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Honestly, you people are lucky you only have five classes. I have six and the earliest we can eat lunch is after our third class, but there are three different lunch periods and I either get stuck with one that's too early so I'm not hungry, or too late and I'm starving and make myself sick >.< I wouldn't mind the two hour class as long as it wasn't science... *shivers* Actually, I wouldn't mind that as long as I didn't have my previous year's teacher. I think I got stupider in his class *sighs*

I don't have bookbags, or booksacks, I have, BACKPACKS!! *shrugs* Bookbag is like, something you take to church with your bible and shtuff o.o for me anyhow. Oh yes, and it's not a binder, it's a trapperkeeper >.>

I've heard backpack too, although the word "bookbag" seems to overall prevail in North Carolina. And...I've never understood the "trapperkeeper" thing. It sounds like some evil, giant cousin of the Venus-fly trap. Not something I'd want in my BOOKSACK, no sirree.

*snorts* xd suckers. I go to the same school Ex-Turk does. It's semestered 4 courses first semester, 4 courses second semester. 8 in total (9 if you take a class in the morning (like early morning gym or band afterschool.)) Each semester lasts about 15 to 18 weeks.

So lets say... (i'll take my old schedule)

period A. Anthropology - 2hr.
period B. spare (no class) - 1hr
[lunch] - 1hr
period C. Math - 1hr
period D. Drama - 1hr

That would be Monday morning's timetable. Come Tuesday, everything would switch up so it would be B, C, D, A. Then Wednesday would go back to A, B, C, D (but instead of having the extra long first period - we'd go to home room for the hour.) Thursday would be C, D, A, B and Friday D, A, B, C. Each first period class is 2hrs, save for Wednesday. This goes on for about 4 months. Then come February we get a new set of courses and everything starts all over again. gonk Our electives are included in our daily time table also, that we attend every day. And everyone has lunch at the same time o_O; and classes start beginning of September and we get out in the end of June.

How the hell do I remember which class to attend half the time? No Idea! They think we can handle it because we wear the fancy 'Academy' uniforms... XD; but we cant. I feel bad for the newbies every year...

But this makes me curious now. How are your schedules different at your schools? and more importantly how does the one at Ohtori Amsterdam work X_X;? I'm just playing it by ear - seriously.

On another note, here we say 'backpacks,' 'bookbags,' 'booksacks' everything... we use them all over here. Same with 'eraser' and 'rubber' we use both. And for soda/pop, we've combined it to 'soda pop' lol but often we'll just say 'soda' or 'pop' as an abbreviation. I've heard the 'f**'/'cigarette' one too... except people dont use that here. Toronto is a very gay-friendly city and i'm afraid to ask for a f**... you'll either A) might actually get one. Or B) get mistaken for a gay-basher and get clocked for it. XD; Unless you have a really thick British accent, I wouldn't risk it.

No worries sweatdrop I'll figure it out eventually... just correct me if I goof up.

The students have two electives. (Music and PE, Art and PE, Shop and PE, etc.) One day they have Art during that period, the other they have PE, and so on.

Okay, I know most of you know this already, but, I'm not going to be around much this week, which is sad. crying But I'm stuck, my cousin put to much pressure on me, damn him...Ack! Barentine, you, changed your outfit O.O Wow. Okay, over the shock now. Um, I don't think anyone needs Natalie, but I'll try to get on every night. See you guys later. ^^