Problems of Island life

[Chris]

Living on a tropical (I wish) island isn't all it's cracked up to be.

The Barracudas were due to compete in the Tigers (Jersey) open meet at Fort Regent in Jersey this weekend.

Just as their inter-island flight was due to leave, the fog came down. They waited at Guernsey Airport for 5 hours waiting for the fog to clear, but finally abandoned attempts to get across.

No competition this weekend, then!!!

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Chris (Webmaster)
Beau Sejour Barracudas Swimming Club - Guernsey
http://www.barracudas-sc.org.gg/

[matt]

Tragic that is

[swimmer]

that sux! we did a training camp in jersey not last yr, yr before, and did the jersey tigers open (the oct one) and ugh memories of having to walk up the *blommin* hill! grrrrrrrr!!!! also worse as the esculators didnt work on any of the days!! part from that it was pretty kool!

[nsswimmer]

whoa matt ya kno chris's post wuz from 10/29/2000.. puahaha got just a bit too much time on ur hands? ;)

[matt]

And I really should care, but I don't. It is one of the easier posts to understand and reply to. I have loads of time thanx

[GettingFaster]

Ahah! an 87! Do I detect someone who should be revising for GCSE's then?

(spot the parent of an 87...)

;)

[swimmer]

aww i wish i was back doing gcses again, AS's suck no time :( still haven't even finished the course, probably wont by the time the exams come! so much to learn, not enough time! (i'm soooo stressed about it if you hadn't allready gathered!) i got 6 hours of exams on the 23rd may ahhh!!!!!! (2 whole subjects in 1 day - ggggggggggggrrrrrrr to the examining body!)

[chlorine_babe]

Two three hour exams are the worst especially if you have another exam the next day you come home with your hand falling off and all you want to do is sleep but you ending feeling guilty because you think you should be having another look at the next days exam work. Well I did anyway.

[Bazza]

AS's are easy, and they're probably (for probably read doubtless) easier now than when I did them. You'll be fine!

[Steve]

Originally posted by bazzaroodoo
AS's are easy, and they're probably (for probably read doubtless) easier now than when I did them. You'll be fine!

Ha! You should have done them when <i>I</i> did them, if you thought yours were hard....

(no doubt the more mature forum members will now start saying how much harder they were in their day and so on and so on ;) )

[nsswimmer]

arent you allowed to leave exams as soon as you finish them?

[chlorine_babe]

As far as I know you can't leave in the first half an hour and noone can come in more than 1/2 hour late. Then your not allowed to leave in the last ten minutes. I usually wait until the end sometimes you can be lucky and inspiration will strike. More often than not you just end up finding loads of mistakes.

[nsswimmer]

hehe that's so random about the first half hour/last 10 minutes :P

G'LUQ SWIMMER!!!!!! you'll do awesome :D

[swimmer]

thanx nsswimmer :) , i hope so! :s

[Bazza]

It's not random. People turn up late, that is accepted. If someone leaves within the first half hour having looked at their paper, there is a chance they can bump into a late comer (this only seems likely if it was intentional!) and give them some hints.

You can't come in more than 30 mins late, and as a result you can leave whenever you want after the first 30 mins, but you can't leave in the last 10-15 mins because this is when people are frantically putting down everything they can and it's not fair to keep disturbing people.

Also if you leave you can't come back (for obvious reasons!).

So there you are, makes sense really....

Steve - I didn't say they were hard, just that they were harder in my day, and yes I am sure they were harder in your day than mine, but that's target setting for you.... :rolleyes:

[Katie]

How do u know they were harder in your day them??

[Bazza]

Because half the kids these days can't even spell well or crunch numbers in their head, yet the number of higher grades keeps going up at GCSE and A-Level. That way the government can make it look like more children are better educated, when really the situation is getting worse.

I know I'm stirring up trouble by saying this but no point in lying about it!

[matt]

Originally posted by GettingFaster
Ahah! an 87! Do I detect someone who should be revising for GCSE's then?

(spot the parent of an 87...)

;)


Yes that is right I am an 87. But the revision hasn't started yet becasue I have just come back from Jersey and when I posted my last post I was still at school

[GettingFaster]

Just jealousy really - I'm much closer to actually being 87 than being an 87, if you see what I mean.

