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Subject: Re: School Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:22 pm

Yes, isn't it just?
So, in an attempt to get back on topic, whats the school year like for you?
When does the school year start? when does it end? What are the breaks that you get?

Subject: Re: School Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:22 am

The school year starts at the end of January, usually the 30th or 29th. And we get 8-11 week terms... i think first term was 11 weeks, this term is 9 weeks and i'm not sure about the rest haha. We have 2 week holidays at the end of term 1 and 3 and i think its 3 weeks at the end of term 2.. i'm not sure though haha. you'd think i know this

And then when term 4 ends which is 2 weeks before christmas, we have around 2 months of holidays. something like that. Razz

Subject: Re: School Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:00 am

Well, our school year starts at early February and ends at late December >_<

We have 2 weeks holiday after every end of term.

At school, we have two breaks; the lunch lasts for an hour Smile

Subject: Re: School Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:43 am

Wow! Your school year is so different from mine!
My school starts in early September. We get one winter break for two weeks near Christmas, and then one one-two week break (it varies) in spring, near easter. Our school year ends in the middle of June, and we have a three month break until September!

Subject: Re: School Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:49 pm

3 months???
:O

Well, in Philippines, school year starts at June and ends in March...If I remember correctly. :S
And we used to have a break from late December to early January, for New Year's.

And at school, there's three breaks Smile

Subject: Re: School Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:27 pm

Do you get off for national holidays as well?

Subject: Re: School Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:38 am

Yeah i think ours is basically the same as NZ's holidays.. except that i think its a week different or something. But wait- what? You have an hour of lunch! We only have 40min! Which i guess is only 20min difference but you know

Ooo the Philippines holidays sounds appealing!! Very Happy

:D

One week of holidays? That'd be a sucky holiday

Subject: Re: School Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:11 am

I've got a 45 minute lunch... but a 15 minute break for snack early in the day...

Subject: Re: School Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:13 pm

Well, in Philippines, at the end of the year, there's two months holiday. Smile

Subject: Re: School Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:28 pm

Two months? Wow, that would be great!

Subject: Re: School Sat Jun 14, 2008 2:06 am

Yeah, but we don't get holidays at end of every term...I think. I'm sorry, I have very bad memory :S

In Philippines, we called them 'Quarters'

Subject: Re: School Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:06 am

We do get a holiday after each term, but it is only for two weeks.

Subject: Re: School Sun Jun 15, 2008 2:12 am

Yes, but two weeks is better than nothing, yes?

Subject: Re: School Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:16 am

[size=9Quarters is a logical name, we have 4 terms.. as quarters of the year. Razz

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Subject: Re: School Sun Jun 15, 2008 5:00 am

Yes it would. Another synonym for that is...Semesters, right?

Subject: Re: School Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:42 pm

We have 'trimesters' which is when the year is split into three rather then four...

Subject: Re: School Sun Jun 15, 2008 8:34 pm

thats diffrent to any thing ive heard

Subject: Re: School Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:44 am

No.. semesters are different. There are 3 semesters in a year and 4 terms. we have semesters too but we dont really use the word that much.
oh.. lol now im confused

How many is a semester?

Subject: Re: School Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:39 am

I have no idea...I've never even heard of 'trimesters' until now :S

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I have, but when you read it, it looks like Trime Sters.

Subject: Re: School Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:21 am

It does, doesn't it?

But I think semester is like 4 terms...Maybe?

Subject: Re: School Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:41 am

I don't know.. i always thought at school when they said Semester 3, i don't ever remember anyone saying semester 4, so i always assumed there were only 3 semesters in a year. I'm probably wrong though.
the trime-sters! lol

sounds like troublemakers or something

Subject: Re: School Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:49 am

It does!!!

((I never notice these things

))

Maybe last semester, instead of semester 4??

Subject: Re: School Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:32 am

Hmm.. maybe so? lol

that sounds so right now that i think about it!!!

Hahaha i don't notice things either! I had the same history teacher for 2 years and at the end of the second one my friend goes "her lisp annoys me so much!"
Me:.... EH?

SHE HAS A LISP?! I NEVER NOTICED!!

i laughed .. and now that someone's told me she has a lisp, i've noticed it more

Do you ever get that? When people say "don't look at my pimple, it's huge and ugly"... you notice it more? I wouldn't have noticed it if the person hadn't have told me that it was there

Subject: Re: School Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:15 pm

Trimesters = three sections
Semesters = four sections

The only reason my school has trimesters instead of Semesters is probably because of our summer vacation. The length of our summer vacation is just about the length of one semester, so we really only have three out of four semesters in the year.

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