent their vacations at camp or away on trips, Jacqueson Jean-Baptiste said he spent the summer of 2008 picking fruit in the Hammonton blueberry fields. Jacqueson, whose parents also ...

Resolved Question: Am I really all that unusual for a 13 year old girl?

-I hate shopping, I prefer making my own clothing. -I love circuit building, electronics, inventing things, etc -I love hiking, climbing trees, and don't mind if I get dirty -When once asked what type of books I usually read, I replied, "Pari-Apocalyptic science fiction" -Some of my favorite authors are Oliver Sacks, Stephen King, and Malcolm Gladwell -I am facinated by the world of medicine and physicians. I have a huge list of disases and syndromes in my head. I cna rattle them off, one by one, and then give a detailed explaination of the typical manifestation, diagnosis, and treatment. -my favorite tv shows (I don't watch TV that often, though) are on Discovery Channel, Discovery Health, or the History Channel. -I went to Physics camp this summer. I wanted to go. I was not forced by my parents. -My choice professions as an adult would be a Geneticist, Neurologist, or Physicist. -I love to draw. (you should see my school notebooks.) But not flowers or kittens or ponies. I daw abstract geometric shapes, organs, and diagrams. (I am completely aware how weird that sounds) - I love math and science. -I do logic puzzles for fun, even making the, myself. -I love words. Dysdiadocokinesia. see how fun that is to say. (that means the inability to perform a repeated, fast paced activity that involves both hands, e.g. clapping) -my favorite music is classical (I play the viola andpiano), or bands like the Fleet Foxes, Frightened Rabbit, The Shins, etc The reason I asked this was because I really have no friends. People call me a freak or weirdo just because I would rather read than gossip about "Like OMG, did you like, see Jenny's boots? Like, OMGEEEEE! THEY ARE SO UGGGGGGLAYYYYYYYY" I used to have friends, but let's just say I had these people decide that I wasn't cool enough. It is horrid to not have friends, do yo know that? My god, it is SUMMER VACATION and I am home alone watching Mystery Diagnosis with my cat! I must admit, I can sometimes be snarky or sarcastic, but that is becuse I am sick of the way people treat me at school. For example,a girl in my French class saw my "I like to think outside the quadrilateral parallelogram" shirt, and turned to her friend, pointed at my shirt, and said "What the F**k? Weirdo." People think of me as this genius kid who is rather weird. I don't want to be called a genius! I don't know what my IQ is, but I do not consider myself a genius. Just at the higher end of the bell curve, perhaps. Maybe that's why I have no friends? Even teachers hate me. See, I am always so bored in class that I always read under my desk.I know I shouldn't but when I have practically a 98-100in every class, and got a 96-100 on every final exam,I don't know what the big deal is. I never usually raise my hand in class to ask questions, but when I do, I ask a question that, aparently, is way to high level for my teachers to answer. So, what can I do? I don't want to change myself. I like who I am. I just wish I had some friends. Am I really all that weird? Do youknow girls like me who are 13 or 14ish? PS sorry for spelling errors. I am a horrid speller and typer. more

Resolved Question: Do you think I am extrordinarily eccentric for a 13 year old girl?

Resolved Question: I don't want to be disrepectful to my grandma in INDIA,but why can't she be more flexible about hair stuff ?

ok, my parents and I (i'm 14) are originally from India,but we live in US ,NY City. I really like everything Indian,culture,heritage,traditions,etc..… also sometimes dress in salwaar kaameez ,but most of the time I normally dress as any American teenager,jeans,t-shirts,whatever cool stuff.... Every summer vacation my parents send my to stay in India with my grandparents,for like a couple of months. That's fine with me,the problem is that my grandmother (used to be school teacher in a village) is super conservative and traditional ,so she always makes me wear only Indian clothing while I am there living with them,all the time that is salwaar kameez !! And also even worse about HAIR, my hair is typical Indian, very thick,butt-length (no bangs) and I usually wear it back home in a single braid or a french braid,or sometimes a low ponytail (even though mom is not too happy about loose hair) .But my grandmother keeps saying my hair should be styled in traditional Indian plaits,like she does to her nieces, I mean she makes 2 braids ,and then she braids long ribbons and then braids are folded up like in the pics below : http://www.tedbeck.net/Indiawebpages/resize/madurai/schoolgirls.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/maemae/179584442/sizes/o/ I MEAN IT 'S CUTE STYLE BUT I HATE TO HAVE TO WEAR IT EVERY SINGLE DAY !!! IT'S LIKE SHE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO TO DIFFERENT STYLES BUT ONLY THIS ONE...EVERY MORNING SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY BECAUSE SHE COMES TO MY ROOM AND DOES MY HAIR,LIKE ,SHE BRAIDS SUPER TIGHT,ETC.....I DON'T KNOW HOW TO APPROACH HER ABOUT THIS ISSUE,AS SHE IS VERY STUBBORN AND I WOULD HATE TO SEE HER UPSET WITH ME....ANY IDEAS ? more

Resolved Question: vacation or language school in japan?

i just cam back from vacation and i went with globus to china (they direct tours in major cities of china with a group of people ..) and i had a blast and i was trying to decide whether i should go with that again for next summer except go to japan with globus or go to a language school for around a month or so ... i am going to be a sophomore in high school when school starts this year and i plan on going that summer ... ( i am currently learning french and hate it and i think language school might be good to put on a college application .. what do y'all think?.. thankso and i wanted to study abroad for a semester or year in japan when i go to collegethere are many language schools that are in japan that allow 15 years up to study in japan (genkiJACS, amerispan, languageabrige(sp) .... etc.. more

Resolved Question: What are my chances of getting into Ivy League schools?

Hi, I am looking at many Ivy League schools, such as Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and Yale. I am also looking at Georgetown, Stanford, Washington University, University of Chicago, and some others. What are my chances of getting into these top schools based on my resume? ACT- 35 Composite SAT 2- 800 on Math 2, 800 on Chemistry, 780 on Biology AP test scores- 5 on Language and Composition, 5 on Biology, 5 on Chemistry GPA- 4.0 unweighted 9 Total AP Classes with 6 of them in senior year Class rank: #1 (But my transcript only shows "top ten percent") Awards: English Department Book Award, Columbia Book Award, Women in Engineering Award (I laughed when I won this) Clubs/Activities: Class treasurer freshman and sophomore year, vice president junior year, hopefully president senior year, vice president of National Honors Society, member of French Honors Society, member of Global Voice, founder of a youth volunteer organization in my school, organize freshman orientation annually, I run cross country and track, and I played baseball freshman year Outside of school: I started my own "business" repairing iPods, Macbooks, etc. for people I know and also through eBay, I am a member of the Youth Volunteer Corps, I spent a few days this summer painting a new logo on a wall in my school, and I am a volunteer counselor for vacation bible school. Also, there is a chance that I will be learning sign language so I can help out at a deaf and blind center with a friend of mine. Please let me know what you think my chances are and areas in which I can improve. Thanks! more

Resolved Question: How to move to Quebec?

"hi i'm taking a year off after high school, just to work, but I live in Michigan and the job market fuckin' blows. so i'm moving to Quebec, and that's where you come in! i want to work entry-level in a place where i'm semi-fluent in the language, but only for a year then i move back, ok, and you'll give me the permission to do it." Visa denied. -- my plan was to gain real life experience before immersing myself in university life. the typical gap year entails something extraordinary like volunteer work abroad, living in a commune, and other activities that seem to me more like vacations. i had planned to stay in Michigan, find an apartment, and just work. learn to pay bills, budget my earnings, etc., but i've been out of school for a month and haven't found a job. i started thinking about moving "if i'm going to start fresh, why not start in a fresh place?" --not necessarily to Quebec, but just far enough from my parents that i'd be forced to take care of myself. (i'm not incompetent; i've lived on my own before, but that was under different circumstances.) --- Quebec would be ideal because i could find a "real" place, culturally identical to Michigan. (i don't want it to be a vacation.) the major difference would be the language, which would be really great because i've never had the opportunity to speak French outside my 5 years of classes. beyond that, i'm still just surviving like everyone else. not special. that's what i want. so my question is, how do i move? i have no work experience, and about $1k saved up. i could work the summer then quit, but how good would that look on a resume? is moving to Canada plausible or should i stay? would i need a Visa? is it worth the trouble? then what, do i move first, or do i find an apartment first, or a job first? i know it's been done before, but how? more

Resolved Question: How to say this short paragraph in French please? (natives only please)?

because I could do nothing. I had to stay in bed and watch TV. My friends were out having fun and going to parties, celebrating the start of summer. I missed my best friend's birthday party last Wednesday. I couldn't give her her present until today. Most of all, I missed being able to go out in the sun. Thankfully, my leg is completely healed now! I am looking forward to going out every night now that there is no school. I get to go on vacation to America in two weeks! more

Resolved Question: How do you say these phrases in French?

I'm preparing for my French exams next week! I'm working on constructing my phrases but I just can't seem to put these ones right. So any help would be appreciated! I like watching comedy films because I like to laugh. It's my last year of school, so this summer I'll be busy with university applications and test preparation. I hope to go somewhere modern and fun on my next vacation where I can do a lot of shopping. I live in a small flat. My room is tiny and I can barely breathe in it. Fortunately, I'm moving this summer so I'll have a bigger bedroom and more space for my things. more

Voting Question: How long would it me to become fluent in French?

Bonjour ou bonsoir! Depending on where you are right now. Haha. :) I'm 13, and I want to become fluent in French. Right now I'm taking the summer classes in Alliance Français de Manille, which meets every Saturday from 12:30 - 3. Aside from this, I asked my parents if I could continue my lessons and they said it was alright. When school starts (it's currently summer vacation here), I'll most likely have my lessons every Saturday, for maybe around 3 or 4 hours, and I'll have a private tutor session every Tuesday and Thursday after school. At this rate, how long would it take until I become fluent in French? I live in Makati, which is obviously not a French-speaking community (unfortunately for me). Thanks so much for your answers! I'm sorry it's so long. :) more

Voting Question: T H I S or T H A T?

Choose one! Copy & paste this to make it easier : ] Vanilla or Chocolate Purple or Green Chinese or Mexican food Hot or Cold Coffee or Hot Chocolate Blonde or Brunette Sugar or Salt Fries or Hamburger Vacation to Europe or Caribbean PC or Mac Vista or XP Veggies or Fruits Cake or Icecream Spicy or Mild Music or Tv Dogs or Cats School or Home school Beef or Chicken Sweet or Sour Shorts or Pants Asleep or Awake Hug or Kiss Shoes or Clothing House or Condo Sea or Ocean Pulp or No Pulp 7up or Sprite Strawberry or Blueberry Scary or Comedy Noise or Silence Burger King or McDonald's Apples or Bananas Winter or Summer Spring or Fall Halloween or Christmas Scream or Cry Outside or Inside Rain or Snow Sun or Moon Tattoos or Piercings Baked or Mashed Potaoes Motel or Hotel Cars or Buses Trains of Planes Forks or Spoons Family Guy or Simpsons Money or Love Nachos or French Fries Blue or Green Eyes Pen or Pencil Beach or Pool Dolphins or Whales Bath or Shower more

Resolved Question: Some More Jokes!!.................?

