HIGH HOPES, WILD MEN AND THE DEVIL’S JAW - Willem Barentsz Kolderstok 1:50

Heinrich said:
Thank you very much Jan. I was very pleased with the teaching - the day is just long - also for the kids. (from 08H20 in the morning to 17H20in the afternoon).
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Similar to my private school in Argentina. From 7:30 AM to noon Spanish classes and 1 to 5 PM English. Same courses in 2 languages.

My 2 sons had the same regimen in Argentina ( private school). On Belgium was the same for them. At our arrival to USA they were advanced on most of the school courses. On Belgium they had 3 more languages compulsory. That was the regimen in the state school , not private.

Daniel
 
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Good morning Heinrich. It’s a joy to see you have all the uncertainty behind you and that you are setting into your teaching again with some diligent students. Already missing your build tho as I’m sure you are. Keep safe and enjoy. Cheers Grant
 
Dematosdg said:
Similar to my private school in Argentina. From 7:30 AM to noon Spanish classes and 1 to 5 PM English. Same courses in 2 languages.

My 2 sons had the same regimen in Argentina ( private school). On Belgium was the same for them. At our arrival to USA they were advanced on most of the school courses. On Belgium they had 3 more languages compulsory. That was the regimen in the state school , not private.

Daniel
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That is very interesting Daniel and what is even more interesting is the fact that your children were classified as "advanced". Hard work pays off! Thumbsup
 
GrantTyler said:
Good morning Heinrich. It’s a joy to see you have all the uncertainty behind you and that you are setting into your teaching again with some diligent students. Already missing your build tho as I’m sure you are. Keep safe and enjoy. Cheers Grant
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Thank you my friend. I am also well satisfied with how things progressed. Unfortunately though, today was a real challenge. Covid was detected in a neighboring city (Suzhou, also in Jiangsu Province). In such a case, if you then travel from Suzhou you have to declare the fact that you were there so that all the necessary tests can be done. One of the parents neglected to do this, and the whole afternoon was spent doing nuclei testing on everybody. I finally got home at half past eight tonight and the worst is that we now have to wait to hear whether the school will resume as normal tomorrow, or whether it will go into lockdown. :mad:
 
Heinrich said:
That is very interesting Daniel and what is even more interesting is the fact that your children were classified as "advanced". Hard work pays off! Thumbsup
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What happened was that in USA, when they arrived, they were a year ahead of most of the curses. They have to sit and just listen. They weren't allowed the finish a year early because the way courses are teached here didn't follow the same scheme than in Argentina and Europe. So for a few that were in synchrony they just stay and finish the high school based on age, more than in knowledge.

We had several issues with the French teacher, they started to correct her. To the point they need to be removed. Similar issues we had with Math, Geography, etc.

For them was all fun, they couldn't belive the amount of free time, as students, they had here in USA.

Just be careful. In Argentina we all went to bilingual private schools. State school are a differentstory. In Europe they went to the state school. They have compulsory to learn 3 languages. In Argentina we sent them for 1 year to a private French professor in preparation for Belguim. At our arrival to Belgium they attended a state school in Brussels, where they had to learn Dutch, Latin, French and English (Brussels has French and Dutch as official languages). They only managed well English. That was too much. 6 months later they started in a state school in Waterloo (the town of the famous battle. The school was 1 Km from that historic place). Waterloo is within the French speaking region of Belgium. So the school language was French, and then they had English and Spanish. Now it was a piece of cake for them. They were 11-12 YO at that time. 2.5 years later they landed in USA. School was a party for them here. They were soooooo happy :-) .

Cheers
Daniel
 
Thank you my friend. I am also well satisfied with how things progressed. Unfortunately though, today was a real challenge. Covid was detected in a neighboring city (Suzhou, also in Jiangsu Province). In such a case, if you then travel from Suzhou you have to declare the fact that you were there so that all the necessary tests can be done. One of the parents neglected to do this, and the whole afternoon was spent doing nuclei testing on everybody. I finally got home at half past eight tonight and the worst is that we now have to wait to hear whether the school will resume as normal tomorrow, or whether it will go into lockdown. :mad:
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Eish :(
 
Dematosdg said:
What happened was that in USA, when they arrived, they were a year ahead of most of the curses. They have to sit and just listen. They weren't allowed the finish a year early because the way courses are teached here didn't follow the same scheme than in Argentina and Europe. So for a few that were in synchrony they just stay and finish the high school based on age, more than in knowledge.

