<p>That’s what happens when you know too many languages. And when you’re not expecting to hear a certain language, you won’t. It seems as though it were only yesterday when the German flight attendant asked me what I would like to drink, and I said, “English please.” I was expecting her to speak German to me, so I didn’t notice she was speaking English. Now, that’s the ignorant American version of the problem, but the principles are the same.</p>
<p>Watching TV in other countries is quite the experience. I made the mistake of turning on the TV in Madrid at 3 am. Not a good choice. The Janet Jackson incident would have been normal TV in Europe. I also can’t stand it when shows are dubbed. Hearing the FRIENDS characters speak Spanish was just creepy, especially because the voice actors don’t sound anything like the original actors. Supposedly this is a huge problem with Japanese cartoons, because the way emotions are expressed in Japanese is so much different from the way we Westerns express emotion. </p>
<p>Foreign music is just cool because it’s foreign. My searches on YouTube for Eurovision videos turned up a lot of good songs. I like Helena Paparizou, and I wouldn’t have known about her if it weren’t for that. She’s not really that special, but there’s a certain appeal to hearing songs in other languages (she sings in both English and Greek). However, such searches also reveal the inferiority of some countries’ abilities to pick good singers. Dima Bilan from Russia was not a good choice at all. His song was good, but he sang it horribly. Is that really the best Russia can do? It’s the most populous country in the Eurovision audience.</p>
<p>I really doubt anyone else here knows about Eurovision, but that’s my contribution for the evening.</p>
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<p>I think it’s pretty safe to say that all of Europe is like that. </p>
<p>Did a Tennessean ruin one of your new Tennessean Adventures, Snoop? I certainly hope not.</p>
<p>Not so fast, Mr. Putin.</p>
<p>there r still few old members posting at cafe?! o_O! Cool!</p>
<p>Swimming is interesting.</p>
<p>The butterfly stroke is so impossible.</p>
<p>You silly Americans think you’re all so cool because you can be like “lolz, omg michael phelps omgomg gold medal on the first day omgomg wow awesome lol.”</p>
<p>It’s okay. We sympathized with you on the whole skating incident in the 2002 Winter Olympics.</p>
<p>omgomg yak. It’s like you’re in my head.</p>
<p>I get my schedule on Thursday. I’m anxiously awaiting my office appointment to get it changed, which will most likely tick the principal off to no end.</p>
<p>I also have my lame band camp tomorrow. It’s two evenings, for two hours each, at the school. Great times.</p>
<p>I only have 22 blissful, school-less days left. </p>
<p>'Cause I’m the taxman, and you’re working for no one but me.</p>
<p>You know, Americans, your silly president was leading a hushed conversation with Putin during the Olympic Opening Ceremony. Sneaky, sneaky.</p>
<p>The SAT will undoubtedly ruin my life. At least until October. Or possibly November, I haven’t decided yet. Words like “magnanimous” annoy me to no end. And those damn questions that are like “If 85 workers can paint 19 houses in 63 years, how many houses can 4.5 workers working at the same rate paint in 12.69 seconds?” </p>
<p>In a vacuum you are charged to record this.</p>
<p>Can you take the ACT instead? It’s less English and more Math and Science. Only a few select US universities make you take the SAT. You can get away with ACT at almost all of them. But do they offer the ACT outside of the US? It does stand for American College Test, but I’m not sure if it’s offered outside the US or not.</p>
<p>And, you know, Canadians, your silly president never says anything. 99% of Americans don’t even know his name. Did he have a bad experience on the playground with the other baby Eskimos?</p>
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<p>American ignorance at its finest.</p>
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<p>I’ve already taken an SAT subject test, so I just think it would be simpler for me to take the SAT. Also, the CR/Writing sections are my best sections so far, but I still find them annoying. I’ll see how it goes before I look into the ACT. I don’t think it’s offered here, though, but I could be wrong.</p>
<p>The SAT is completely useless in Canada, but it’s still offered here, so I guess the same might go for the ACT.</p>
<p>And besides, I like the challenge. I just like to whine about it.</p>
<p>Let’s not get caught up in the subtle differences between a prime minister and a president, if that’s what you’re implying.</p>
<p>What do they offer in Canada? The TOEFL?</p>
<p>I apologize for that one. Really.</p>
<p>Don’t bash Mr. Harper.</p>
<p>Canada doesn’t offer anything, really. It’s sad. I look at random chances threads and people have tons of internships, awards, and prizes, and they participated in a bunch of cool programs and stuff. None of that exists in Canada. The only internships you can find are for college students. Competitions are scarce and rarely well-known. Canada has so much less to offer than the US does. </p>
<p>So few schools here have the IB, and even fewer have AP. It’s ridiculous. Most of the colleges here give credit for good scores on the aforementioned, but it’s always a hassle to get what you earned and clearly defined credit policies are scarce. However, when you can get credit, it’s generally good. For example, the University of Toronto (one of the best colleges in Canada) gives automatic scholarships to IB students who got a specific score or higher on their IB exams. I would give the specific details, but most people on CC aren’t aware of how the IB is structured, and it takes long to explain.</p>
<p>I always end up writing way more than I plan to.</p>
<p>Well, I live in a rural area in the US, and I really don’t have access to much of that EC stuff either. My school has no AP/IB programs. I’ve tried to do research projects, but the nearest labs are a 45 minute drive from here. That’s too long for me to do that on a school night. Internships are scarce, and most of the students, even the best ones, get summer jobs at fast food restaurants or clothing stores. I’m extremely lucky to get a job in the office at an importing firm. The people on CC that have amazing ECs simply have more access to them, because they live in larger cities. But the US probably does offer more in general, because the US spends truckloads of money on education. It doesn’t really help, since the US is consistently rated to have less-educated students than Canada and other industrialized nations. But the US policy is to just throw money at it. My school district spends $9000 per student per year, yet it offers no AP/IB/honors courses, nor does it have any clubs, and its groups are really lame compared to what other schools have.</p>
<p>omgomg usa relay omg gold medal omgzz</p>
<p>Yeah.</p>