Posted by alexandra_k on November 8, 2018, at 18:38:19
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM » alexandra_k, posted by beckett2 on November 8, 2018, at 13:34:05
> Omg, lane issues. I remember that from when I swam in a huge indoor pool at the YMCA. That and there was a rooftop track, and some people would run the opposite direction to the rules. Swimming with 6+ people in your lane and in the adjacent lanes. Oh well, it was a crowded city.
Sigh. Yeah. It gets like that, at times. Perhaps not that bad, but I've been there when it's been 3 or 4 to a short course lane (25m).
> I just read that Auckland is in the top ten most expensive cities to live.
Yeah. And then you need to factor in the low low low (how low can we go?) wages of the people trying to live / work there. That is what typically shocks people. They think they'll be alright but they didn't factor in that they were going to have 'frictional unemployment' for over a year and then only be offered something fairly low level / temporary / terminal with respect to promotion etc.
I'll basically be at the mercy of the government / housing new zealand. As I have been since returning to new zealand. Nothing has changed there.
I have said for years 'I just want a quiet place to work on my thesis'. I have said for many years 'quiet, for me, is not listening to teenagers blast their music or television or hang about in groups guffawing and screaming and carrying on'. I have said for many years 'quiet, for me, is not living with another person. It's about not having to socialise with people on demand'. I have made it really f*ck*ng clear I just want a quiet space by myself.
This year I finally got that quiet space my myself. I wrote the thesis. Suprise. Lets's take nearly a decade of totally ignoring everything she has to say beause if we ignore her for long enough some gang banger will simply claim her and kill her if she's a pain, and then we won't have to bother about her, anymore.
great job, new zealand!
anyway...
If I get to do it I'll apply for a transfer, here. I don't suppose I will get one. Her can be problematic because if I have classes at 8am (and I think I will have) then there will be snow / ice for a significant chunk of the year and I only have a motorcycle and I don't know that the back roads will be ridable.
I have already put my name down for a state house housing transfer and I'm high priority but of course nobody can do anything until I actually have an offer of place.
Who knows what they will offer me in Auckland. They could offer me something in a g*ng b*ng*ng area of South Auckland with a several hour commute. Because they decide I'm not allowed to study / work.
They have houses that are suitable with little commute. I am sure. The house I am in at the moment has a pleasant aesthetic, even. They have good houses. But that doesn't mean that I will get one.
They have apartments in the city / ghetto, too. But I expect they will be noisy and / or there will be lonely peole in them and it wouldn't take long before someone decides that if I dont want to socialise with them the way they want me to then they have the God given right to bang and stomp on the walls / ceilings / floors / all around the hallway.
My current house works because the house is a bit big for me. I have a single central room in the house that is internally insulated by hallway / kitchen / loungeroom. The outlook is over across a hill and there is a nature reserve behind my large back yard. I am bothered a bit by people walking pas teh nature reserve yelling at theier dog... But it's really infrequent and I can deal with it mostly. Nobody camps out there.
In Auckalnd there are large sections in Remuera (inner city adjacent). But , you know, people have large sections in LA, too - right? lolz.
> >do american people have guidelines on teaching / learning or...
> I think there is, but standards vary from school, meaning the meeting of those standards vary.Yeah. I do understand that. I know there are people stuck in slums in LA and NY and Chicago and St Louis and... Most places. Sydney. Melbourne... Most places. Little kids in tenement blocks with needles in the hallway and seccrity lighting kicked out. People being raised in trailor parks. I watch TV / listen to music. Sometimes lawfullly. Hrmph. If NZ had have paid me more money over the years I would have been able to afford the entertainment that is a huge part of what helped me get through so as for me to still be here, today.
Our national standards are a joke. A national embarrassment. A... System that got dumber and dumber and dumber to try and conceal how our kids are becoming less educated in reading writing and arithmetic over time.
It meant private schools became more important - because some of the very expensive ones used Cambridge Curriculum (UK). Which meant their school performance could be compared to those kids which meant they could hopefully get entry to a US or UK university for their first / undergraduate degree. Some of our public schools are pretty good, but that really really really drives up the house prices in teh area. There are / were / are rumoured to be some pretty good scchools that are zoned central city Auckland. New Zealanders would traditionally only have lived in teh inner city slums for short time (as teenagers / very young adults) and then moved to suburbia to have a family. But immigrants undrstand better the value of education and are willing to pack themselves in tighter and tigher spaces to raise kids in inner city school zones. Especially because people come from HOng Kong and the like and, well, us Kiwis don't understand what overcrowding is...
But what they don't factor... Is you get a big tribal dude (for example) who is used to ranging over a space... Like... A few kilometers... Something like that.... Used to cooie yelling and the like... And a boisterous manner with that... And when there are only 2 people in a tiny little apartment... Living like that... The noise just fills the whole (like 13 floors) building. Parly because of the cheap plywood construction. Then add harbour shipping traffic and constrution traffic and subway traffic and commuter swearing and honking traffic...
I have to trust it will be okay. Because there is no other way.
I'm meeting the connections / people I will need. In the journals. Learning who is 'good' here. If I have a problem. To approach them. Building up my reputation so people may listen to me when I need them to. Learning about pursuing things in the UK and so on.
That Step 1 thing got to be... There's rather a lot more information in that than I first thought. It's deceptive. But it is really high quality. The best thing is that nearly all of it is familiar to me and I can follow nearly all of it. I know what the abbreviaions are and so on. I mean sometimes I find a chunk I haven't learned / that's not true of but... Well... Over the last however many years I suppose I have learned a great deal about the content...
I don't think what I've said abbout the UMAT questions is problematic. Thinking about the commentary in first aid that isn't deemed breaching. Also the UMAT is going away. It will not be offered from next year. Also everything I've said is only my opinion and why trust / believe me when I didn't even do well at it? Maybe I'm stupid. I mean... I've studied interpersonal stuff for years and years and I still don't seem to get it. Sigh.
Australia doesn't know how to see / view disability.
The best stuff on that is American. I think because of the human rights focus from equality.
I understand the implementation of the ideal is patchy. The main virtue is the presence of a coherent ideal, however. I mean... If you aren't working towards an ideal you beleive in then what teh hell are you doing / working for?
Work often isn't rewarded in Australia.
And work often isn't possible in teh first place in New Zealand.
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