Dude.

[bubosquared]

Currently downloading on KaZaa:

• Krezip - I Would Stay
• Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
• Prince - Nothing Compares 2 U
• The Radios - assorted songs
• Assorted oldies
• ABBA - assorted songs
• K's Choice - assorted songs
• Assorted Kinderen Voor Kinderen songs

And no one but jintro and sileas is going to understand how utterly random that last one is, but dude. I grew up on these songs, and I even performed En Ik, En Ik, En Ik when I did my Lentefeest (equivalent to er ... First Communion? something like that)(I was the skinny one -- How things have changed, heh.). (And I'm just realising again how very Dutch a lot of these songs are.)

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[sileas.livejournal.com]

Three gifted kids, really.

Parents proud? Or were they afraid? (and err. sorry for asking all the personal questions. You're eh... interesting and it's easy to talk to you somehow)

My parents were pretty much afraid that I did too well. My brother isn't gifted so they didn't openly praise me at anything. Instead, they praised him when he finally studied for a change.

so I do think he needs extra attention to make sure he develops a study method, or he'll be in the same kind of trouble I was in when going to uni.

*nods* Study methods weren't that deveoped yet when I went to highschool, but nowadays schools pay more attention to it, so I hope he finds a method that suits him. I think in the class 'leefsleutels' that they perhaps get education in the study methods. I'm not sure as it was only introduced when I was in the last grade and was already to old for it.

I myself don't have a study method except for : 'I'll study on the bus to school'. I do very well under pressure.

The HS we went to only went up to fourth year in ASO, so we pretty much had to change.

The highschool closest to me had that too. My mother decided to throw me 16 kilometers further in a totally unknown city with no friends whatsoever. I was supposed to sit in class with the brother from hell, but he broke his arm, so I went alone for a month till he joined me and stayed in the same class for three years. (total classtime with brother : 12 years)

Maths is good. :-D did techniek-wetenschappen. I didn't like physics or chemistry because of the teachers ,but biology and one mathteacher was real good.
I've wanted to do language-maths in ASO but that didn't exist anywhere near me. So *shrugs* I plombed down there and sat out 6 years of boring classes. (except for the ones where I could blow up things in the lab and scare the shit out of my labpartner!! *big evil grin*)

because of being bullied and the aftermath of that

*gives big big big big hug*
I'm sorry you had to go through that. You look a lot like me, as far as I can tell. Except that I didn't ran away for real and that I didn't get bullied to that extent. I can't imagine the loneliness you felt when going to England. And the confusion of a new place without anyone you know. *hugs again*
I was in a pretty tolerant class from the beginning. And the others could always rely on me to have articles, books and knowledge for a bookreport or spreekbeurt. I saved my own ass by reading more than they did. So in the end, classmates started to respect me but the others in the school didn't.
I was struck by the similarities between us. Only one good friend in highschool who betrayed us in some way, being bullied,and the shyness when meeting people and parents who just don't notice. I think you could write my memoirs and only get one or two details wrong.

Anyway. *hugs hugs hugs*

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Parents proud? Or were they afraid? (and err. sorry for asking all the personal questions. You're eh... interesting and it's easy to talk to you somehow)

's Okay, I don't mind talking about things. ^_^ My parents were ... well, proud, but also afraid because they (especially with YYB) knew what kind of problems we'd be facing.

Dude, I can't imagine being in the same class as my brother. I think a lot of the teachers who taught all thre of us must've been really confued, because we're all pretty different.

Anyway. *hugs hugs hugs*

Thanks. :)