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Sarah Elizabeth
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Apr 23, 2017 07:48AM
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Hey everyone! Whose participating this month?
I'm not sure how much reading I will get in, but I will be reading. :)
Same, I don't have any major plans this month. I'm too tied up with school ATM.
Finals? No, I don't. Is that an American thing?
Oh, I guess so. I guess I had never thought of that. It's just all the last tests at the end of the semester/term.
Oh! Okay. Sorry. No, I don't have them because in Australia our school years follow the actual calendar year - not around the summer months like America + the UK - so I've actually just started my second term for the year.
Thanks for asking though. I love seeing how different everyone's school systems are! You'd think Australia would be similar to the US but we're really not, haha.
Oh, so you have year round school then? And just have breaks throughout?
And I really, really want to visit Australia!
Yeah, so we get a Christmas holiday from about mid-December to mid-January and start our school year in late Jan and then finish the school year in December. We have four terms throughout the year which are ten to twelve weeks long - depends on your state - and two weeks break between them. I know it is incredibly biased of me to say this but it just makes so much more sense to me to have a school year within the actual year, you know? I don't understand the need to have one school year over the course of two years...? Anyway, you should definitely visit!
Not much about the way schools are run makes a lot of sense, really. Haha. I teach at a college, so I can say that. :pIt's one of my goals! Now I just have to make it happen! Flights to Australia are expensive, and long!
Oh, that's cool. I'm a first year uni student myself, and from my reading experience, I can attest that American 'colleges' are quite different from Aussie unis - and not in a good way, haha. Yeah, I know. It sucks. It why most of us don't travel internationally! You should def come down to SA if you make it over.