Summer vacation was over and Bush returned back to school. Only two days later his teacher phoned his grand mother to tell her that he was misbehaving. "Wait a minute," she said. "I had my grandson with me for three months and I never called you once when he misbehaved!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Physics Teacher: "Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head and he discovered gravity. Isn't that wonderful?" Student: "Yes sir, if he had been sitting in class looking at books like us, he wouldn't have discovered anything." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A little girl came home from school and said to her mother, "Mommy, today in school I was punished for something that I didn't do." The mother exclaimed, "But that's terrible! I'm going to have a talk with your teacher about this ... by the way, what was it that you didn't do?" The little girl replied, "My homework." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: "Take only ONE. God is watching." Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note, "Take all you want. God is watching the apples." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Susie's husband had been slipping in and out of a coma for several months. Things looked grim, but she was by his bedside every single day. One day as he slipped back into consciousness, he motioned for her to come close to him. She pulled the chair close to the bed and leaned her ear close to be able to hear him. "You know" he whispered, his eyes filling with tears, "you have been with me through all the bad times. When I got fired, you stuck right beside me. When my business went under, there you were. When we lost the house, you were there. When I got shot, you stuck with me. When my health started failing, you were still by my side. "And you know what?" "What, dear?" she asked gently, smiling to herself. "I think you're bad luck." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband. Suddenly, her husband burst into the kitchen. "Careful," he said, "CAREFUL!" "Put in some more butter! Oh my GOD! You're cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW! We need more butter. Oh my GOD! WHERE are we going to get MORE BUTTER?" "They're going to STICK! Careful ... CAREFUL! I said be CAREFUL! You NEVER listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them! Hurry up! Are you CRAZY? Have you LOST your mind?" "Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. USE THE SALT! THE SALT!" The wife stared at him. "What in the world is wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?" The husband calmly replied, "I wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did you hear about HTE new French tank? Yeah, It has 14 gears. 13 go in reverse, and one goes forward, incase the enemy attacks from behind. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An old man lived alone in Ireland. He wanted to dig his potato garden, but it was very hard work.His only son, who would have helped him, was in prison for bank robbery. The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his predicament.Shortly, he received this reply, "For HEAVEN 'S SAKE Dad, don 't dig up that garden, that 's where I buried the Money! "At 4 A.M. the next morning, a dozen policemen showed up and dug up the entire garden, without finding any money.Confused, the old man wrote another note to his son telling him what happened, and asking him what to do next.His son 's reply was: "Now plant your potatoes, Dad. It 's the best I could do from here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ more

Resolved Question: I need a translation from english to french?

Im doing a project about past, present and future. I am looking for someone to translate the fallowing paragraphs with the correct verbs and tenses, as well as the irregulars. We all know translation websites do not always do it correctly so please dont copy and paste into one of those. Thank you very much and here is what i need done. Past Hello, my name is Jim. I was born September 10 1994. When i was young i liked to play sports. I played basketball baseball soccer and football. Also i liked to go fishing a lot. My family and i would always go on vacation to Maine in the summer. I walked on the beach and played wiffleball (baseball). I attended Burton Center School and i got good grades. Present Now i attend Burton High School and i play soccer, basketball and baseball. I go out with my friends a lot now and i can drive. My day starts at 7 a.m. and ends at 11 p.m. I love sports and I like sleeping. I play basketball all year round because it is my favorite sport. I would like to play basketball in college and study biology. When i get older i would also like to have my own house and cars, as well as a good job. I want to have a wife and children as well. This weekend i will go out with my friends and play basketball. more

Resolved Question: Do you think I could get into Columbia University?

I'm currently a Junior in high school, and so I've started to think about colleges, etc, and even though I haven't even visited it yet I feel like Columbia might be the best school for me. So what I'm wondering, is do you think that I would have a chance of getting in / what should I do to improve my chances? I currently have a 4.0 GPA unweighted, probably about 4.5-4.6 weighted. For all of high school I've taken all honors for my core classes (math, science, english, and social studies), and this year I'm taking two AP's, AP Calc AB and AP US History. Next year I'll be taking 4. (AP Statistics, AP French, AP Government and Politics, and AP Biology). I also took the PSAT's and got a 206, which is approximately a 2060 on the SAT's. I'm taking the actual SAT's in a couple of weeks and hope that I will actually do better on them. List of extracurriculars/ volunteer work: Several Dance classes a week Recreational basketball program Key Club (9th grade) Writer's Circle (11th grade) March of Dimes Walk (7th grade-present) Teaching a religion class (8th grade-present) Volunteered at Vacation Bible Camp (and will again this summer) Went on a mission trip (+ again this summer) Also apparently the person who lives across the street from my grandparent's beach house is a professor at Columbia, if that would help at all? So what do you think? more

Resolved Question: Summer jobs in Montreal?

Hey myself and my friend are going to travel to Montreal and live there this summer and want to work. I have experience as a waitress/bartender,an assistant manager/secretary of a small factory and in childcare.My friend has experience in retail,watering and childcare.We also have excellent references.We are both 20 and are very friendly. However we have limited french.Its been about two years since we studied it in secondary school since moving to college.I'd have a general geist of a what someone was saying to me if they didn't speak to fast but i wouldn't be able to converse well with them at all. Is it possible to get work with our experience in a bar/restaurant/hotel for the summer where our lack of french wouldn't be an issue? Also could you recommend any specific businesses eg hotels,bars etc. we could send our CVs to now for summer work? Or alternatively know anyone who'd like an irish au pair for the summer in Montreal or has a business and will be hiring? We are in the process of obtaining visas for a working vacation so permits won't be a problem. more

Resolved Question: What should i do this summer?

my mom works for the airlines, so my family can fly for free and usually over the summer we go on a bunch of huge vacations just cause they cost almost nothing. but the truth is, i've gotten so sick of my family that i don't think i can bear another vacation with them. my mom says i can go to camp this summer, but only if it's educational. here are my options: 1. i could go to alaska with my family. on a cruise! that would be awesome, but as i said i'm sick of my family. i've never been to camp before, but i've been to alaska before. but still, a cruise. . . 2. i could do a french immersion program all summer. i have a few friends who've done these, and it got them totally fluent in french. plus they said it was the most fun they've ever had. if i do become fluent in French, i can stop taking it in school, which means that i could take spanish instead which is way easier, especially if you're already fluent in a romantic language. 3. i could go to debate camp. a lot of kids on my debate team say that debate camp is amazingly fun, and that the people there are awesome. if i don't go to debate camp, i'll probably debate against kids who have next year and end up loosing a lot. plus i love debate cause i love arguing. what's your opinion? and don't tell me that it's my choice, because i know it is in the end, i just want to hear your opinion. more

Resolved Question: A Baby Name Story 2......by request?

You and your best friend were listening to your favorite radio station when you heard the announcer say be the 4th caller and you will win an all expense paid trip for two to Paris, France to see your favorite musician live in concert. YOU WON!!! You and your best friend didn't waist any time packing. Before you knew it you were in Paris at one of the most prestigious hotels in the city with a direct view of the Eiffel tower. You spent 4 glorious nights and five splendid days. While in Paris you and your friend met some handsome Parisian men who showed you around and showed you some other things too. Nine months later you give birth to a baby girl. What do you name her? Seven years later your little girl is in second grade. She travels to Paris in the summer to visit with her dad. You are now married and happy with your partner. Your partner cares for your daughter like his/her own child. While your daughter was visiting with her dad over summer break you conceived. The pregnancy was grueling and you craved celery, bananas, and meatballs together. On December 7th you deliver a healthy, bouncing, baby boy. He looks a lot like your partner what do you name him? Your family is complete you have a girl and a boy a wonderful partner. Your daughter is 11 your son is four. It's mid April and you decided to take a family vacation to Disney World. You all had fun seeing the sites. While there you and your partner conceived. This pregnancy was easy aside from the horrible morning sickness and heartburn from the spicy food you craved. On December 25th at 1:00am you gave birth to a baby girl who looks just like you. What do you name her? Your house is full of love now your oldest daughter is 16 and can speak fluent English and French, your son is 9 and likes playing hockey, and your youngest is 5 and is the most popular girl in kindergarten. You and your partner have your hands full with taking the kids to practice meets, friends houses, sleepover parties, birthday parties, dance recitals, school recitals, doctor appointments, dentist appointments, etc that you barley have any "one on one" time. For your anniversary your best friend decides to care for your children over night while you and your partner go out on the town and stay at a fancy hotel. You conceived. The doctor's worry because of your age that this pregnancy could become disastrous and there may be minor complications with the baby. You receive a terrifying phone call four months into the pregnancy from the doctor. The doctor states that he detected an irregular heartbeat and needs you to come in right away for observation. After being poked and prodded and several tests later the news is broken to you. Good thing you were already laying down. We have discovered that you are pregnant with triplets the doctor confirms as you and your partners mouths hit the floor. On December 28 you give birth to two boys and one girl. The oldest boy looks like your dad, the second boy looks like your partner's mom, and the girl is a perfect image of your mom. more

Voting Question: Friend problems?? What sould i do?

I am 13 and resently changed schools. Last summer I babysat, went to a long summer camp, had a french exchange student, went to a week and a half family reunion, went on a family vacation, and then my summer was cut short by a week on going to a new school that started early. At the end of the summer my friend texted me and said that she was mad at me and i still dont know why. I think ots becouse that I didnt do much with her last summer with everything else I did. She is having a hard time and I should have made sure I did more stuff with her. Im trying to tell her this but she wont reply to my texts and whenever she sees me with one of her friends she gets mad at that friend. How can I make up with her?? more

Resolved Question: Is there anybody out there who can help me with my Russian essay?

I have to write 170 words on the differences between the English and Russian education systems.I've found a very good website simply explaining Russian education, but I need some help translating it into Russian - i've always loathed online translators! I know theres a lot here, but even the odd sentence would be a great help! Classroom work often means reciting and being tested in a written form or orally by the teacher and sometimes evaluated by the teacher in front of the class. Criticism by the teacher in front of the class is frequent and accepted. Russian children go to school at the age between 6 and 7. They attend school for 10 years and then finish it at 16 (or17). If one does not perform properly during the acadenic year and one's grades are below satisfactory, he or she can be forced to study the failed year again ('to be left for the second year' as it is said here in Russia). They usually spend all the ten years in one buildingas all the three schools are in the same building. School years are divided into 3 sub-schools: primary, secondary and high. Primary is 4 years, secondary is 5 and high is 2. School starts on September 1 and remains in session till the end of May, with June being the month of exams. The school year is comprised of 4 terms with vacations in between: one week in November, two weeks in January, one week in the end of March and almost 3 months in summer (except for the time when students are busy with their exams). Some subjects are a must, some are optional. This is list of the normal classes tought at Russian schools: * Russian Literature * Russian Langauge * Mathematics * Algebra and Geometry (mostly studied in senior classes), * Physics * Chemistry * Russian History * World History * Geography * Biology * Foreign Languages (English, German, French, or Spanish), usually one at a time * Physical Educaion * Cooking, Arts and Crafts (for girls) * Manual Work (for boys) * Art of Drawing * Music * Astronomy Some scools may devote more attention to certain subjects. Then it is a Spanish, Literature or Math school, whatever the area of the major school interest is. The normal class size is 20-30 students.The students are together from the 1st till the last grade. The primary school pupils have one teacher for all the subjects tought (reading, writing, mathematics etc). As so children do not have to adjust to every new teacher of a differnt subject. The school day normally starts at 8 o'clock in morning and finishes at 1 or 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Students come to school 5 days a week, some study on Saturdays. The period lasts 40-45 minutes with a 5 or 15 minute break in between. Students have four classes a day in the primary school, five or six in the secondary, six or seven if it is the senior high school. Students are normally graded on the scale from 2 to 5 , with "5" being the top grade. Each student has his or her personal book of records of academic achievments, or the "diary" (the word, a lot of students and teachers would call it), where the teacher would record the grades for the student after a test or an oral report. more

Resolved Question: Can you help me checking my speech?