We had several issues with the French teacher, they started to correct her. To the point they need to be removed. Similar issues we had with Math, Geography, etc.

For them was all fun, they couldn't belive the amount of free time, as students, they had here in USA.

Just be careful. In Argentina we all went to bilingual private schools. State school are a differentstory. In Europe they went to the state school. They have compulsory to learn 3 languages. In Argentina we sent them for 1 year to a private French professor in preparation for Belguim. At our arrival to Belgium they attended a state school in Brussels, where they had to learn Dutch, Latin, French and English (Brussels has French and Dutch as official languages). They only managed well English. That was too much. 6 months later they started in a state school in Waterloo (the town of the famous battle. The school was 1 Km from that historic place). Waterloo is within the French speaking region of Belgium. So the school language was French, and then they had English and Spanish. Now it was a piece of cake for them. They were 11-12 YO at that time. 2.5 years later they landed in USA. School was a party for them here. They were soooooo happy :) .

Cheers
Daniel
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That is so interesting Daniel. I can well believe that they started correcting certain teachers in their respective subjects. That was something I had to do on a regular basis with my colleagues at the training school. Also, in China they make a big thing out of the IELTS examinations - basically these are examinations testing the "native" (English) proficiency of students when they want to apply to good universities or the top private schools. You will be amazed at the number of grammatical errors I have discovered in those examination papers. :eek:
 
GrantTyler said:
Eish :(
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Eish indeed my friend. What simply amazes me is the ignorance of people who believe they can get away with it. In China, you have three different types of codes on your mobile phone. Unless all three these codes are green, you are in trouble.

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This is your real-time health code. You will see that it updates by the second and shows your immediate status. If you were in Suzhou in a non-affected area, the code would have been orange and in an affected area, red.

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This is your travel code which indicates your movements and routine in China.

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This is the nucleic testing code which indicates your status after each test. As you can see, I am fine, but unless everyone's test results look like this, it doesn't really help.

So you can see that China is exceptionally well-organized and tries everything humanly possible to combat Covid. But ... as with any other system in the world, it is not infallible.
 
dockattner said:
Oh my - they would storm the capital if something like that was the regimen here. We get pretty excited about personal freedoms...

Wait...they did storm the capital. Never mind... ROTF
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I believe that, Paul ... but the rationale here is different. If everyone plays according to the rules of the game, it does not inhibit freedom, it provides you with freedom to travel safely and do what you want to do. If however, someone does not follow these rules, then freedom is inhibited. And you guessed it ... 99% of the time, the rule is broken by ... foreigners! :mad:

I find the whole concept of "freedom" so relative. In China you cannot vote, but you can gladly walk around at 12 o'clock at night in the downtown area of a city carrying your laptop and a considerable amount of cash on you without ANY fear of being mugged, assaulted or even worse ... Compare that to some western countries (no name, no pack drill) where you can vote, but at nine in the evening you make sure that all the doors are locked, the security gates and fences' electricity is switched on, the Rottweiler has gone hungry for a day, the gunsafe's keys are within reach and you sleep with one eye open.

I should know - I have experienced both.
 
Heinrich said:
I believe that, Paul ... but the rationale here is different. If everyone plays according to the rules of the game, it does not inhibit freedom, it provides you with freedom to travel safely and do what you want to do. If however, someone does not follow these rules, then freedom is inhibited. And you guessed it ... 99% of the time, the rule is broken by ... foreigners! :mad:

I find the whole concept of "freedom" so relative. In China you cannot vote, but you can gladly walk around at 12 o'clock at night in the downtown area of a city carrying your laptop and a considerable amount of cash on you without ANY fear of being mugged, assaulted or even worse ... Compare that to some western countries (no name, no pack drill) where you can vote, but at nine in the evening you make sure that all the doors are locked, the security gates and fences' electricity is switched on, the Rottweiler has gone hungry for a day, the gunsafe's keys are within reach and you sleep with one eye open.

I should know - I have experienced both.
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Freedom with rules. A very Christian concept Heinrich :).
 
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