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YoUr mEmOrIeS #1 (permalink) Thu May 10, 2007 12:19 pm   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

hi all Very Happy

Shocked i was thinking about what im going to talk about Wink . While i was thinking i remember my school, friends and teachers. I left the school nearly 3 years ago Rolling Eyes but i still have my school memories. so i want to know your school memories Arrow

tell us about your teachers and friends and what ever you want to add about your school days Wink

((if there is any mistakes please corect them)) Shocked
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YoUr mEmOrIeS #2 (permalink) Sun May 20, 2007 10:42 am   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

Frankly speaking, my recollections pertaining to my school years are not so deep and vivid. I was a straight A student and my efforts were directed exclusively towards obtaining a good education. But I miss badly all my coursemates and lectures with whom I spent many unforgettable moments. It has already become a tradition to meet every year and share the events or news coming up in our lives.

P.S. Personal pronoun I should be capitalised.
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YoUr mEmOrIeS #3 (permalink) Sun May 20, 2007 11:13 am   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

I had a German teacher from Holland who had a very heavy Dutch accent when she spoke both English and German. The problem was that she couldn't hear it and didn't know she had this accent. She used to insist we imitate her own German pronunciation, which was horrible. When our pronunciation came out sounding like hers, she could hear that it was bad, and she made us stay after school and listen to tapes to improve our pronunciation. However, she would still insist we imitate her. The trick to ending your detention was to realize that she didn't sound like the Germans on the tapes, and to imitate those Germans and not her. Then she would hear that your German sounded good, and she figured she'd succeeded in teaching us to pronounce (like her), so you didn't have to stay after school anymore.
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YoUr mEmOrIeS #4 (permalink) Sun May 20, 2007 11:21 am   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

Hi Jamie,

I wonder why your teacher thought it was so very important to speak German with a German accent. Do you speak German with a foreign accent or do you sound like a native speaker from Germany (or another German-speaking country)?

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YoUr mEmOrIeS #5 (permalink) Sun May 20, 2007 11:35 am   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

I am unable to explain but when I read texts In German, my teacher used to say that I sounded like a native speaker. That was one of the main incentives to study German in earnest.
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YoUr mEmOrIeS #6 (permalink) Sun May 20, 2007 11:47 am   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

I am said to speak German with no discernible foreign accent, and before I make a grammar mistake strangers usually think I'm a native German. Some German lady told me that the measure of this was that when I ask how to perform some ordinary task in Germany that is done differently in the US, Germans often treat me as stupid and ignore me, rather than treating me like a confused tourist and helping me. Sometimes when I ask the meaning of a simple word that I don't know, Germans don't realize what I'm asking, and they answer some more complex question that I didn't ask. They don't understand that I don't have the complete German vocabulary that natives have. Sometimes they expect me to know all the quotations from Goethe and other authors that Germans learn in school.

My teacher thought it was important to speak German with a German accent for the simple reason that when one speaks a foreign language, it's important to sound as good as possible. Besides that, people who speak German with bad American accents accidentally say some very embarrassing things. Instead of saying, "my name is...," they say, "I'm sh*tting." When they want to say the weather is muggy, they accidentally say that the weather is homosexual.
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YoUr mEmOrIeS #7 (permalink) Sun May 20, 2007 12:26 pm   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

Hi Dream,

Now that I have started working, I miss school/college. It was so much more fun!I was an active student, head prefect of my school, the school co-op president and held several other positions.I had extra responsibilities and I always used the chemistry period to attend to things that need my attention immediately...(I hated chemistry back then).There are a lot of good memories, but the most unforgettable one is the one when I fought with my headmaster. He was very angry at me for changing his orders that he spat in front of me.He was not very nice to me for months.I know I was wrong in a way(defying him) but I was very young and stubborn.But he made me stronger and I am quite proud of myself for not crying when he was yelling at me on top of his lungs.I think it was good for me.Luckily I didn't get expelled from school!