My life...is this good enough? I need your help to check the mistakes I have. I'm in elementary level. Thanks for your help. I graduated from University in 2006. I am AN accountant. I work at Medicine University in the administration section and I started the university until now. In my school and university I was always a good student with good califications. I still continue my studies, because is very important for me. I am study English and Postgraduate in auditori in the University. In my work I attend many people very good so they can feel very comfortable. I work from Monday until Friday at 07 am and 2 pm. Every Monday I am travel at 3 pm to Cielo's city, because I teaching accounted in the University, I return at 12 pm; on Tuesday and Thursday I study English in the BBY school at 6pm at 8 pm; Wednesday I teaching in the University in my city at 6:30 pm at 9:15 pm. Friday in the night and Saturday in the morning I am study in my University National of East Postgraduate. In the week I have work and study. In the Saturday afternoon I sleep because very tired, in the night I am going out diner with my family or my boyfriends, or my friends, or go to the Party depending on the situation. In Sunday I like to cook in my home with my parents and I am go to the cinema. In my free time I like practices football with my friends, special in the sprint and summer. I love go Hairdresser's shop in my free time too. I traveled for many countries when I was teenager, I visit USA and Mexico in 1997 because my birthday, Chile in 1998 with classmate the school, Italy in 2000 I visit the Papa Juan Pablo II, Germany, French, Belgium and Bruxelas in 2005 I visit the Papa Benedict XVI. Frequency in vacation in summer I am go to Brazil with my family. It was very special for me to know these countries; because it is very important to know different cultures and people. It was the better thing that I spend in my life, thanks my parents. Now I am happy because I have a baby. My boyfriend is happy too. I am thinking married and form a good family. In the future, I would like some day to live in USA, because I like so much, and traveling around the world visit many countries with my family. Thanks for listen my life… more

Resolved Question: My parents are WAY too strict!?

Okay so, I'm a thirteen year old girl my parents and I moved from Russia when I was 7. Anyway, i'm going into eight grade this year and my parents don't let me do anything: I was hanging out with my BFF yesterday, (she lives 8 blocks away from my house, and we live in a small neighborhood where there are rarely any crimes, and her parents are best friends with my parents, and her parents are SUPER strict just like mine) so anyway while we were playing frisbee in the park next to her house, she wanted me to sleep over (we never had a sleep over together and we've known each other for 4 years, our parents introduced us) so she asks her mom and she says okay. I ask my mom and she says no. This is the conversation: Me: Hey mom, can i maybe sleep over Alex's house (she's a girl) Mom; NO NO NO! Me: Why not, we don't have anything in the morning, and her mom says it's okay I promise to listen and do eve-- Mom: NO! No sleepovers, you have enough fun! What's the point of a sleep over anyway? They are stupid and worthless. What ere you gonna do anyway? Me: Mom, please, we never had one, we were hoping to watch a movie, her parents are gonna be home, and I promise to call, and--- Mom: NO WAY! You can watch a movie now or next week, but no sleep overs! Plus you have your tutoring class tomorrow! Me: But why my tutoring class is at 4:30 PM and-- Mom: You didn't do any chores or your tutor hw! I said NO. End of conversation. (I finished my chores and did my hw 2 DAYS AGO!) Me: But I finished my-- Mom: I SAID NO!!! Me: *sigh* Okay. * I did not use any sarcasm during the conversation. This is really weird, I've had sleep overs with other friends, those who live like an hour away by car, and even on school nights! And with friends whose parents she barely knows. But she never lets me have a sleepover with Alex. Alex's parents are also super strict and never let her ever have a sleepover, they will only let me sleepover because our parents are close friends. Alex is 13, she is a goody-goody two shoes kind of girl who would never do anything out of line (just like me, our parents would kill us if we snuck out, or did something against the "rules"). She is trustworthy, she lives 15 min away from my house (by foot) and her parents are gonna be home during the night. And we hang out all the time around town when our parents are away (with permission of course). Here's another thing: My parents are obsessed with grades. Both parents when to some fancy shmansy university in Russia and they brought me here and it is so horrible. - I'm not allowed to get any grade lower than a A- (once I got a B on a French Pop Quiz and I got grounded and got my computer and TV time taken away for two weeks) - If I do get lower than A- I get the "I'm never gonna get into a good high school, college, and going to spend my life working as a garbage woman for the rest of my life and other crap" lecture. - They make me do a tutoring class each week to prepare for the ISEE, which is a test kind of like the SAT except for high school. AND they said I have to do an hour a day of studying from this ISEE prep book. - My dad forced me to get 10 french books from my french teacher so I don't forget the language. (We went to Canada for the beginning of summer, I spoke nothing BUT french, they don't even speak french! I had to translate everything for them, they even quizzed me on every single word, during vacation!) - Just a few days ago my mom was saying good night and started ranting on how I did nothing with my summer, how I didn't study, how I have nothing to put on my college application, and how I'm just lazy and sit around doing nothing all day! (I did swim practice, tae-kwon-do, voice class, test prep, test studying, french reading, we went to Canada, Cape Cod!) - Everyday they say: Did you read your French books, did you do your Tae-kwon-do practice, did you study, did you do your hw? 1 I finished my french books 2 months ago! 2. I finish my homework the day I get it! 3. I study every stinkin day, it's summer, jeez! 4. I practice tae-kwon-do when my parents go to work, or my mom goes shopping in NYC, and they don't believe me when I say I did practice. But I can't practice when we're not home because our apartment is too small, and even though they know nothing about karate, they will try to but in and correct and watch my every move! Oh, and here comes the worst part, they watch over like hawks over everything I eat! When I was little they used to sometimes buy me oreos, goldfish crackers, and even a milky way bar if i was good! Now, they stopped buying ice cream, they buy flax seed oil trailmix oatmeal cookies (I'd rather eat garbage). They say it's too much sugar and chemicals. They used to say that I should eat fruits instead. So I started eating fruit, and they now stopped buying a lot of fruit because "fruit has too much sugar" WTFH? Once I took a handful of raisinsOnce I took a handful of raisins (me trying to be healthy so my parents get off my back) and my mom tells me to put half of them back because raisins have too much sugar! They are obsessed with healthy, they made me quit drinking cow milk, eating cheese, white bread, cookies, ice cream, chocolate, coffee, and meat. 1. I'm not lactose-intolerant (NO ONE IN MY FAMILY IS!) 2. I don't have food allergies (I know, I've had a blood test and the doctor says I have no food allergies) 3. I'm 13, 5 foot 3.5 inch and 100 pounds, my BMI is 18. I take sports all year round! I know they want me to be healthy, but they practically let me have no candy or anything like they used to. My grandma has Diabetes (the kind were you can't eat a lot of sugar) but my parents don't have it, and no one else in my family does. I'm always jealous of my friends cause their parents are relaxed and don't limit their food, or make them study in the summer, or hover over them 24/7. Oh, and my mom always complOh, and my mom always complains about how much money I cost for clothes and braces. 1. My mom is the one who makes me shop at Hollister and A&F and AE and Aero. (Yes, she! I say, why can't we go to Kholes or something or macy's to save money and buy more!?) She says that those stores have better quality. I like the clothes, but the perfumes make me GAG. 2. She complains about how I have to wear braces, and the reason I can't get them of is my teeth are slow so my 12 year old molars have grown in, If a had them, my braces would be off. I don't control my teeth! It's not my fault! And when she complains about how much money they cost, I see her online everyday buying a Prada or Coach bags or shoes everyday! I know I'm lucky because they buy me lots of stuff, and we are lucky because we have a lot of money, but it seems like they can use it as an excuse for being so strict about everything else. Side notes: They bought me college application books when I was 12 that tell you how tThey bought me college application books when I was 12 that tell you how to get into college. I go to the best school in my area (It's a small private school for gifted children) and they still complain about how I'm stupid and will never get into college. They also say I have no idea what I want to do in life, and I should already know my whole life plan about college and stuff. I want to be doctor, and I want to go to McGill college in Canada (And move to another country away from THEM) 2. I'm only allowed to go out with friends once a week. If I ask to go out more (even if I have done every chore and worksheet and it fits into my schedule) they will say no because "I've already had too much fun for a week" Is that even possible? Can someone PLEASE explain what that even means? Cause I sure don't. It's like they want to keep me in all day, but then complain about how I don't do anything? WTF? Ps. Don't tell me to talk to them, I tried. If I tried once to have a grown up coversa more

Resolved Question: I'm so mad!!!! I gained 5 pounds!?

I went on vacation for two weeks to London & Paris, I had a great time. But I ate horrible in London we had appetizers every night (hummus and bread we had most often.) Dinner was pastas and lots cheese. We ate tons of french fries etc. But we did do TONS of walking. In Paris we did even more walking, but we still ate horrible. Anyways I am so mad I tried so hard this summer to lose weight and I did 8 pounds. I really just wanted to look good going back to school, but now I will just look fat. I am so mad. I still have 10 days till school any tips on how to lose the weight fast? It also is my period soon so some of it could be water weight. I am still at a healthy weight for my height but I don't feel good about myself. I plan to workout daily and eat healthy so far thats all I am planning.There was some hot guys in london ;) more

Resolved Question: Are you ready for school???

I already bought my school supplies and bought a first day of school outfit!But this year i have a really hard teacher for french so my mom told me she would help me pratice this summer but i cant cuz in july we dident cuz we forgot and dident fell like it then in august i went on a vacation for 2 weeks now im back and now my mom has work this whole entire summer and i dident pratice yet i know nothing and there is only 11 more days of school!what should i do?and are u ready for school? more

Resolved Question: Where can i go to learn more French?

OK so i am learning french in and out of school and i would like to know good websites and good places to go* (besides the library) to learn french. it has been a while since i have learned it due to summer vacation and i have forgot some but i have started to integrate it into what i speak daily to minimize the words i forget. I can pick it up fast so if anyone could help me here that would be great. * i live in Washington State and i would like to know where if anywhere close to go that i can learn french by hearing it spoke by people around me. more

Voting Question: my mom is driving me insane?

my mom is literally driving me insane. first of all, she totally favors my older sister. one day i came home from a friends, to find that my mom cleaned my sisters room, organized it and everything, and she didnt even touch my room. my mom always gives my sister money, even though she has a job and basically lets her do whatever she wants. my mom makes me pay for my phone on my own, and when i ask her for money, she tells me to use my own..even though i have no source of income. also, my mom is VERY judgemental. she thinks alllll black people are felons and drugees and bad people, she thinks democrats have some sort of metal issue and anything music that isnt enya or dido, or something like that is like, the worst music in the world. also, my mom is soo annoying, everything she does annoys the shit out of me..( i know thats partially my fault) she always talks with a french accent and wants to move to paris, even though she is afraid of travel and whenever she is home by herself she makes this big deal out of it and is all like, "ohh, so your just going to leave me home all by myself" i try to go to my friends houses as much as possible, by mom is always like why cant they come here. i have tried talking to her several times about it and she just yells at me and tells me its my attitude, even though, i rarely have one. i just dont know what to do anymore. i cant talk to a school counselor because it is still summer vacation.. i can talk to my friends about it, but they dont understand, and i dont expect them too.. somebody just please help. more

Voting Question: Does anybody know a website with a list of every french word translated into english?

