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@hanami @Appleblossom @Former-Member @Historylover @TAB @tonys where are the newbies?

Great sleep last night! So good for the brain.

Got to go timber bin dive now for Women’s Shed this afternoon 🪚🗜️:hammer:🪛

Hugs to all 👋🏼

Morning @Glisten

So good you had a great sleep. I love that feeling. Especially as I went through a few years of insomnia.

Have a great day!

Hey @Former-Member this has been changed for you now 😊

yeah , dont come across German language on tv so much any more @Historylover I thought Iwas okay or at least understandable with rels , well after month at school and majority of time outside school on my own, so if I did speak, it was in German, i went to pubs on my own a lot. was funny you wouldnt pay til you left.

I remember once was with aunt and cousin . tried to say I was going upstairs to get something turned into a lesson, they repeated it like 5 x at least , in the end I just gave up (akkusativ re change of location) so you have sein instead of haben because of movement, then that changes all the verb endings as well ha ha I still dont know it. However, sometimes I am surprised at what I can still recall after 23 years of not using it lol.

Funny, was told oh everyone has perfect English . Not. not if you grew up in DDR for example, or some people who didnt just refused, they were worried they would make mistakes I suppose. Had a language teacher I used to play games with. She was Polish I think. she used to quiz me on irregular English verbs and English pronunciation of French words used in English. The Germans always use French pronunciation of French words in English , just wrong for the common ones .

I should do German again , even if just for my brain. Would also like to do Year 12 maths again one day. I was put in lower single unit maths in matric which I ran away from twice with midyears approaching.

in first year at uni, I did whatever I was allowed to, which was anything without pre -reqs, did Information Science, got HD, D, then had to change as hit real conceptual brick wall with programming and I had no background in it.

did no assumed knowledge catch up maths for science students basically ( I was Arts.) but had really good lecturer who loved the subject and loved teaching it, so ended up w semi spoon-food equiv of yr 12 Maths 1 & 2. However, enrolled in real 1st year stuff year after and only just passed, was completely different level, never seen before, were getting new things thrown at me when still didnt get old ones , despite spending as much time on that as all other subjects and seeing a tutor.

Anyways, took up History instead of other stuff, changed unis to get rid of sub-major problem etc , did a subject in Linguistics, was basic level, but loved it.

The End

@ Tab age 61 ha ha lol

2 years after uni , gave up applying for white collar jobs, was back helping sisters husband building houses, then couple years later went to mines with my trade.

Enjoy the woodwork @Glisten

Hi @hanami

I feel rested now after going back to bed for 2 hours already ha ha

Got to get moving, shopping been putting off for weeks it seems is not doing itself ..damn ..been so long going to need a new list ha ha lost first 2 drafts already ..

Hi there @TAB !!!

not here for long @hanami shopping thing is getting to me. needs to be done

Got to do what you gotta do hey @TAB !

been putting it off for so long @hanami see you, well in couple hours ha ha not is if am going anywhere soon..

Sounds like you've tried quite a few things. @TAB. Loved your German lesson from your relatives, and I agree, it is amazing what we remember decades later, or even gain greater understanding of. Yet for me, remembering people's names is a task especially when I meet them again in a different context. Maths is a bane of my existence too. I keep going back from time to time and going a little further, but I guess I just never found its magic. Still, it really is important to never stop learning.

I've been teaching myself keyboard for a couple of months and although I can see that I have made reasonable progress, not so much in the playing but in gaining some of the multitude of tidbits of information necessary, it still is just a bad day away from being back in its box. It's probably going to prove to be too frustrating. Too little joy!

How's the house going?