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YoUr mEmOrIeS #8 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 0:25 am   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

it's been 2 years now since i've finished school
but i can still remember those great days
and the great memories keeps coming back to me every now and then
the school days were the best ever
we used to have a lot of fun and laugh so much
i really miss my friends.
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YoUr mEmOrIeS #9 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 7:30 am   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

HI

It seems all of you have happily gone through your school period. Very Happy But I'm still learning and fighting tool and nail against dowziness in the class. Laughing Maybe I'm going to have school memories as you all do if I graduate. I find school and friends so much fun too despite some undescribeable feeling about themselves. However, I should treasure all these moments Laughing and one day try to miss them. Laughing
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YoUr mEmOrIeS #10 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 10:48 am   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

I had a VERY OLD biology teacher who had been teaching at my school since dirt was new. She used to call us by the wrong name by mistake -- not just any name, but always the names of our parents, aunts and uncles or cousins who'd been in her class 25 years before. She used to tell us a lot of strange things, and we couldn't be sure if she was crazy or had an interesting sense of humor. But we did learn a lot from her.

At some point during the year, we were supposed to have a guest lecture by a famous geneticist from one of the universities in town. I'll call him Dr. Yamashita, which is not his real name. EVERY DAY, this teacher would tell us, "Class in (x) days we are going to have a visit from Dr. Yamashita, who will give us a lecture on chromosomal abnormalities." Then she'd get a very serious look on her face and exclaim, "Now Dr. Yamashita is AN ORIENTAL! And Orientals are VERY POLITE! So I want you to be VERY POLITE to Dr. Yamashita when he comes!" She was very worried that we would be rude and insult this very courtly man from the East. Well, the big day came, and we were all taken into the auditorium to listen to Dr. "Yamashita". A Japanese-looking man came on stage, and greeted us, "Hi, everybody! I'm happy to be here!" and he continued to talk. He had no foreign accent at all, and his facial expressions and body movements were completely American. He was a 100%, red-white-and-blue American, and his family had probably been here since the 1850s! Even he probably had to worry about behaving well in front of "Orientals".
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YoUr mEmOrIeS #11 (permalink) Thu May 31, 2007 15:18 pm   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

I can still remember the taste of the food we were given for lunch at my elementary school (kindergarten-8th grade).

Especially vivid (in my memory) are the pizza, tacos and lasagna -- i can still taste them, or at least I think I can.
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YoUr mEmOrIeS #12 (permalink) Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:09 am   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

When i was in university i had ever told to one of my friends who was also my classmate that i would like to stay on campus forever beacause i really like the campus atmosphere. Students were so lively and life was so relaxed. What I needed to do was just going to class and staying together with my friends.If i felt exausted or bored i even skipped classes and did something i liked to do.
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YoUr mEmOrIeS #13 (permalink) Sat Jun 09, 2007 23:43 pm   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

prezbucky wrote:
I can still remember the taste of the food we were given for lunch at my elementary school (kindergarten-8th grade).

Especially vivid (in my memory) are the pizza, tacos and lasagna -- i can still taste them, or at least I think I can.


Some of my early school (or rather nursery) memories are also associated with food, particularly and curiously with the dishes I didn’t like – polenta, creamed spinach with a fried (or was it poached?) egg on top or semolina pudding. The Italian girl sitting next to me adored spinach, so she would get mine in exchange for her dessert. I also remember babies being fed on high chairs, their mouths smeared with tomato sauce from the macaroni.

I had such a happy time at the ‘garderie’ that when it was time for me to leave the place, I was almost devastated. To this day, though, I remember how gently and tactfully one of the staff explained to me that, now that I was a big girl of five, I could already go to the ‘?cole enfantine’ (kindergarten) and wasn’t I the lucky one. Of course, I didn’t share her enthusiasm.
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YoUr mEmOrIeS #14 (permalink) Tue Jun 12, 2007 18:13 pm   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

Conchita

You spent your early years in France?

Cool. Thanks for sharing.
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YoUr mEmOrIeS #15 (permalink) Tue Jun 12, 2007 22:48 pm   YoUr mEmOrIeS
 

prezbucky wrote:
Conchita

You spent your early years in France?


Next to it: I grew up in Switzerland, more precisely in Lausanne, on the banks of Lake Geneva.
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