Okay france is last on my list of places to go but french can come in handy in any other place in Europe. I'm also pretty sure a third language will help my chances of getting into a good college, I would have just picked spanish but I have some pretty bad elementary school memory's dealing with spanish class *shudder*, plus I'm sick of people asking what did you do with your summer vacation and I have over a month left so I better use it.The thing is, I don't have the time to look up every word.I'm planning on writing them on flash cards, that works doesn't it? more

Resolved Question: Why can't I find a boyfriend?

Hello Everyone, I seem to have a little problem. I'm alone and I can't understand why. A little about myself: I am a 23 year old attractive gay male, officially and openly out of the closet . I like to dress nicely, smell good, look clean. I am going to university, I have graduated from some previous programs before. I speak and write fluently English, French and Spanish. I am fairly well cultured and well traveled. I consider myself open minded. I live with 3 other very nice roomates ( they are not gay) in a nice apartment in downtown close to any popular bar or club or mall. People usually think I look like Brad Pitt with a heart of gold. People tell me that a problem I have is that of the word no, I have a hard time saying it, and that I help to much other people. Other people can't believe when I tell them that I am still a virgin. I tell them the opportunity has not yet been presented . Still they don't believe me or they tell me that they thought I was a guy that had like a lot of boyfriends and stuff like that. When I ask them why, they say always two things, because of my physique and because I am very friendly and positive. More about me to help you figure out what is going on so you can recommend me anything: I have never had a serious relationship in my life. Once, I dated a girl for a year, nothing sexual ever happened and off course we had to brake up because of my orientation ( a lot of men where after this girl so this was a relief for a lot of people), The other one was a guy I met on a summer vacation, I liked him immediately. I had no Idea it was reciprocal, until I left and then I admitted to him that I liked him, already away over the computer, to which he admitted the same. We started a long distance relationship, after a month it was going to fast, the guy wanted to live with me etc... broke the relationship, even when this other guy was even like the most desired male from the group I was hanging out with that vacation, and we never even kissed or anything. So as you can see not really any relationship at all. A total looser when it comes to that. I started to wonder, maybe I am ugly, since I believe we all live in a dilution. But then I started thinking, then why such comments from my roommates for example, when he tells me stuff like, to bad you're gay, because you'd get any woman you want, or well, high school I had a lot of girls whos heart I had to break. I have been told by the popular girls in school ( i know it sounds cliche but it is true) that I was the only not ridiculous man in school and once one of the girls asked me to participate in a modeling event with her, which I did. Funny thing is that even after this, physical beauty is something that I don't look to much into people. When I worry about my appearance mostly I am worrying that it looks clean, not beautiful but clean, to show my good sense of hi-gene. Luckily I have a sister in fashion who loves buying me cloths so I am always in good fashion ( when I don't even understand fashion). What else, despite being gay and friendly and positive, I don't pass as flamboyant, they tell me I am just full of energy. I am friendly, I like to go out with friends, watch movies, read a lot of books and I get good grades. I come from a nice, inteligent nuclear family, open minded family with a good background and good manners. i am a very good gentleman. I don't have any health problems, I am in good physical condition. good financial position and I smile a lot with perfect teeth ( the dentist said I had the teeth the way they should all be and that I did not need any braces) But today it all hit me suddenly, halfway through the day I became obsolete I stopped everything I was doing and started feeling this horrible sadness and then I realized what my life had been and I believe it is about time I should have some relationship. Another thing is that I can't never tell when someone is flirting with me, and my friends never tell me if there is anyone interested in me. I know it was a long description and I realize I sound very egotistical. But please forgive me this once for talking so high about myself ( a thing I cautiously avoid) but I never do it, and since this is the problem that I am having I had to live my pride behind and tell you how it is. Please any suggestions any answers will be welcome, but please serious answers, I feel very delicate at the moment. Thanks for taking your time to read this. more

Resolved Question: What are some good Colleges for me?

I want to be a doctor. To do that I need to major in premed (I know it's not a major, but a series of classes, but bear with me), and I'm hoping that the following will help me get into a good college, but I'd like to know a decent list of colleges that are challenging and will get me into a good med school. The majors I am looking at are: Calculus Biology I am still open to thoughts of majors that seem good for me judging by my scores. Scores from what I have now: SAT Subject Test Math I: 640 SAT Subject Test Math II:660 SAT Reasoning Test: (Highest Scores out of the two times I have taken it) Critical Reading: 530 Math: 680 Writing: 560 (scored an 8 on my essay) ACT Composite: 30 ACT English: 25 ACT Math: 35 ACT Reading: 32 ACT Science: 27 ACT Writing: 22 GPA is about a 4.0 (give or take .1) Straight A's with only a B in English The "clubs" I am associated with so far, (I'm a senior in public High School) include Peer Leadership, French National Honor Society, and National Honor Society. I am joining the science club this year incase that helps. I am certified for Basic First Aid and CPR, and I took Mini-Medical School Classes if that helps at all. My community services include 39 hours of me teaching at a Vacation Bible School over the summer, 4 hours of me being dressed in a Bob the Builder costume for my county's Touch A Truck, 3 hours of me being a Train Assistant in Winter Wonderland, and 35 hours of volunteering at my communities' hospital. I know my scores on my Critical Reading and Writing for the SATs are low, and I'm planning on taking my last SAT soon, which I have really prepared for. Any choices of colleges that are at the same time challenging, but not too hectic, so I can still enjoy the college experience, will be extremely appreciated, thank you in advanced.I knew I forgot something, I live in Mercer County in New Jersey, and would like to at most go to a college 300-400 miles away more

Resolved Question: I'm scared for level placement tests?

At my new school ((as I said in another question)) the new students have to go a whole day before returning students. My mom said it's probably because I'm going to have to take placement tests, but she didn't know that for a fact. I'm so scared. I got by with a B in Geometry last year but I really don't know anything! And any material that might have passed through my brain was/is surely forgotten during the summer. My plan was to just go on to Algebra ll next year because I had an awful teacher (who ended up getting fired) for Geometry and completely slacked off. I know that I will be trying a lot harder this year and I can pick things up quickly if I put effort in to it. I'm scared that if I have to take a placement test I will fail and get sent back to like 2nd grade math (obviously that's an exaggeration). The only other "leveled" class is French. I'm pretty good at French but I've forgotten a few things with vacation and all and would need a little brushing up on. Like I said before, I don't want to just screw up on a test at the beginning of the year and then be stuck having to repeat the same classes I took last year. Has anyone had to take these tests and were they pretty basic? Do most schools require them? When I started at my old one I just had to meet with a guidance counselor, told her what courses I had already taken and planned my schedule from there. more

Resolved Question: Can I get into Michigan State? Chance me!?

Hi everyone I am about to be a senior this fall and I am reallly hoping to go to MSU. i am applying to their fairly new residential college in the arts & humanities. I went to visit it during the spring and I met with one of the admissions directors for it and she really seemed to like me and I liked her. I got a great feeling when I was there, I knew it is the place I am meant to go. School: Country Day School [very rigorous college prep school and my college counselor said MSU holds spots for country day kids] GPA: this is just a guess but its probably a 3.3 unweighted ; I received an 84 average GPA for the end of Junior year. It was probably higher the past 2 yrs. APs: i took AP psych [waiting for results of the test] and I am taking AP stats, AP photography and AP Shakespeare this upcoming year. i also took honors french SAT: 500M 570CR 610W ACT: Composite: 26 ; 28 English; 20 Math ; 29 Reading ; 27 Science ; 8 Writing [on 8-12 scale] And I know my math is low but I sent MSU the ACT I took before this and got a 23 in math . EC: Freshman year: JV soccer, strength & conditioning, yearbook club, french club, choir Sophomore year: JV soccer, strength & conditioning, yearbook club, french club, art & design Junior year: V mountain biking, JV tennis, french club, diversity council, photography senior year: V cross country, JV tennis, french club [treasurer], diversity council [will have a position], AP photography Community service: 40+ hours ; babysat for my church , worked at a food bank ; took pictures at vacation bible school for a week ; helped out with a garden tour; worked at a dance recital Internship: I had an internship at a courthouse with a Judge for the whole summer before 11th grade. Recommendations: I am getting one from my English teacher. English is my passion and I have received high A's on all of my papers from this English teacher. She has been my teacher for 3 years in a row. She writes very good recommendations and quotes sentences from essays the student has written. ; I will also get a recommendation from the Judge I worked for because she got to know me personally and can give a good recommendation based on my characteristics and qualities. Essay: I already wrote my essay because we had a whole workshop for a month on it in my junior English class. we learned how to write the best we can for college and what colleges are looking for. i received a 96 on it from my teacher so i will be sending that one in. Classes: I have taken 5 english classes [2 senior year], 5 history classes [2 senior year], 4 sciences, 4 maths, 4 years of french, and i have taken art/photography or speech/health for every year. So i have taken as many if not more of the classes MSU recommends. Improvement: This year, I really improved in most all of my classes. my hardest classes were AP psych and honors french. I went from a C- in the first semester of honors french to a B+ [86] by the end of the year. And for psych, I went from a C+ to being one point from an A-. I know MSU looks at improvement. Sorry it's long, but whoever will chance me i will be very grateful! If you don't feel like chancing me, maybe you can tell me what you think of MSU acceptance and how hard/easy it is to get in Thank you!! more

Resolved Question: Is 2 AP classes too much for me to handle?

I am on summer vacation right now and am going to be a sophomore when the next school year starts. This is going to be my schedule: AP Bio AP World History Honors English 10 Algebra 2 French 2 Cross Country/Track & Field Leadership (Like president, vice president, etc...) I was in honors classes in my freshman year, but many people are telling me that just 1 AP class alone is hard and needs serious dedication, so my question is, would 2 AP classes with a sport AND a spot in leadership be impossible, or too hard, for me to handle? (One main reason I want to stick to this schedule is because colleges see that students stand out when they have more challenging courses as opposed to those who may take the "easy" way through.) more

Resolved Question: What are the requirements needed for Wharton? How much more do I need to get in?

Hi, I may be a little to young to be worrying about my college and further studies but I feel it is necessary to ask. I am currently a freshman in the Bronx High School of Science (if that matters), going to be a sophomore in a couple months, after summer vacation. So far my grades are not amazing, 2- 3 A-'s (91's and 92's), 1 A (96), and 1 A+ (100). Obviously, the A+ is in math (geometry), and the A-'s are in Freshman English, AP World History, and Honors Biology. The A is in French 3 - 4. My P.E grade is 98 but that really doesn't matter. So for next years classes I am taking, Honors Physics, Honors English, Honors Math (Trigonometry/Pre-calculus), AP World history Year 2, Sophomore Research for Intel, and French 5 - 6 This is about it, sorry if I missed a class. I am in the Robotics Team and was hoping to join the Science Olympiad next year. I volunteer a fair amount, but not too much. The only i volunteer is for ARISTA, or to help out my community. I am not athletic, but was hoping to join the bowling team next year considering it works out with the Science Olympiad. If anyone can help out, please tell me what I should be involved in to increases my chances to get into Wharton. I will start pulling my grades up because I know they are fairly low. Sorry for talking so much. Thanks more

Resolved Question: Grade 8 Valedictorian Speech?

