My Friday's good because I'm writing in this forum instead of working. My son and daughter came home with excellent reports so there are no problems on this front. The weather could be better but it's dry at the moment. I'm thinking of ordering pizza for lunch as I can't cook due to my urgent posting in this forum. And next week my children will be on holiday so I can spend even more time here (in between watching all those films I always wanted to watch or haven't watched often enough and, er, working) 

Weekend.
I'm going to help my daughter and her boyfriend with the move.
That means: Packing boxes, running up and down the stairs (5th floor, no elevator/lift!), painting walls (not shoot them, obviously ), laying carpet, standing on ladder, drilling holes.
Won't probably be around here for the next two days.

Sammy wrote:

Make sure to paint that smiley face on the walls, though!

Or "I believe in Sherlock"

Oh, yeah, you're right, Davina ;)
Urgh, it's so stupid and confusing with all the different school systems... I'm happy to at least know how ours works, haha :D.
Like... I never got the difference between college and university, if there is one!

In Germany Abitur is the highest qualification you can get at school. We have different school forms offering different qualifications and you need the Abitur if you want to study at a university. You sit in for the exams after 12 years at school (formerly 13 years). I think in Austria the same thing is called Matura. Maybe the Brits among us can explain about A-levels.

Every country seems to have different ways to explain the same thing.  Eton College,  in England,  is where Princes William and Harry went to school,  but  over there it's called a College,  boarding school for boys 13 to 18.  Here in America  that would be called  either  junior or High school, (depending on the grades they are in.)   or a prep/boarding school.  I get so confused.   Here in USA  a  2-year college (after high school)  is called a community college,  where you don't have to have really high marks to get into, and it's where you can earn  an Associate of Arts degree.   Then they have 4 year colleges,  and universities,  for which you have to have the right prep courses and take the SAT's,  in order to get into them. Their degrees are much higher and costlier.

A day in the life?

Last edited by sherlockskitty (July 12, 2012 1:13 am)

That sounds very nice, Dramagod. Wish you all the best for your performances.

I'll go to a translator's meeting in Cologne to see some colleagues I haven't met for a long time. We'll go to a brewery with restaurant but as I'm going to drive there by car I'll have to cut back on the beer  .

I went with my mother, it was her first time, everything was alright, but I didn't feel really well. I didn't faint, I was just dizzy. I hope it won't happen again next time : ).

Did you get a badge?

Tony would have loved it!