I have no idea, actually. I'm honestly a bit lacking on the creative side to be coaching, I think, but maybe I could evaluate. Also depends where in the world I'll be going to college, because I really don't want to stay in New Zealand, and if I ended up in, say, London, I wouldn't have any idea where the FPS would be. I know there are the equivalent of sophomores evaluating lower teams, even though I don't think we're exactly short. There are also sophomores, juniors and seniors helping coach CmPS and FPS around the country, they mentioned it at the Nationals prizegiving last year.
Yeah, I know here in Ohio competitors can help coach for younger divisions, because we had talked about having my team and I "assistant coach" middle school kids to try and get FPS restarted there (the gifted program was cut), but our coach left the district and that probably won't happen now.
College in London would be amazing. I love London. :)
Yeah, college in London is where I'm aiming for. No idea what I'm going to really study yet, but still, it sounds like an amazing place. Plus I have a Brit passport(even though I've never been there!) so that's a double bonus. And I'd travel all around Europe at the same time. ^_^
I've been to Europe once, for a few weeks last summer with a school group (but not school affiliated, if that makes any sense), and it was the best experience of my life. We visited England, France, Switzerland, and Italy, and it makes me want to go back all the more. I plan to study abroad, and I'd like to do it for a full year, not just a semester. The university I want to go to, Miami University (NOT in Florida!), has a program based in a chateau in Luxembourg, and I think I might like to study there. You stay with actual host families, and I think that's a much cooler experience than a dorm. And besides, Luxembourg's centralized location makes it easy to buy a Euro Rail pass and hop to Paris or wherever. :)
Lucky; I really really want to go to Europe. I want to tour it sometime. My dream would be to do a degree at Oxbridge, they're both such brilliant universities. Or well, I wouldn't mind some of the unis in America either, but I think I prefer England.
Chateau in Luxembourg? Wow, you have me intersted. XD What are you planning to study?
I think I'm going to study English Education. I love English, and since I was little being a teacher has always been somewhere on my list of "things to be when I grow up." I've been fortunate to have a lot of good teachers and a couple really, really excellent ones that have had and are having such an impact on my life, and I want to be able to be that person for someone else. I'm definitely an idealist -- not a naieve (did I spell that right? argh, i'm still sleepy!) one, but I know I'm constantly looking for the good in myself and in other people, and I want to help people find that. Life's not always like that, but whatever I end up doing, I need to have a career where I can find a purpose
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Hah, I used to want to be a teacher when I was little. My mother put me off by saying that little kids vomited all the time and were very naughty. That was before I knew there was such a thing as high school. ^_^''
Good on you for wanting to be a teacher. I just don't think I have enough patience to be one. And I think I'm far too critical. Much as I'd like to help others in some way as well, I don't think that's the right way to go for me.
I'm going all googly-eyed at the pictures. That place looks amazing!
And yeah, I know what you mean with the studying abroad thing -- I think I want to do senior year in Denmark if I can finagle it (I was going to schedule a meeting with my couselor today but I forgot, so I'll have to remember Monday), apply to colleges both in the States and abroad, do a semester or two in maybe Australia or Spain or somewhere interesting like that, do grad school in some huge sity somewhere, then go off and do random cool stuff to do with linguistics until some university will hire me to be a professor, and I might take a year or two off in there -- Peace Corps of somethine would be teh r0x0r.
Basically: Spend much time abroad while doing things I can potentially get scholarships for and/or take on a job during.
I'm Chinese - from Hong Kong, to be precise. Used to be a British colony, handed back to China in '97. Before '97 they had a certain quota passports they'd give out each year, to those who applied. It was a huge process, because these passports are so great - no visa travelling anywhere in Europe and pretty much the same rights as citizens there - but our family managed to get them.
Travelling everywhere to study would be neat. So are scholarships. Problem with living at the corner of the world is that there aren't as many opportunities. Coupled with the fiasco and controversy of our new exam system, studying abroad is going to be even more difficult. It's just that much harder to get into Oxbridge and all the good American Unis when you're stuck here.
Yep. Instead of the usual percentage system, we now have something called NCEA - National Certificate of Educational Achievement. It's really really complicatedm, so long explanation coming up
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What is uni selection like in NZ? I mean, are there really good ones there or is it common to go overseas?
I'm wrestling with college choices this year, and there are schools in the east here that it would be a dream for me to go to -- Bryn Mawr, U. of Penn, Columbia, NYU, Barnard -- but financially I really should stay in Ohio. There is one school here that I really love, Miami U, here, so it's not like I'd end up somewhere I hate, not at all, but it makes me a little sad.
But "it's not where you go, it's what you make of it!" :)
Honestly, it doesn't seem extremely hard from what I've heard. Again, the problem is really the new exam system. Because the marks are so strange and aren't actually all that good an indicator of your level, there are some subjects, such as medicine, where there is no direct entrance now. Instead there's a common year which you do, and then selection is made at the end of that year. It's extremely frustrating, and people are ending up having to do an extra year, or in some cases wasting a year.
It's really standard to get into a university here, I think. It's just that our qualifications just don't hold the same aura as something like, say, the Cambridge examinations, IB, or SATs/APs, so all the schools overseas are a bit wary. And this new system really isn't helping.
If you did it in London, you'd have to affiliate with someone else, fly your kids to their Bowl, etc. -- apparently when my friend's sister went IC there were "hot British guys" but by the time I went we had to make do with Floridians and Australians.
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College in London would be amazing. I love London. :)
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Yeah, college in London is where I'm aiming for. No idea what I'm going to really study yet, but still, it sounds like an amazing place. Plus I have a Brit passport(even though I've never been there!) so that's a double bonus. And I'd travel all around Europe at the same time. ^_^
But anyway.
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Chateau in Luxembourg? Wow, you have me intersted. XD What are you planning to study?
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Good on you for wanting to be a teacher. I just don't think I have enough patience to be one. And I think I'm far too critical. Much as I'd like to help others in some way as well, I don't think that's the right way to go for me.
I'm going all googly-eyed at the pictures. That place looks amazing!
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And yeah, I know what you mean with the studying abroad thing -- I think I want to do senior year in Denmark if I can finagle it (I was going to schedule a meeting with my couselor today but I forgot, so I'll have to remember Monday), apply to colleges both in the States and abroad, do a semester or two in maybe Australia or Spain or somewhere interesting like that, do grad school in some huge sity somewhere, then go off and do random cool stuff to do with linguistics until some university will hire me to be a professor, and I might take a year or two off in there -- Peace Corps of somethine would be teh r0x0r.
Basically: Spend much time abroad while doing things I can potentially get scholarships for and/or take on a job during.
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Travelling everywhere to study would be neat. So are scholarships. Problem with living at the corner of the world is that there aren't as many opportunities. Coupled with the fiasco and controversy of our new exam system, studying abroad is going to be even more difficult. It's just that much harder to get into Oxbridge and all the good American Unis when you're stuck here.
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New exam system? *curious*
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I'm wrestling with college choices this year, and there are schools in the east here that it would be a dream for me to go to -- Bryn Mawr, U. of Penn, Columbia, NYU, Barnard -- but financially I really should stay in Ohio. There is one school here that I really love, Miami U, here, so it's not like I'd end up somewhere I hate, not at all, but it makes me a little sad.
But "it's not where you go, it's what you make of it!" :)
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It's really standard to get into a university here, I think. It's just that our qualifications just don't hold the same aura as something like, say, the Cambridge examinations, IB, or SATs/APs, so all the schools overseas are a bit wary. And this new system really isn't helping.
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