I won't go down the "When-Ah-were-a-lad" route that so many others have, I'll just wish everyone who has exams coming up the very best of luck and I hope you manage to fit in enough revision between visits to the pool and this message board.

[nsswimmer]

bazz, that may be so, but if you think about it, the number of children in universities is going up greatly [there was a huge TIME article on child prodigies a few weeks back -- i personally know a 13-year-old girl who is graduating college next month and is also considered a musical prodigy]. furthermore, research has been done in the united states, and it has shown that it is getting harder and harder to get accepted to universities nowadays [in the U.S., at least ;] than it was in the past, because the number of incredibly smart students is going up. last year, 40% of the applicants to Harvard had a perfect 1600 on their SATs [do you have SATs in the UK?], but more than HALF of them got rejected!

hehe im sorry this is long-winded and i'm rising to the bait and all, but just thought i'd say this ;) of course, it could be that half the kids CANT do math in their head or spell well, but it could be that the other half is [possibly] doing better than students in the past, and so the gap is merely getting bigger, which isnt good either. hehe.

[Aussiebabe]

I was always under the impression that while the number of higher grades given out was increasing, so was the number of average & low grades 'cos the percentages were the same as they've been for years so it is a bit of emphasis on a certain statistic, out of context, for the sake of the arguement!!

[chlorine_babe]

The universities are looking for higher grades because more and more students have higher grades and the universities want the best students. If 99% of students got C grades or less iniversities would lower their grades to get students however they would still want the students with the highest grades which in this case might be C/B.

[Bazza]

There are more people in uni because the government want it that way. They have supposedly made it easier for more (less wealthy) people to attend.

Also you don't have to be a genius to go to university (just look at me!). Not everybody goes to university because they got 3 A grades at A-Levels. In fact 2 points (1 pass at the lowest level, a grade E) is enough to get on many courses. But the government can still say more people are going on to higher education. Yes that's true but I still refute any claim that the next generation of kids are any more intelligent than previous generations, and this despite all the increased opportunities.....

Just call me cynical!

[nsswimmer]

i'd think that the future would be in more trouble if future generations start corrupting their knowledge -- knowing too much and feeling too little -- than if future generations' intelligence levels start declining; however, based on the enormous technological leaps we're making today, that doesnt seem too likely.

we're all screwed. ;)

[super_fish88]

Originally posted by nsswimmer
we're all screwed. ;)

That's a nice positive comment nsswimmer!!

[GettingFaster]

And all this in response to Chris moaning about Guernsey weather, two-and-a-half years ago!

Chris, surely this has to take the prize for a hijack that got the furthest away from topic?

;)

[super_fish88]

I think all this discussion about exams started with this post!:

Originally posted by GettingFaster
Ahah! an 87! Do I detect someone who should be revising for GCSE's then?

(spot the parent of an 87...)

;)

[matt]

Originally posted by super_fish88
I think all this discussion about exams started with this post!:

True and just for the record I started revision 2day, I read through Of Mice and Men :read: and my notes on it. It was so much fun, I can hardly contain myself. :D

[Katie]

I found that with Of Mice and Men last year, not a bad book normally, but GCSE makes it soooooooo boring!

[swimmer]

we were lucky at gcse, we did To Kill A Mockingbird - great book loved it, however Hard Times by Dickens this yr is the MOST BORING THING EVER! whenever i read it i end up falling asleep - no joke, today i started reading at 2.30 and by 3 i was asleep until 4! zzzzzzzz. Dickens writing style REALLY bugs me

[swimmer]

(however A Streetcar Named Desire is sooooo kool! Was fortunate enough to see the recent production at the National with Glenn Close - she was amazing!

[matt]

Very nice random comment by the way :rainbow:

[swimmer]

it's a speciality of mine! :d

[Bazza]

I did Of Mice And Men, way back in the last century!

Have you seen the 1992 film version with Gary Sinise as George and John Malkovich as Lennie? It's really good actually and helped me get a picture to go with the story.

[Katie]

Indeed I have. It was pretty good I thought. Anything's better than Hard Times...!

[matt]

Yeah I've seen it as well, he plays Lennie really well - nice dialect though