As we are gathered here today for our grade eight graduation ceremony, we would like to thank our parents/guardians, teachers, principles and everyone else that helped us get through these past ten years at Divine Mercy. This year seemed to go by so fast, it is almost like it was yesterday when we came back from summer vacation just starting grade eight, being excited to be the oldest in the school. We might feel like the oldest now but wait until next year when we will be the minor niners. We have learned a lot in this school from how to count by tens to variables and order of operations. We had very helpful teachers this year who were always there and always saying “I am just preparing you for high school.” Mrs.Letteri, who is always right there to correct our grammar. Mr. Lonardi, who is giving us an assignment every week. Mrs.Fera who does not take lip from anyone and Mr. Martins who is always stroking his chin. We can not forget the French teachers Mme. Doiron and Mme. Cenedese who has taught us everything from Bonjour to Dr. and Mrs. Vandertramp verbs. We also had some awesome supply teachers like Mr. O who seems to have never left because he is here almost everyday teaching one thing or another. Mrs. Santos and we can’t forget Mr. Wychers. We have all come a long way from where we were in kindergarten playing house to where we are now and even though we are heading off into high school we will remember the great things that happened this year. The flag football game between the teachers and the students was a good way to get out of class and have fun even though the teachers did beat us. Some other memorable moments would have to be Sound of Music, Spirit days, St. Michaels Majors, the magician and Captain Mark Sheppard who gave us a real look on just how hard it is to fight to keep us all safe. We also had a lot of school dances which gave us the opportunity to dance away the stresses of school. Also as always Mr. Martins did his annual Grade 8 movie which was very well done. This year we were also confirmed, we renewed our baptismal promises and said “I believe” which made us more spiritually closer to God and we became fully Catholic. But the best thing that happened this year would be our Ottawa trip. Getting there was the longest 5hours of my life, but it was worth it once we got there. We went to a lot of great places like the Embassy where we had the mock trial, the museum of civilization and our visit to the caves. I also had fun when we had the dance the last night we were there and got to see our teachers dance to the YMCA. My favourite moment was the first morning in Ottawa when me and a bunch of my friends were in Starbucks drinking hot chocolate, coffee and water at seven in the morning, I felt like a business man. My most memorable moments from Ottawa are when we literally had five minutes to get ready for our dance and all the fun and funny things that happened in my hotel room. I know most of you like I am are excited for our two month long summer vacation and although we will miss a lot of things about Divine Mercy like the teachers and especially recess, we also have a lot of things to look forward to like lockers and meeting new friends. Even though we had a lot of fun this year we are off into high school next year, we should always remember the halls of this school because this is where we grew from little kids to maturing teenagers and also where we learned the basics of what we needed to know to get off into high school. Next year most of us are going to St. Aloysius Gonzaga but for those who are not we wish you well on journey through life since this is yet just another stepping stone in our life. For those who are going to Gonzaga I am sure we will all see each other from time to time but if we don’t we will always have these great memories. We are thankful for this great school because we know we will go off into high school and know that we can accomplish something great in life. Once again thank you all for a great year and before we end we should all remember this night because this shows we all have graduated from our elementary school that made us partially who we are. Congratulations graduating class of 09!! I would like your feed back about what you think of the speech and please leave any suggestions that you have Thanks :)oh and at our school two ppl get valedictorian so that is why at one point it may be confusing.... the paragraphs also sperate who is saying what more

Resolved Question: Bad situation at the university?

Hy! I am in the first year at the university, in Paris. I'm not French. I'm at Sorbonne, at English language, litterature and civilization. I am not studying very well. Neither is my native language. In the first semester I had 11 exams and I passed only 2. So I have to give the 9 in September. But only 30 students from, I don't know, maybe 150, passed all the exams. It is very difficult, and much more difficult for strangers. And I don't like all my subjects. I hate litterature (I only like reading). I hope that this semestre I will pass more of the exams. Other problem is that I don't feel anymore that I do it for me. I fell that I'm doing it for my family and that I have to learn only in order not to upset them and to make them feel satisfied. Even for the subjects that I like, I learn only in order to pass. I don't know at all the subjects. And my father is telling me from time to time to learn. And I don't like this because I learn, I don't have to learn all the time 24/24. I would like not to learn all day long. I would like also to read a little, to go cycling, things for which I do not have the necessary time. In the summer vacation it will be the same problem because I will have to learn for the exams from the first semestre which are in September. I fell as the worst from the family because my brother is doing very well at school and my father learned very well, he wrote books... Today I told myself that I should start to think that I learn for my, not for anybody else. Because, I think, I would be mure relaxed and not so worried. I would also like to do what you would make in my place next year: or I continue in the second year, or I begin again the first year with all the subjects, or begin again the first year making only the subjects where I didn't pass. Excuse me that, maybe, I didn't write very well or in a very good order. Could you give me some advices, please? more

Voting Question: Got a D in my Junior year, how much will it affect my college chances?

My second semester of 11th grade has been terrible, I prioritized very badly and now I see it is too late to go back and fix it :( I'll end up with this... Gym - A AP Government - A Western Civ - B English 11 Honors - B French 3 - C (maybe B- if I'm lucky, how I managed less than an A in a foreign language class I may never know) AP Biology - C (wasn't expecting any better in that in all honesty) College Algebra and Trigonometry Honors - D First semester I had 4 A's, 2 B's, and one C (in CAT) My GPA before this year was 3.78 as I had gotten mostly A's, a few B's, and one C in Chemistry last year. After first semester it dropped to 3.71 and I really don't want to know what it'll drop to now, well actually I do if anyone could calculate it possibly? Also I didn't do particularly well on the ACT, a very average score of 23. Oh I do have a fair amount of extra curricular clubs I've been in, 5 actually, and I've taught at Vacation Bible School over the summer, thats really the only leadership one though... Anyway how will this final semester hurt my chances for getting into schools such as Marquette, Beloit College, and UW Whitewater & Eau Claire? I am looking to double major or maybe minor in Political Science and either History, Economics, or International Relations...I haven't actually decided yet since I am unsure if I want to be a teacher or go into the government. Please tell me if this will really hurt my future, I really screwed up I know and am freaking out that I'll be paying for it the rest of my life. more

Resolved Question: Any cute fake nail ideas?

Okay so I'm gonna be going on a vacation soon and I wanted to get my nails done. I get out of school on May 29th. I'm going to India- my mom has been there and says its really cool. So this year I'll be going with her. I just want to know what I should go with. I was thinking french tip or Zebra stripes. Please try to be specific like if I should just get the tips done or the whole nail. Also which fake nails last longer- I've heard solar nails last a bit longer- IDK Anyways please any Ideas and make sure their not to long- I like them a little short- not fake looking. * Pictures would be a really good Idea!- that way I know exactly what your talking about. I really want something that looks good in the summer- like bright colors. Thanks and be creative! =D more

Voting Question: just a question about this guy?

okay. so. i met this guy through a friend about two summers ago. and we talk randomly online, but we've never actually seen each other in person. well until recently. i found out that he's going to my high school in the fall and we had to go and take a french entrance exam (like to see if we could take french 1 or 2) and i thought it was him i saw, but i wasnt sure. anyway he comes online hey did i see you at the french test? (cause we've seen pictures of each other on facebook but never in person) and i'm like ha. yepp. and then he's like you're going there next year?! and i'm like yeah. and he's like sweeeet. that means there's four people i know there. cause this is a school where people from all different schools in the area go. and then we talked and talked and he told me his parents were leaving for texas and he had to stay home and i thought he meant he was staying at his house alone while they went on vacation but he meant he just had to stay home and hang out with them for the night. and i'm like ohh haha my parents don't let me stay home overnight for one night! and he's like yeah. mine neither, i think they think i'm gonna have sex or something. and that made me laugh cause we like have hardly talked recently and he just seemed open about it i guess. i'm the only girl he knows going to this high school, and hes one of the two guys that i know going. what do you think? i'm kind of interested, buuut i don't know. comments? more

Resolved Question: do you think im a spoiled brat?

look this is what i have in my room 1.french doors that lead to a balcony 2.a walk in closet (i could have a sleep over in there!) 3.a king bed 4.a vanity mirror 1. an i phone 2.mercedes benz 3. all my clothes is form Gucci, Lacoste, Prada and stuff like that 4.i travel to paris or england for no reason on vacations 5.i get $50 dollars for allowance 6. i go to private school 7. i go shopping at least 3 times a week 8. i do not own anything that is older than 6 months 9. i do not own a pair of shoes that are lower than $100 10.my room is as big as a normal living room 11. and my closet is as big as a normal room 12.i have a plasma tv in my room 13.i have every video game you could ever name 14.i go to expensive dance classes 15.i travel all the way to new jersey just to see the Jonas Brothers 16. my prom dress was $1,000 to make it shorter i kinda get everything i want and even what i dont need and please dont think i get all of this just because my parents dont love me. they do, i visit my dad and stepmom in summer in italy for 2 weeks so yeah! just please be honestps. i have lots of friends and i dont like to show off at school, actually im not really popular at school. and sometimes i donate my allowance to charities and stuff because i really dont think i need it. but i do demand lots of stuff like every time i see something in tv that is cool i want it like my dad (real dad) just ordered me a mac book (i think that is the name) (the laptop) yeah. =-( more

Resolved Question: Do you imperatively need straight A's throughout your entire high school years to consider attending an ivy ?

i'm a young moroccan girl that just recently moved to NYC. I never considered going to an ivy league college before. But i decided to try since we had the incredible chance to move to america. I attend a french school here (so don't ask me about my GPA and stuff) but i'm going to take the SAT's at the end of the year. I had some B's on the first trimester and this trimester i was able to only get one B and all A's. I am also currently working as an intern at the world bank (i'm 16 btw) and plan to do other things during summer vacation ( like go to harvard summer school) i'm going to be part of the volleyball team next year, i'm a green belt at judo but that's all there is. i am going to make up for my lack of extra curriculars so it's not that much of a problem. i haven't done any hours of community service since i just moved to america, but i will do as much as i possibly can (help people when go to morocco and stuff). i just wanted to know if i still had a chance of being accepted or if i should forget about it. My parents tell me that i should give it a shot, but my friends and my brother tell me that it's impossible and that i should forget about it. i really want to get accepted but i know that people that have straight A's a lot of extracurricular activities and an incredible amount of community service hours didn't get accepted, so why would i get accepted ? please be honest and sorry for the length of this message.btw i'm in 11th grade ( in the french system it's 1ere ES) more

Resolved Question: Do French schools have a Summer vacation?

Do schools in France have a Summer vacation? more

Resolved Question: What are some essentials for a europe vacation?

Hello, i'm going to europe for 30 days as part of a high school graduation gift this summer. I am going to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Heidelberg, Lucerne, Milan, Florence, Rome, French Rivera, Barcelona, and Madrid. What do you think I need to be bring? Specifically, how many outfits (regular and dressy) do you think I will need. Note- I plan on doing some wash here and there, so I know I won't need like 40 outfits lol. Thank you for your help! =]Thank you so much for a detailed response. I'm not a "typical" American. Even though I am only 18 I have traveled alot internationally but never to europe. I know alot about european culture largely because I am only 1st generation American and my family is from Italy, Poland, and France. I speak French fluently so I should get around there fine. But thanks again for your responses! =] more

Resolved Question: Is there a college where I can take a class in French or Italian instead at high school?

