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Post by Pkia on Feb 15, 2006 22:00:31 GMT -5
Life is a learning experience. We learn interesting things at school or work, in interacting with other people, in simply walking down the street. What did you find today that fascinates you?
Today I learned that 25% of 8 year olds pick their noses. 70% of 8 year olds that pick their noses also eat it. I found this out because I had to watch it. Ew.
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Post by nancy on Feb 15, 2006 22:17:30 GMT -5
Why did you have to watch that? I mean, I know you're with the kids, but couldn't you have looked the other way or something? This is actually something I learned yesterday... but it works. I learned that writing down thoughts before speaking them and then reading them out loud and not adding anything really cuts on misunderstandings. If you're a fast writer like me, that's cool. If not... then it's still worth it. We had one of the best class discussions I ever had in this way. (I also learned that I spend too much time procrastinating instead of doing homework... even when I got long school days the next day. )
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Post by Pkia on Feb 15, 2006 22:23:52 GMT -5
Well, there was this one point where I couldn't help it! There were kids in every direction picking their noses! *cringes* It's not something that I stopped and stared at, but if you're glancing around a classroom to make sure they're not up to anything, you tend to notice a finger up a nose
Wheeeee, procrastination! Definitely one of my favourite pasttimes. I find I'm more productive when I'm procrastinating from something (albeit not in what I should be working on), so really, it's not all negative ;D
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Post by nancy on Feb 15, 2006 22:26:40 GMT -5
Yeah, I suppose you'd notice that... I wonder how many years from now will those kids find nose-picking gross? I helped out at a kindergarten over my summer hols, when they were still in school, and some kids picked their noses and other beat them up because of it. and yeah, procrastination is fuuun! I'm currently here on TD and on msn and on the phone and drawing... and I should be doing maths or something. You do a lot of things... how do you still have time to procrastinate?
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Post by Pkia on Feb 15, 2006 22:36:35 GMT -5
Haha, I know, I'm freakishly busy lately between school, volunteering, the necessities, and still having a social life... really, the less available time you have to actually procrastinate, the finer the skill I think it is It is productive. You can't imagine how clean my apartment gets when I have an essay due in two days ;D
I hope that they find nose-picking gross sometime within the next week because I really don't need to witness this every time I visit them
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Post by Zicdeh on Feb 15, 2006 22:38:38 GMT -5
Today i learned that saying thank you to the bus driver everytime you get off the bus makes him a whole lot more lenient when you forget your bus pass in the morning scramble one day oh yeah, and i also learned how to conjugate korean verbs in the informal form to past tense. So all in all two lessons learned today
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Post by nancy on Feb 15, 2006 22:41:26 GMT -5
my room never gets too clean... even when I have three essays due in two days... it's funny, sometimes to put off doing something for school, I do something else for school... something due in some two months or more. And sometimes I call up friends but if I have essays, so do they, and that makes me sad. They're less inclined to put off work than me. I lost my favourite sweater today. or left it at school or something... hey, this is completely off topic, but did anyone else have an uncharacteristically warm winter? Because I spent all January wearing light sweaters in the early morning or late evening, but not during the day...
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Post by Pkia on Feb 15, 2006 22:44:47 GMT -5
What I just learned today: You go to Macquarie?! I'm trying to apply for an exchange there! ;D Is it a good school (i.e. reputation-wise) in Australia? And where is it in relation to the main center of Sydny?
...Korean verbs? Oi. What made you take a B.Asian Languages?
Haha, you could perform surgery in my room And yes, it's been oddly warm here. It's fluctuating... I don't like it. I like my winters winter Where are my mounds of snow?
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Post by nancy on Feb 15, 2006 22:50:27 GMT -5
I know what you mean... I never got any snow, but still. I hate going to school prepared for the cold and getting... nothing. Then I lose my sweaters and stuff... second time I leave it somewhere this week... and it's sad. It's february and we were 31°C outside at noon...
Why is Korean a B asian language? What do you mean by B? (I wanna learn Japanese. Is that also B?)
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Post by Zicdeh on Feb 15, 2006 22:51:37 GMT -5
...Korean verbs? Oi. What made you take a B.Asian Languages?
I want to be an interpreter
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Post by Pkia on Feb 15, 2006 23:24:18 GMT -5
Hehe, I write "B. Arts" rather than "Bachelor of Arts," that's all. And... 31?!?!?!?! It doesn't even usually get that hot here in summer I hate you because I'm jealous.
You want to be an interpreter in just Korean? Or what other languages are you taking? That's hard core...
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Post by nancy on Feb 15, 2006 23:30:36 GMT -5
You're jealous?? But you have the cold!! and I live in a major heatwave! It's hot ALL OF THE TIME. We reach the mid-40's in the summer! It's.... just really hot. I dunno how else to describe it.
You at least have different seasons.
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Post by Pkia on Feb 19, 2006 16:33:06 GMT -5
Yes, that's true... I couldn't live anywhere where my seasons weren't defined.
I learned, a couple of days ago, that you can still have snowdays in university... haha, it totally made my day (and extended my reading week by an extra day, too!)
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Post by nancy on Feb 19, 2006 19:05:48 GMT -5
I learned yesterday that when an addy says "Presenting the music of Pink Floyd" it doesn't not mean Pink Floyd is coming to town, it only means Pink Floyd imitators are. It was a sad, sad lesson.
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Post by hermoine on Feb 24, 2006 10:41:48 GMT -5
I learned yesterday that when an addy says "Presenting the music of Pink Floyd" it doesn't not mean Pink Floyd is coming to town, it only means Pink Floyd imitators are. It was a sad, sad lesson. Is the group Australian by any chance nancy? Becuase if they are, they're the same group which came here last year, and the reviews for them were really great.
So what did I learn today...well I did realise that Paris has got to be one of my destinations when I go abroad. We were doing French Culture and the amount of monuments, gardens etc. is incredible.
And I actually learnt that Italian didn't start influencing Maltese from the time of the Knights of St.John but way before from the Normans' times till 1530, when the Sicilians came here. I get really annoyed at these things sometimes because all through 5 years of secondary school they had been feeding us false information. I mean what's the use? Couldn't they just have told us the plain truth from the beginning?
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