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  1. We managed to do it this time - DS has qualified for round 2 in both. I'm not sure if we'll organise a proctor or not... will see who might be around during the testing window.
  2. woolworths? I went too far upmarket with Ballantyne :-)... I don't know what Maceys is. Farmers would be the other one, but I'm going to go Woolworths.
  3. *googles* ohh, in Dunedin. That's only 6 hours from here... we can meet you!
  4. we have seals, penguins, kiwi, kakapo (the aforementioned kleptomaniac parrots). Our wildlife is kind of cool. And none of it wants you dead.
  5. Ballantyne? Yeah, don't sit on the desk. Or the pillows.
  6. you clearly didn't go to an All Blacks game. chicken has got cheaper lately :-) NZ is small. Some people hate that and some like it. There's a REALLY good chance someone who knows someone who knows you is not too far awy at any given moment. I have never had fried lettuce in a hamburger. Earthquakes suck. Christchurch is recovering, but you'll still see half of us tense up at a loud truck. International shipping sucks immensely Tall poppy crushing is a national passtime The "big OE" (overseas experience) is a rite of passage. Most of us come back though. Flights are expensive. Whittakers chocolate = big plus Kai moana (sea food) is readily available because you are never more than an hour or so from a beach. Nothing is very far away from anything else. "Rush hour" is laughable by most other country's standards. Sport's pretty popular here, especially in schools. Better to be the start full back than the chemistry wiz in most cases. Learn your rugby teams and you'll be right. I'm told we're a cultural wasteland by a US immigrant who was NOT staying more than 6 months, and is still here 5 years later. We grow on you :-) I think she's a bit rough on us on the arts front. We don't do central heating, or insulation like you might be used to. Cold? Stick on another jersey. I say this as a kiwi sitting in my lounge watching a movie with my family - I have a blanket, so does one child, the other one is in his dressing gown (over clothes) and the husband has jersey and slippers on. It's not coled enough to light the fire, honest. Our politics are different to yours. As are our views on guns. We don't have snakes. No snakes. None. Not even in the zoo. No animals in our forests can kill you. Well, a kakapo might steal your windscreen wipers, causing you to drive off a mountain. We're a pretty accepting bunch... except when we're not. I hear both from US friends. We are small Very small. that's good and bad.
  7. come on over, there's a 4 bedroom place for sale a few doors down :-)
  8. k cups 38carrots's house stroller barger the troll with the mansion was right when I was new here I think the escaped / missing snake still sticks in my mind. I think the ownder had to carry the chihuahua until it was found. Snake free country here... mind blown. a couple of sad ones or ones where the poster was in a difficult situation spring to mind too, but hopefully they've been dealt with or moved on from by now so I won't drag them up again.
  9. erm. Would she be ok with the triple breasted whore of Eroticon 6, whose erogenous zones, it is said, start 4 miles from her body? It's just a passing reference.
  10. my DD has fallen in love with Moby Dick after reading a graphic novel version a few years ago. Since then she has read several abridged version and recently sat down to the full text. She made it, but I think only because she knew and loved the story so much. I notice she has gone back to the abridged versions, and her beloved graphic novel since. I'm sure she didn't get even half of what's in there out of it, but there's nothing in there I'm concerned about her reading.
  11. :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: I'm dreading this day for our own fur-friend.
  12. from their Ts and Cs which you can only see once you are registered and can log in (sigh). I assume it's the same for Aus.
  13. Homeschooled students ARE eligible.. we have 8 of them in this house. They have to be supervised by an independenet, registered teacher who signs a declaration that it's all legit.
  14. oh no, what a hassle! I hope you can sort it. I hope your daughter enjoys her time here... I'm in Christchurch if she needs anything.
  15. I'd always thought prealg looked more like year 9 and some of year 10 maths - but I don't know for sure, that was just my "feeling" looking at them, and it's hard to compare the two because we don't do the separation of the strands like the US does, so some stuff we cover much earlier, and other stuff we cover later. Can you just pretest him on what you want to use and go from there? During our (mercifully brief) time at school I sent DS (year 4 by age) to his year 5 class with Algebra 1 for some no instruction needed review during class maths time and they threw up their hands in despair and said we can't teach him maths and don't think any primary school could... that was a little depressing, lol!
  16. yeeeeeeeeeeeeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! Well done!!!!!!!!!!! :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray:
  17. :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:
  18. I host our local homeschool community for ICAS - I invite entries and then supervise them in my home (I'm registered teacher). I have to have my own kids do them under someone else's supervision for their scores to be counted though, which WAS fine, because another homeschool mum was also a registered teacher so we supervised together and she did my kids and I did hers. Unfortunately she has moved on and no other homeschooling parents have answered my plea, so this year I will be supervising other people's children while they do it, and sending my own kids to a school with their papers to do theirs (the school is where a friend works, so they're good with that). It's worth it for us to do the supervision properly though, because both kids have won multiple medals so far, and I'd hate for them to have them invalidated because the supervision wasn't done properly. Both of mine do them a year ahead of their level if they were at school - DD because she is on the cut off anyway, and going younger doesn't make sense for her and DS because I entered him for the experience a year too young, intending to do that level again "properly" the next year but he medalled, so we couldn't really repeat! It's not even remotely close to the level either of them are actually working at, but there is still enough to challenge them, and it's GREAT for showing them that "check your work" isn't just something I say because I feel like it, lol! Silly mistakes have cost DS at least two medals, possibly another one or two - and I'm talking mistakes he recognised as soon as he looked at the paper.
  19. My son memorised the countries song when he was 3 or 4. SO stupidly cute.
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