I'm a freshman in high school, and we're already starting to do a schedule for next year. I was going to take French I and Acting, but now I found out that there is a journalism class I can take. I have to write a statement, get a teacher recommendation, and a interview. I have apply for the class, and it's for the high school newspaper. The acting workshop is good, but you have to audition for it. I have been acting since 6, so I am pretty confident I would get in. I am also a pretty good writer, and got a B in Honors Language Arts. I think I would get into both programs. I usually get all A's on my writing scores in Language Arts. I have to take two years of foreign language, but would like to go to a early entrance college program called Bard College at Simon's Rock. They would have liked you to have two years, but I had no room in my schedule. I only get two electives next year, so those would be it. I looked at Emory University and they had a night class, but it wasn't a credit course. I tried Georgia Perimeter College and they didn't have much information online. I may think UGA may have something too. Though, the college's are still not close to my house. My school offers French, Latin, German, and Spanish. I would take French, or Italian at a community college. My grandfather was born in Sicily, and Grandma is from Southern Italy. I am half Italian, so i figured that it may be good to learn it. I do know juniors and seniors can take dual enrollment, but I just want one class. I probably won't take it in the summer, since I usually go on a vacation most of the time. I don't have time to go to the guidance counselor, and I don't think a teacher would know. If I take a class, would it be on my transcript? Does UGA have something I can do? I may get a job at Publix, or go to year round swim team. So, time if valuable. The class has to be for credit. I don't think I would do good with another language, lol. Do you have any feedback or advice? I really would like to take all three next year, but I only get two electives. The journalism paper is due in a couple weeks, so I need to know soon. I want to be a journalist and an actor. Thank you!Thanks, but I don't live in NC. more

Resolved Question: Will i be able to get the credits?

so, i am in grade 9 and exams are coming up. im going on a vacation to the Philippines and i haven't been there since i was 6, so i really need to go. im leaving on January 20 to February 13th exams start on January 20th to the 26th Current Marks: French - 91 Geography - 62 French - 84 Science - 76 These aren't my FINAL marks but i can't be so sure that they will be raised any higher. we have final assignments that are worth 15% and the exam is worth another 15% will i still be able to pass? or will i have to resort to summer school 0_o HELP?!sorryy, the first french was meant to be Business. more

Resolved Question: Study Abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina for this upcoming summer?

I am an American and I really want to go to another country, (i have my eyes set on Argentina) this upcoming summer. I want to learn a language. I know I am only going to speak a language fluently if i immerse myself w/i an environment in which people only speak that language. I have taken French all my life, but I am extremely confident I can pick up Spanish, as i am a fast learner and i have complete determination and faith in myself. I am currently a senior in high school, so I will be 18 by the time i arrive in Buenos Aires and when my summer vacation is over i will have to go back to America to attend my University. (I want to leave sometime in June) i want to leave immediately after my high school graduation. I hope to only return to America to attend my university. Does anyone have any good suggestions or programs that can provide me with an opportunity that i have drawn out? I do not want to be part of a program that would confine me and set a strict schedule. I want to perhaps stay with a host family, explore Buenos Aires freely and the rest of Argentina. Rest assured i have every intention of treating my host family (if this should occur) with the utmost respect and abiding by their rules. I believe staying with a host family would greatly benefit me as i would have someone to converse with (in Spanish) I also would like to take a language class (if possible...I'm sure it is) but i am totally open to suggestion. Thank you very very much...i hope to hear some great responses soon THANKS A MILLION!!! more

Resolved Question: French Question :) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?

have been working on some sentences for my french coursework. I would like to know if what I have written in french is correct to what I want to say in english. Please can someone check for me and correct me on my mistakes, thank you :) Chaque année pendant les vacances scolaires, je retournais en France avec ma mère pour l'été. Each year during the school vacation, I returned in France with my mother for the summer. Mon père trouvé un emploi en France donc nous passons deux semaines avec lui. My father found a job in France therefore we pass two weeks with him. Nous avons passé de très bonnes vacances en Bretagne cet été; à part il pleuvait "............." We passed a very good vacation in Brittany this summer; apart from it rained throughout our stay. How do you say "throughout our stay" in French. Thanks :) more

Resolved Question: Is it really bad to only take 2 years of a language in high school?

I'm a junior in high school, and i took two years of spanish and got As both years. I then wanted to switch to French (because i plan to move to Canada after college), but it was impossible to work into my schedule due to classes that only occur during one certain period. I plan to go to an out of state college (my favorite is Ithaca College right now) and i will be a science teacher when i grow up. I am taking tough classes in place of a language, so hopefully it won't look too bad to colleges in applications...I may take French at a local community college next summer, but i feel that i may be way too busy with jobs/volunteer work/vacations/etc, so it might not be possible for me to take the French class. Is this a really bad thing to do?:( more

Resolved Question: I want to go to France and see if thats where I want to reside, please help!!?

Well when I graduate high school I want to go to college in France, but I want to go to France next summer for 2 months of my vacation, so where are some apartments I can stay, like the one week apartments and stuff, where is a good area to stay in, I will be about 16 or 17 when i go, so please give me the fun, best, beautiful, and not to expensive parts, I will also go to become fluent in French, so please help me...please and thank you more

Resolved Question: People who speak french! Help me?

how do you sayy... me too, i always get up around 6 for school..et tu? yes, i dont like to be hurried! well, what do you do over summer vacation? i also get up early, but around 9 or 10 NO0OO0O0O0O0O00OO translattion sites, i want teachers or people who know the language very well! please! NO0OO0O0O0O0O00OO translattion sites, i want teachers or people who know the language very well! please! more

Resolved Question: I'm stuck at the mid-point of my Chapter Three. Opinions of it, please. :)?

