<p>i love hockey and swimming ;)</p>
<p>How do you guys manage to play all those sports ? Do you have an american-like kind of schedule ? Because I, here in Belgium, start school at 8 am and finish almost everyday around 6 pm (no hours dedicated to sports included), I can only manage to deal with one sport (in a club, since nothing extra-curricular like is provided by my school) - which is basketball, btw -. Or do you also count as “sports I practice” the ones you do when you’ve got free times ?</p>
<p>What’s an American type of schedule?</p>
<p>It’s the type of schedule where you don’t have to have a full day of school. At least not school classes. When I was in California, I’ve seen bunch of kids ending their school day at 2 p.m (before going back for extra-curricular stuff, like running, football, and so forth)(even kids in kindergarten came back around noon…).
I remember how amazed I was when I saw my cousin schedule (I don’t remember the exact term, but I’m talking about that paper where you write all your classes you take during the week). I was conditionned by the European way of thinking, meaning we don’t have to choose our classes, nor the number of courses we actually take. Eventually, they will give us the choice of one or two subjects, but that’s pretty much it. So almost everyone in my school ends his day the same hour (4 to 5 p.m). I also remember how surprised I was to see that his football practice was actually listed as a real class. We don’t get to see those kinds of things around here.</p>
<p>That’s what I mean by “American type of schedule”. And I don’t understand how, without having one of those kind of schedule, would one be able to deal with all the sports I read in the previous entries…</p>
<p>My school day ends at 2, but I can’t choose my classes. So it’s a hybrid of sorts :)</p>
<p>Same here. My school begins at 6 in the morning and ends at around 2 and the school offers almost no extracurricular activities. However one could join some other organizations to keep oneself busy after the school.</p>
<p>It doesn’t mean you need to constantly practice those sports…what about weekends and stuff…The question was not on playing sport professionally…we’re just talking about spending leisure time.Therefore,“,you don’t need an American Schedule”!;)</p>
<p>smartchap > oh okay, allright. So the sports you’re listing here aren’t necesserily the ones you’ll put on the “extra-curricular” activites on your application form ?</p>
<p>Tennis I play very competitively, football and basketball are the ones I’m on the school team for.</p>
<p>I’ve been running for four years, lol… but I never competed in anything major, as I moved house, away from my athletics club. I wish I’d realised what a hook it would’ve been, though. :/</p>
<p>Hi guys!
Back from Hibernation…so what’s going on?(too lazy to dig older posts!)</p>
<p>Nothing much. I’m working, they’re working, and in between that we’re all wasting time here when we should be working :D.</p>
<p>How’d the SATs go for those of you who gave it in May? Scores are out today, right?</p>
<p>Yup they are. Mine are pretty lame (<1800), didn’t think it went that bad, what about yours ?</p>
<p>800 for me :)</p>
<p>800 ? you mean 2400 or ?</p>
<p>Chem right tetris? Congrats — not that I’m surprised in the least! Please don’t make a chance thread, it might demoralize me completely :D</p>
<p>Thanks Quasi! And no, I’m not really into these chance threads</p>
<p>Gratz! 
Chem’s meant to be one of the harder Subject Tests.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Really? It was relatively easy compared to the chem we study here at school. One of the perks of the Indian system :p</p>