Complete change of subject - it's my birthday in three days, and for the first time ever my mother and sister had claimed responsibility for organizing things on the day. Three days before it occurs, I suddenly get a barrage of questions of "what would I like to do on my birthday?" by my father. So I go see what had happened to the organizing committee, and lo and behold, they have nothingggggg. Except for "Let's go to the beach!" which is my default thing to do on my birthday, and the reason why I let them organize things in the first place is because I wanted something different for once! XD *deep sigh*
My family is so inept, haha. (Not that I can talk.) I think I'll have to resign myself to yet another birthday with just my family... at the beach... again... which, well, it isn't bad, but ... *siiiiiiiiigh*
Haha, maybe they secretly just love the beach...? ???
Sooo... when you guys learnt about seasons back in the day, they actually told you Winter=Dec, Jan, Feb, instead of Winter=Coldest season of the year? Dude. I thought Tasmanian education was bad.
(Just for reference, I had Australian education from kindergarten til grade 5, then an American homeschooling system from grade 6 til 10. Brilliant English grammar and word building courses, rather good mathematics, good/mediocre everything else. ACE, if anyone recognizes it. Then Australian again for years 11 and 12.)
But as for history classes... having had both American and Australian viewpoints on it, BOTH ARE BAD. American was so ... so... like propaganda that I could vomit, and Australian is so limited that I could fall asleep. Very little about the world, very focused on Australian history, and the most exciting thing there was explorers dying in deserts, bombs being thrown on Darwin, and Gallipoli. I didn't have a decent history class until year 12, where I had the most brilliant history teacher possible who taught us all about how the events from WWI through to the Cold War and events right now are all connected, plus lots of other slightly irrelevant but super interesting things.
Yup, we learned the seasons from the dates.
Propaganda, yes, that's a great word to describe it. Like, if I have to learn about the American Civil War
one more time, I might explode. For me it was solely American history through elementary school and middle school, then two years of "world history" (European history basically
),
another year of American history, and then American government, echhh. I've never had a good history teacher, unfortunately.
Come to think about it, I don't know a
single thing about Australian history... how about that.