Chapter Three: Penumbra Anna 1st Period AP English III 2nd Period AP Pre-calculus 3rd Period AP Physics 4th Period Aquatic Biology Lunch B 5th Period French III 6th Period Leadership 7th Period AP European History Relief conquered anxiety. I’d been worried I wouldn’t get all the classes I’d asked for in my transcript. Taking five Advanced Placement classes was a lot of work, too much for most people, but I knew that I could do it. The classes weren’t necessarily hard but the colossal workload attached to them was extremely tedious and time consuming. Fear overshadowed relief; eclipsing anxiety. A new school, a new life, a new home. The three glorious gifts I’d been given by moving down south to Killeen. It was with my concession that it was done, Mom didn’t even have to drag me from the lushes’ comforts of Austin to come to the mundaness that was and would always be Killeen. I turned the yellow sheet of my schedule over for the crude overview map of the school, searching for my first period English class in Room 108. I sighed and walked off to make a desperate attempt at finding it. I made it to class a couple of minutes late having to ask a random person in the hallway to escort me to class, but I found this didn’t matter anyways. The teacher wasn’t even there. I bent my head over, carefully examining the laces of my shoes, and stalked off to an empty seat in the very back of the room. I shrugged off my empty book bag into the space below my chair, gazing around the classroom to view this foreign habitat that was my new one. The first thing I realized was how overly decorated it was. Literature posters plastered every space of the walls, overlapping the original white behind so thoroughly that not even a speck of it was visible. The teacher’s desk was despicably messy: Papers books, and pens were scattered all about it, even from this distance that was plainly visible. The second thing that I realized was how segregated everyone was. There was an invisible line in the class dividing the band geeks and anime nerds on the left of it and the jocks and other people who wore extremely tight clothes on the right of it. This was nostalgic; it had been exactly the same back in my old school. Though there had been a middle group, which I had been a part of, that served in place of the invisible equator. Both groups seemed to have liked us equally; I thought of us as being neutral. It seemed things would be different at this school. Inevitably, I would no longer be able to remain neutral and would have to chose between one of the sides, being that weird new kid in the back of the classroom would soon no longer be an available option. For now though, it was a more appealing alternative. I sighed and dropped my gaze from my surroundings and looked down at my heavily graffitied desk, contemplating the events that led me to be here. Mom’s and Dad’s divorce had not been as dramatic as I thought it would be, considering the enormity of their personalities, but in fact it turned out to be a clean, mutual break. Mom was exhausted of the city life in Austin and had out rightly said to Dad that she wanted to move back to her hometown of Killeen. Of course Dad didn’t take this well at all; he had been born, raised, and even went to college in Austin. He refused, Mom filed for divorce, he agreed, and I was left betwixt the two. I truly did love my dad just as much as I loved my mom, but if it were a question as to whom I’d rather live with, he wouldn’t be the one to come out on top. So a week after my birthday on the twenty-second of June, I was packing my bags and getting prepared to spend the remaining month of my summer vacation in Killeen. After moving everything into the new house, which was actually only slightly smaller then the one back in Austin, I went around town to see if there was anything to whisk away the unavoidable hours of boredom from being inside the house for too long. I drove around the small town, went inside its shops, and even took a brave stab at going inside its disappointedly tiny mall, when I came to the conclusion that I had willingly moved to the most dismal, boring place in Texas; possibly in the whole U.S.A. I could not understand Mom’s affinity for Killeen try as I might, and soon found myself privately wishing I had chosen to stay with Dad back in Austin. A beep over my head pulled me out of my thoughts and the sound of a girl’s voice issued around the classroom, announcing to stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance and Texas Flag, which were succeeded by a moment of silence. After sitting down back in my graffitied desk to buckle in for the silence, I noticed how everyone’s heads all darted towards me as soon as they too had sat down. I felt my cheeks turn red and quickly looked down at my desk, starring intently at the name someone had carved into it. Nicholas. “Thank you,” came the girl’s voice once again. “Now will you please turn on your T.V to channel 76 for E.T.V; today’s Eagle announcements.” I looked up at the T.V, a more satisfactory distraction, expecting for someone to turn it on, but no one bothered. I could no longer feel anyone’s eyes gazing intently at me, but I looked around anyways just to be positive. The people on the left were all grossly emerged in a conversation about the newest episode of an anime involving ninjas; the people on the right were recounting the events of last Saturday’s party with extreme enthusiasm. Nobody was paying the slightest bit of attention to me, having found their own social life much more interesting than the new kid in the back of the room. I relaxed a little, my disposition becoming less rigid. I looked up at the clock above the whiteboard behind the teacher’s desk to see what time it was. 9:05. This must have been a pretty horrible teacher to be late for her own first period class on the first day of school. My eyes casually looked around the class before sinking down to my desk again, but before they did I saw not quite everybody had looked away from me. A boy with short brown hair and deep chocolate brown eyes on the right side of the room had looked up from his cell phone that he had been avidly texting on and met my gaze expectantly. I considered dropping my eyes from his but thought that doing so would have been rude, so I simply stared back. I had anticipated for this to be awkward but instead found the unasked attention he was extorting toward me was contrarily pleasant. I weighed the few option presented to me. There was a wide open door for me to walk through if I was to submit to its provocation, but I knew how conceited and selfish people on the other side had the potential to be and ordinarily were. The other door beside this one was marginally open; only a fraction of light escaped from its crack. If I were to forcefully open this door then I knew that that meant I would be skyrocketed to the bottom of the school’s food chain. Even if the people down there with me were much kinder then the people higher up, I didn’t fancy being a lowly producer; not even close to being a primary consumer. I felt an unfathomable longing for the middle group that had always been there, I only now acknowledged how much I missed them. Unsure if I was making the best decision or not, I felt the muscles of my mouth uncomfortably twitch as I gave the gawking boy a timid smile. This had evidently been the sign of reassurance he had been looking and hopefully expecting to see because he flashed me an unabashed smile, revealing the braces on his teeth that didn’t mitigate the radiance of them in the slightest. The handle of the classroom’s door turned as someone from the other side opened it and I was forced out of curiosity to drop my prolonged gaze and instead look at who had entered the classroom: A squat women with short, fly-away, brown curly hair with some traces of gray in it who was wearing glasses that framed outrageously gray eyes. The people on both sides of the classroom quickly shifted their desks away from each other and stared placidly at whom I assumed had to be the teacher, silently evaluating how strict she might be. I gave a final fertile glance at the boy I was starring at and saw he had decided to take the same course of action at the same time I did. He winked at me before turning back around to face the front of the room and I surprised myself by genuinely smiling. Perhaps this place wouldn’t be as horrible as I had expected it to be. By now, the teacher had sat down in her own wooden, arched chair and was shuffling through the untidy items spread out among her desk. Once again, I looked up at the clock and saw only five minutes had transpired since I last looked at it. She was fifteen minutes late. “Ah, here it is!” she exclaimed in a heavily drenched Irish accent as she extracted a white paper from the top of a teetering pile of papers that looked as if the most gentlest breeze could cause them to topple over. “Now when I call your name, I would like you to respond with “here. I’m very sure you are all used to this by now anyways….Anna Adkins!” “Here,” I responded quietly, looking back down at the embedded name on my desk as I felt the eyes of turned heads piercing through me. “Eh? No Anna Adkins?” “No, no. I-I’m here,” I stuttered helplessly, speaking a little louder then before. My eyes still hadn’t left the name on my desk and my cheeks burned even more fiercely from the drawn out attention focused on me. “Well, speak up next time,” said the teacher in a tone meant for someone who had done her a deep wrong. She muttered something unintelligent under her breath, more then likely in Irish just in case somebody in the front row overheard her, and continued on with the roll. “Justin Armani!’ I looked up from my desk to see whom the named belonged to. If I was going to spend about two more years with these people than having a name to match their face was the concrete first step to furbishing any kind of relationship. I waited for a “here,” but none came. The people on the left were looking annoyed at something I couldn’t fathom. The people on the right were all glancing at each other with smiles on their faces, as if they were enjoying some kind of private joke. I could find no apparent connection between the abrupt changes of persona. “No Justin Armani?” asked the teacher, looking up from the roll sheet and scanning the class with her gray eyes as if expecting the person in question to jump out of their seat. “Here,” came a quiet voice from the right side of the room, an outbreak of stifled chuckles and snorts came from there as well. I looked at the boy with chocolate brown eyes and saw that he was also looking at me with a sly smile etched on his face. I didn’t understand what was going on. “Did someone say something?” asked the teacher at apparent loss as to if she was hearing a voice inside her head or not. I felt a surge of sympathy towards her: She was experiencing the unavoidable symptoms partnered along with old age. “Here,” came the voice again. This time I saw whom it belonged to. I was still looking at the boy and noticed that his mouth narrowly opened after the teacher had asked again. “Eh?” she said. “Here!” he blasted, causing me to startle in my chair, my heart beating in profuse mummers. An eruption of laughing issued from the people around him, whereas the people on the other hemisphere of the equator were starring daggers at its other half. “Now really Mr. Armani. Such yelling is not permitted in my class. I will not warn you again. And all of you, stop laughing!” said the teacher glaring at who I now was completely sure was Justin. He laughed to himself with everyone else as the teacher continued on with the roll and the giggles began to slowly abate. I dropped my gaze from the side of his face as he turned his head to catch my eyes again, looking at my desk for what felt like the infinite time. I knew he was looking at me, analyzing to see if what he had done was humorous to me. I tried to keep my face as stoic as possible but felt that some traces of hurt were plainly etched there. I was extremely borderline. I truly couldn’t decide if what Justin had done was funny; making fun of an old lady with a hearing impairment was about as funny as taking candy from a baby. To me they both had the potential to be hilarious, but were also extremely potent to being hurtful. Even if I had ignored the evident contradictions my conscious was giving, I still would have found it very hard to even pretend this was funny. I don’t know if I was being paranoid or not but I felt like he was poking fun at me for being shy when the teacher had called upon me. Admittedly, this hurt me even though I knew it was too small a wound to worry about. I didn’t like being the scapegoat for hilarity, being laughed at instead of being laughed with. This might be insight into Justin’s character, or maybe I was being too judgmental based on first impressions alone. They were often wrong anyways. The groan of a chair skidding against the floor caused my head to snap up and look at the front of the room to see that the teacher had gotten up from her chair. She carried in her arms the familiar beginning of the year packets introducing the teacher and their many rules. She passed them out to everyone and when I received mine I looked at the top of the first sheet and saw the title “Ms.___ Guidelines” followed by the materials needed for her class. I was about to sigh quietly but thought better of it just in case it someone found this as an excuse to turn around and look at me, more unwanted attention. I slumped deeper in my chair, preparing for the droning speech about her various rules and what she expected from her A.P classes. She assigned us a two page, front and back, paper about any kind of obstacle we’d overcame in our life that made us stronger, due Wednesday. My right hand moaned with foreboding. I could imagine how much pain it would be in by tomorrow night. The bell sounded above us from the intercom and everyone scuffled to get their book bags, in a rush to escape the confinements of the room as quickly as possible. My reflexes, already slower than most people’s, would have slowed me down naturally but I decided to dramatize getting my book bag from under my chair to perfectly ensure I would be the last one to leave, which I was. As I walked out the classroom’s door and turned bearing right toward the staircase further down the hallway, I walked headfirst into the warm, muscular chest of somebody leaning against the wall by the doorframe. I hurriedly staggered away from them, ready to stutter a quick apology and leave the escalating awkward scene. I lifted my head up and parted my lips slightly, but when I found myself looking at the tanned face of Justin my mouth just dangled wide open, the words about to flutter from it extinct. He smiled. “Need help getting to your next class?” His voice was deep and husky. I was positive if he were around his friends it wouldn’t be. His eyes traveled down from my own and to my wide-open mouth. I quickly closed it, feeling my cheeks turn red once again. “Yeah, I probably do.” The corners of my mouth twitched up, forming another genuine smile. The truth was I actually did need his help unless I took the risk of being late again. “ Kay, what is it?” His voice was soothing to me; the red patches on my cheeks began to fade away. “Um, let me look real quick.” I said, raising the schedule in my left hand up to my face and searched for second period. “Pre-Cal. Room 209.” I looked up at Justin; his eyes weren’t looking at my own anymore but had drifted down to the logo branded on my white shirt stretched across my chest. I cleared my throat and raised my schedule to my chest, wrapping my arms around it. “Oh, I have Pre-Cal next, too.” Justin said, looking up from my chest after I had covered it, completely unashamed. It didn’t bother me either; honestly, I had grown used to the bestiality of men back in freshman year and the fact it was Justin only made it easier to ignore. I felt oddly comfortable around him, but since he was a guy it was only typical that he would give into one of his initial instincts: Being hungry, sleepy, and, of course, horny. “A.P?” I asked, making an effort to hide my disbelief “Nah, regular. The only A.P class I have is English,” Justin said, leaning off of the wall. “But my class is right next door to yours, it’s Room 211. I can walk you there if you want.” “Sounds like a plan, “ I said as we walked down the hallway to the staircase. It was amazing how easy talking to him was. A hello hadn’t even been necessary. “So, you’re new here right?” Justin asked me as he opened the door of the staircase. “Yeah, I came from Austin,” I said as we walked up the first set of stairs. “It’s a big jump from a city like Austin to a place like Killeen,” he said stopping on the landing in between the first and second staircase when we reached it. I didn’t respond to this truth. It was too big a jump. For the first time since I had started talking to him, I felt uncomfortable. Instead of stopping on the landing like he had, I turned my back to him and continued up the staircase. I heard him walk from the landing, his footsteps lingering in the almost absolute emptiness, and he appeared beside me. “Do you like it here so far?” Justin was delving too deep for our first conversation. The uncomfortable feeling of the situation was becoming paramount, forming an invisible barrier around me, warding me against any particle of Justin’s aura. “I like it here so far….I’m still getting used to the place.” Lying wasn’t easy for me, but since half of this was the truth it made things a bit easier to do. Still, Justin wasn’t fooled. “You don’t look happy,” he said pushing upon the handles of the door that led up stairs and holding it open for me. “I’m still getting used to things here,” I repeated the truthful part of my half-lie. A silence issued between us as we walked pass Room 205, maneuvering around the sparse, stationary crowds. I noticed some of the faces were familiar, they had been in my last period class. They glared at us with scrutiny, disbelief. For one fleeting second I wondered if Justin’s pleasant exterior was all just a show and that he was using me or making fun of me again. “Room 209, ma’am,” Justin said flashing me another wide smile of his. He inadvertently sent a final blast of comfort that broke through my invisible force field. All previous suspicions and discomfort were washed away. Justin was something pretty amazing. “Well, thanks for the help Justin.” Even though I would thoroughly miss him when he was gone, I was eager to escape to the back of my classroom. Again. It was my only sanctuary from the majority of these impending stares. “No problem, no problem.” He seemed to be in a different world completely. I noticed his forehead wrinkle; his eyebrows contracted together. He was gazing intently at me and I was gazing right back, making me completely oblivious of anything else going on outside our little bubble. “I guess I’ll be seeing you in a little while then?” I said after pulling out of my trance, unsure of how long we had been standing there in silence. Hopefully it had been brief, but my mind told me something different. I grudgingly popped our bubble and took a step towards the door of my next class. “Wait real quick.” Justin gently grabbed my arm and I turned around. His brows were separated and his forehead was smooth again, but his eyes still glinted with purpose. “What lunch do you have?” I tried to recall my designated lunch without glimpsing at my schedule. “B, I think.” “Cool.” Justin’s eyes relaxed but they still burrowed into mine. It was like he was attempting to read my thoughts. I blinked. “You should come eat lunch with me.” He said the words slowly, making them sound awkward. I hadn’t given much thought to where I would sit at during lunch but to a school socialite like Justin the social order of the tables were stupendously important; status quo and all. I understood the dire risk he was taking by inviting me to join his table. “That’s kind of what I already had in mind.” This lie was easy. Justin’s face brightened and he shot me another wide smile of his. We were both evokers of jubilation. “See you later then, Anna.” He gave me a brief wave and I returned it with a smile. We both walked away to our classes and once again I became aware of the sheer amount of people that had witnessed our transactions. I made a mental note to constantly remind myself it was too early to harbor any kind of crush. The mere thought echoed in my head. Crush. Crush. Crush. Justin’s face and wide smile emanated into my thoughts; my heart lagged with longing. As I entered the classroom I looked at the clock even though I knew it would be an hour until I would be able to see him again. I would be positively pining by then. With a nostalgic rush of déjà vu I sighed, looked down at my shoelaces, and headed toward the back of the classroom. Nicholas The day was going by too slow. It was difficult to believe that it was only halfway over. Of course lunchtime would have the complete opposite effect, going faster rather than dragging in lulls like the last four classes had. Forty-five minutes of freedom would not feel so. Time had a horrible habit of speeding itself up when I wanted it to slow down, slowing down when I wanted it to speed up. I stabbed at my baked potato with my fork as I watched Jared and Tom wait in line for their lunch. A single girl separated them from Tony and his friend whom I was pretty sure was called Justin. I had never spoken or had any classes with him before but, like Tony, his name was often heard in the hallway. I looked away from Tony and sought to find something distracting, the beast was beginning to manifest. I knew my fervent search would be hopeless if I allowed it to take over; my will power wasn’t strong enough yet. Then my eyes fell upon the perfect distraction. Her. The girl in between Tom and Justin had swung her bleach blond head around and was laughing at what the latter had said, revealing a dazzling set of teeth that glinted in the sunlight shimmering down from the windows above. Even from this distance I could see that her eyes were a true shade of cerulean blue, her skin pale. Extremely pale, ivory even. I looked down at my hand that wasn’t holding the fork and noted that she was possibly even paler then I was, a fete I had not thought possible. I looked back up at her, mesmerized. She was entering her pin code and her mouth was forming words I couldn’t hear. The cafeteria lady she was talking to went to the ¬¬¬_____ behind her and grabbed Vitamin Water and then handed it to the girl. She walked off to one of the circular tables that were in clear view from my corner booth. “Hey, man,” I looked away from the girl and saw Jared standing over me with Tom; they slipped into the bench across on the other side. “Hey,” I rested my elbows on the table and balled up my hand into a fist, cupping it with my other hand, and positioned my chin on the top of them. Thinking. “So how’s your day been so far? This is the first year I won’t have all my classes with you.” Jared said. As he spoke, I noticed how oddly perfect his teeth were. I was used to the haphazard mess they had been when he had braces. Another thing I would have to get used to this year. “Boring. And long.” I looked away from them and back at the girl who was now sitting at a table with Tony and Justin, positively gaping at the latter. My gaze turned into a glare, a totally different monster then before growled inside of me. “ I think I might skip the rest of the day.” She tucked her long hair behind her ear and the sun shined down on her, illuminating her the way it did paper. Why was I so intrigued by her? No other girl had ever peaked by interest this thoroughly. But then again, no other girl I had met before was an Albino. Maybe I had some kind of unknown fetish for them. “You shouldn’t do that.” I knew it was Tom’s voice without having to look. “At least not this week, wait ‘til next week.” Always the voice of reason amongst the group, he’d be saying the same thing again next Monday. “ Sure thing. Only for you, Tom,” I smiled even though my eyes remained a glare. I heard Jared bring up a topic about Tony, malice implanted in every syllable. I, thankfully, wasn’t needed for this conversation. My smiled dropped back into a frown. She was trying to unscrew the top of her bottle but Justin grabbed it from her after watching her struggle for a few seconds. She smiled feebly at him as he opened it and set it in front of her. She didn’t drink from it but instead surveyed the cafeteria while Justin began talking to Tony. Her eyes wondered to the “Got Milk?” poster above our booth, then at Tony, then at Jared, and then at me. Our eyes met. The beast was let loose from its cage.My story has nothing to do with vampires or werewolves whatsoever. Woot, woot!Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that those odd underscore marks represent blank spots for things i couldn't fill in, can't think of a good name for them. >_> more

