and what ARE electives?

double curriculum - full english and full hebrew curriculum.

 

the normal subjects in english - lit/language, composition/grammar, math, science, social studies, history, like that.

 

in hebrew - bible, prophets, holy writings, hebrew lit/langauge, hebrew compostion/grammar, mishnah/talmud (though this was half in aramaic), religious law, and depending on the year, several others.

 

spanish was what i chose, could have done french, russian, japanese, chinese, or yiddish, but i took the easiest way out.

 

electives were like art and music, which weren't really electives, but... you didn't have to take them as much as the other stuff, like once or twice a week would do most years.

 

gym every two weeks becaus there wasn't time for more.

 

i could have taken other electives, and sometimes i did, like computers, and there were plenty more, usually involving community service and charitable causes, but also in job related fields of interest. i taught art to the lower grades a few years.

 

but mostly too busy to deal with more.

Edited October 15, 201113 yr by cindy

good lord! I have nothing to say about that, the workload must ave been TERRIBLE

in South Africa you have to do Maths/maths lit (maths lit is basically grade four maths all about multiplying numbers with percentages)

you have to do a first and second language

then you do three chosen subjects, history, geography, science, biology etc

then if you want you can do extra chosen subjects or ADMaths (above curriculum)

the workload was tremendous... and did not instill a desire to work very much in college, or ever afterward, tbh. maybe it did for some people, but it just broke me. i was way too relieved to escape and make up for lost time. i think some of my classmates had the same problems, but most went on to do very well in life.

that sounds much more reasonable, smiley, and quite enough for young people with lives to lead.

I do:

Maths

English

Afrikaans

 

Science

Biology

IT (Information Technology - programming, basically)

 

Then I do French extra and ADMaths in maths lessons (essentially first set maths learns admaths in addition to normal maths in classtime)

are you in high school or uni? and what do you grow up to be, do you think?

high school

well that's more than enough for high school. it's good you like it.

and I'm planning to be a doctor, and I want to specialise but I really don't know where yet

apparently if I learn in SA then I have to learn a year of Xhosa at university as well

Good work.

ive put in a page im proud of some constant if not speedy work

now, that will be a lot of work. good luck with it, smiley.

yeah I know but once its done I'll always have a job, people always want more doctors

well, yeah. the problem in the US now is that... it costs a lot to become a doctor, and with the way medicine is changing... becoming much... crappier... they're not making the money they should to recoup the cost of the education. but, still. worthwhile and noble profession.

You can come working in Sweden. We haven´t got enough doctors.

Hmm. We still haven't made it. Is Ley not around at the moment?

Hey Tina, What's that I saw about getting a dish-washer. Putting me out of work?

Oh no! It´s just that you usually disappears when day breaks...

Hmm. We still haven't made it. Is Ley not around at the moment?

 

Here I am. I will see what I can do later this evening. It should be easy. Only 250 posts. With our 6.7/minute rate, it'd take 37.5 minutes.

That's because I'm the Santa(or is that Sancho) of dishwashing.

We are sooo close to hitting 10%!!!!!!!

All those excuses...

 

Dear Santa,

 

we ate Rudolf. Are you mad at us?