Hamburger, hotdog?
So I'm reading something about how Graham Norton would rather live alone rather than with someone who folds towels the wrong way (which I totally get, btw), and in the comments on the ONTD page, a couple of people mention folding towels by "hamburger" and "hotdog".
Can an American please explain what this means? I have no idea how you fold a hamburger or a hotdog... a hamburger to me has two buns so it goes bun, patty, bun. There's no patty in a towel and it comes in one piece, so how does this work? And a hot dog bun is a roll with a split in it and you put the "dog" inside the bun, so the visual I'm getting from this is shoving half the towel inside itself... makes NO SENSE.
Anyhoo, if anyone out there understands this hamburger and hotdog folding system, I would be grateful. And no, I am not googling it, because knowing my luck I will get pictures of all sorts of crazy stuff, and I am at the orifice, so NO!
Now, not to put anyone down, because heaven knows we're all different, but it does amuse me that so very often I read American things online that imply EVERYONE will understand what the heck they are talking about, when so very often it's completely mystifying to those of us who haven't lived in America for longer than a few months, or it somehow hasn't been assimilated into our being through watching American TV for longer than we attended school...
Incidentally, in NZ we go to school for 13 years, from the age of 5 (the day we turn 5 we can start school. We don't wait for the start of a year or anything like that; we go on our 5th BIRTHDAY for the first time, if it's a weekday and not a school holiday, although the law says we don't have to start until we're 6. Very few people in NZ wait till then, though) until approximately 18. The law says we can leave at 16 or older, so some do leave in Year 11 or 12, but before 16 it's called truancy and your parents can get in trouble for allowing it.
We go to PRIMARY SCHOOL for the first six years called Years 1 to 6, and Kindergarten is a pre-school for 3 to 4 year olds. Then there's INTERMEDIATE (although some Primary schools go up to Year 8 and those kids go straight to High school after) for two years, and finally HIGH SCHOOL, or if your school is called "Wherever/Whatever" College (as many are), then you will call it COLLEGE, and not just to confuse the heck out of Americans! HIGH SCHOOL/COLLEGE from Year 9 to 13 calls the kids 'Juniors' in Years 9 & 10, and 'Seniors' in Years 11 to 13.
From there, we go to UNIVERSITY if we can afford it, fondly known as UNI, or previously and not so commonly these days, called VARSITY.
There are FOUR school terms a year, and they go like this: Term 1 is approximately February to April, Term 2 is April to July, Term 3 is July to October and Term 4 is October to December. Most holidays are for two weeks in between terms, except for the Christmas holidays at the end of the year, which are six weeks for primary and intermediate, and 1 to 2 weeks longer for high school/college, and depending on whether you're juniors (shorter holidays, as no major exams at year end) or seniors (longer holidays, as school is basically done in early November and you only go in for exams; you're expected to study otherwise, and once exams are over, you are DONE. Thus 'prize-giving' (rather than Graduation) occurs before the exams start.
Exams are towards NCEA (National Certificate of Educational Achievement) in Levels 1, 2 and 3 over your three years of senior high school (and you can earn points as well for NCEA during the year doing coursework assignments and such, or if you do a subject that doesn't have an exam such as Art); or in some schools they have a system called 'Cambridge', which is based on the British version of school and exams.
And that is your education on basic Kiwi schooling for today. *gets down off soapbox and shuts up*
Can an American please explain what this means? I have no idea how you fold a hamburger or a hotdog... a hamburger to me has two buns so it goes bun, patty, bun. There's no patty in a towel and it comes in one piece, so how does this work? And a hot dog bun is a roll with a split in it and you put the "dog" inside the bun, so the visual I'm getting from this is shoving half the towel inside itself... makes NO SENSE.
Anyhoo, if anyone out there understands this hamburger and hotdog folding system, I would be grateful. And no, I am not googling it, because knowing my luck I will get pictures of all sorts of crazy stuff, and I am at the orifice, so NO!
Now, not to put anyone down, because heaven knows we're all different, but it does amuse me that so very often I read American things online that imply EVERYONE will understand what the heck they are talking about, when so very often it's completely mystifying to those of us who haven't lived in America for longer than a few months, or it somehow hasn't been assimilated into our being through watching American TV for longer than we attended school...
Incidentally, in NZ we go to school for 13 years, from the age of 5 (the day we turn 5 we can start school. We don't wait for the start of a year or anything like that; we go on our 5th BIRTHDAY for the first time, if it's a weekday and not a school holiday, although the law says we don't have to start until we're 6. Very few people in NZ wait till then, though) until approximately 18. The law says we can leave at 16 or older, so some do leave in Year 11 or 12, but before 16 it's called truancy and your parents can get in trouble for allowing it.
We go to PRIMARY SCHOOL for the first six years called Years 1 to 6, and Kindergarten is a pre-school for 3 to 4 year olds. Then there's INTERMEDIATE (although some Primary schools go up to Year 8 and those kids go straight to High school after) for two years, and finally HIGH SCHOOL, or if your school is called "Wherever/Whatever" College (as many are), then you will call it COLLEGE, and not just to confuse the heck out of Americans! HIGH SCHOOL/COLLEGE from Year 9 to 13 calls the kids 'Juniors' in Years 9 & 10, and 'Seniors' in Years 11 to 13.
From there, we go to UNIVERSITY if we can afford it, fondly known as UNI, or previously and not so commonly these days, called VARSITY.
There are FOUR school terms a year, and they go like this: Term 1 is approximately February to April, Term 2 is April to July, Term 3 is July to October and Term 4 is October to December. Most holidays are for two weeks in between terms, except for the Christmas holidays at the end of the year, which are six weeks for primary and intermediate, and 1 to 2 weeks longer for high school/college, and depending on whether you're juniors (shorter holidays, as no major exams at year end) or seniors (longer holidays, as school is basically done in early November and you only go in for exams; you're expected to study otherwise, and once exams are over, you are DONE. Thus 'prize-giving' (rather than Graduation) occurs before the exams start.
Exams are towards NCEA (National Certificate of Educational Achievement) in Levels 1, 2 and 3 over your three years of senior high school (and you can earn points as well for NCEA during the year doing coursework assignments and such, or if you do a subject that doesn't have an exam such as Art); or in some schools they have a system called 'Cambridge', which is based on the British version of school and exams.
And that is your education on basic Kiwi schooling for today. *gets down off soapbox and shuts up*