Resolved Question: My second chapter( first four pages of it)?

Chapter Two: Kismet Jade 1st Period AP English III 2ND Period AP Pre-calculus 3rd Period AP Physics 4th Period Aquatic Biology Lunch B 5th Period French III 6TH Period Leadership 7th Period AP European History Relief conquered anxiety. I’d been worried I wouldn’t get all the classes I’d asked for in my transcript. Taking five Advanced Placement classes was a lot of work, too much for most people, but I knew that I could do it. The classes weren’t necessarily hard but the colossal workload attached to them was extremely tedious and time consuming. Fear overshadowed relief; eclipsing anxiety. A new school, a new life, a new home. The three glorious gifts I’d been given by moving down south to Killeen. It was with my concession that it was done, Mom didn’t even have to drag me from the lushes’ comforts of Austin to come to the mundaness that was and would always be Killeen. I turned the yellow sheet of my schedule over for the crude overview map of the school, searching for my first period English class in Room 108. I sighed and walked off to make a desperate attempt at finding it. I made it to class a couple of minutes late having to ask a random person in the hallway to escort me to class, but I found this didn’t matter anyways. The teacher wasn’t even there. I bent my head over, carefully examining the laces of my shoes, and stalked off to an empty seat in the very back of the room. I shrugged off my empty book bag into the space below my chair, gazing around the classroom to view this foreign habitat that was my new one. The first thing I realized was how overly decorated it was. Literature posters plastered every space of the walls, overlapping the original white behind so thoroughly that not even a speck of it was visible. The teacher’s desk was despicably messy: Papers books, and pens were scattered all about it, even from this distance that was plainly visible. The second thing that I realized was how segregated everyone was. There was an invisible line in the class dividing the band geeks and anime nerds on the left of it and the jocks and other people who wore extremely tight clothes on the right of it. This was nostalgic; it had been exactly the same back in my old school. Though there had been a middle group, which I had been a part of, that served in place of the invisible equator. Both groups seemed to have liked us equally; I thought of us as being neutral. It seemed things would be different at this school. Inevitably, I would no longer be able to remain neutral and would have to chose between one of the sides, being that weird new kid in the back of the classroom would soon no longer be an available option. For now though, it was a more appealing alternative. I sighed and dropped my gaze from my surroundings and looked down at my heavily graffitied desk, contemplating the events that led me to be here. Mom’s and Dad’s divorce had not been as dramatic as I thought it would be, considering the enormity of their personalities, but in fact it turned out to be a clean, mutual break. Mom was exhausted of the city life in Austin and had out rightly said to Dad that she wanted to move back to her hometown of Killeen. Of course Dad didn’t take this well at all; he had been born, raised, and even went to college in Austin. He refused, Mom filed for divorce, he agreed, and I was left betwixt the two. I truly did love my dad just as much as I loved my mom, but if it were a question as to whom I’d rather live with, he wouldn’t be the one to come out on top. So a week after my birthday on the twenty-second of June, I was packing my bags and getting prepared to spend the remaining month of my summer vacation in Killeen. After moving everything into the new house, which was actually only slightly smaller then the one back in Austin, I went around town to see if there was anything to whisk away the unavoidable hours of boredom from being inside the house for too long. I drove around the small town, went inside its shops, and even took a brave stab at going inside its disappointedly tiny mall, when I came to the conclusion that I had willingly moved to the most dismal, boring place in Texas; possibly in the whole U.S.A I could not understand Mom’s affinity for Killeen try as I might, and soon found myself privately wishing I had chosen to stay with Dad back in Austin. A beep over my head pulled me out of my thoughts and the sound of a girl’s voice issued around the classroom, announcing to stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance and Texas Flag, which were succeeded by a moment of silence. After sitting down back in my graffitied desk to buckle in for the silence, I noticed how everyone’s heads all darted towards me as soon as they too had sat down. I felt my cheeks turn red and quickly looked down at my desk, starring intently at the name someone had carved into it. Nicholas. “Thank you,” came the girl’s voice once again. “Now will you please turn on your T.V to channel 76 for E.T.V; today’s Eagle announcements.” I looked up at the T.V, a more satisfactory distraction, expecting for someone to turn it on, but no one bothered. I could no longer feel anyone’s eyes gazing intently at me, but I looked around anyways just to be positive. The people on the left were all grossly emerged in a conversation about the newest episode of an anime involving ninjas; the people on the right were recounting the events of last Saturday’s party with extreme enthusiasm. Nobody was paying the slightest bit of attention to me, having found their own social life much more interesting than the new kid in the back of the room. I relaxed a little, my disposition becoming less rigid. I looked up at the clock above the whiteboard behind the teacher’s desk to see what time it was. 9:05. This must have been a pretty horrible teacher to be late for her own first period class on the first day of school. My eyes casually looked around the class before sinking down to my desk again, but before they did I saw not quite everybody had looked away from me. A boy with short brown hair and deep chocolate eyes on the right side of the room had looked up from his cell phone that he had been avidly texting on and met my gaze expectantly. I considered dropping my eyes from his but thought that doing so would have been rude, so I simply stared back. I had anticipated for this to be awkward but instead found the unasked attention he was extorting toward me was contrarily pleasant. I weighed the few option presented to me. There was a wide open door for me to walk through if I was to submit to its provocation, but I knew how conceited and selfish people on the other side had the potential to be and ordinarily were. The other door beside this one was marginally open; only a fraction of light escaped from its crack. If I were to forcefully open this door then I knew that that meant I would be skyrocketed to the bottom of the school’s food chain. Even if the people down there with me were much kinder then the people higher up, I didn’t fancy being a lowly producer; not even close to being a primary consumer. I felt an unfathomable longing for the middle group that had always been there, I only now acknowledged how much I missed them. Unsure if I was making the best decision or not, I felt the muscles of my mouth uncomfortably twitch as I gave the gawking boy a timid smile. This had evidently been the sign of reassurance he had been looking and hopefully expecting to see because he flashed me an unabashed smile, revealing the braces on his teeth which didn’t mitigate the radiance of them in the slightest. The handle of the classroom’s door turned as someone from the other side opened it and I was forced out of curiosity to drop my prolonged gaze and instead look at who had entered the classroom: A squat women with short, fly-away, brown curly hair with some traces of gray in it who was wearing glasses that framed outrageously gray eyes. The people on both sides of the classroom quickly shifted their desks away from each other and stared placidly at whom I assumed had to be the teacher, silently evaluating how strict she might be. I gave a final fertile glance at the boy I was starring at and saw he had decided to take the same course of action at the same time I did. He winked at me before turning back around to face the front of the room and I surprised myself by genuinely smiling. Perhaps this place wouldn’t be as horrible as I had expected it to be. By now, the teacher had sat down in her own wooden, arched chair and was shuffling through the untidy items spread out among her desk. Once again, I looked up at the clock and saw only five minutes had transpired since I last looked at it. She was fifteen minutes late for her own class. “Ah, here it is!” she exclaimed in a heavily drenched Irish accent as she extracted a white paper from the top of a teetering pile of papers that looked as if the most gentlest breeze could cause them to topple over. “Now when I call your name, I would like you to respond with “here”. I’m very sure you are all used to this by now anyways….Jade Adkins!” “Here,” I responded quietly, looking back down at the embedded name on my desk as I felt the eyes of turned head piercing through me. “Eh? No Jade Adkins?” “No, no. I-I’m here,” I stuttered helplessly, speaking a little louder then before. My eyes still hadn’t left the name on my desk and my cheeks burned even more fiercely from the drawn out attention focused on me. “Well, speak up next time,” said the teacher in a tone meant for someone who had done her a deep wrong. She muttered something unintelligent under her breath, more then likely in Irish just in case somebody in the front row overheard her, and continued on with the roll. “Justin Armani!’BTW: I'm fourteen years old and the first chapter I posted here earlier last week. Look at ony my profile for it if your interested :P.* I meant look on my profile for it, was typing really fast. Sorry. :)* more

Resolved Question: Who can kindly help me translate the englsih to French? Your great help will be appreciated very much!?

Application Letter I, a junior student majoring in International Trade in University, want to apply for studing in X major, L3 stage in your honorable University; in addition, I can definitely acquire BAC+3 diplomas this year. I love the discipline of International Trade and I have been keeping the first position in academics learning during my school time. I deeply feel the shortage of my knowledge especially when I took part-time job in summer vacation. Under this circumstance, only one way I can choose is to study overseas where I can enrish my learning experiences and supplement my knowledge deficiency. I prefer to choose France as my destined country to realize my further study not only it is internationalization and prosperous economy, French and French culture I give priority to if I can make comparision. Secondly, fluent French and acquaintance with French culture will facilitate me to smooth my future career in French company if possible. more