From: Rebekah.Venable@f921.n720.z6.fidonet.org (Rebekah Venable)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.senior
Subject: Anyone home?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 12:20:00 PDT
Organization: FidoNet node 6:720/921 - World Data Exchange, Taipei Taiwan

        Hi.  No, I did not get your first message.  You sent it a couple of weeks ago?  I have not been on this network for more than eight days. I am glad that you decided to write again anyway.

AB>this  area, and I saw one from you to someone - your schedule
AB>sounds pretty  grinding!  Are you a senior?  All those IB
        I am a Junior.  My schedule is not as bad as it could be, because in most of my classes I got the easy teachers.  Well, maybe I should say easiER teachers, because they are still not that easy.  Next year should probably be better though, because the only thing that I have left to take that is required is English.

AB>classes would drive me nuts - we  don't have them in my school,
AB>although some in the Portland area do, but we  have Advanced
        That is interesting.  I didn't know that any schools in the States have IB courses.  I didn't even know that people in the States knew about them.  I thought it was a European thing.  I never heard of the IB system until I came hear and neither did any of my family.

AB>we have to  shell out big bucks to take their SATs, their
AB>Achievements, their AP tests,  and then we have to pay them
AB>more money to send the results to colleges we  want to go to -
AB>SOMEONE is making serious MONEY.  Anyway, enough of that -
        Tell me about it!  The tuition at my school is 12,000 a year (my dad's company pays for it) and they charge for everything else on the side - books, SATs, trips, etc. It's outrageous the way the school rips us off!

        My Christmas was okay.  My mom invited over a mob of people to try to ward off the loneliness that comes every Christmas.  Christmas never really seems like Christmas over here.  There is no snow and the majority of the population does not even celebrate Christmas.  My mom's loneliness was worse this year, because my sister and brother (twins) just went off to college last fall and my oldest sister was complaining that this was her third Christmas away from her family.  I didn't help much by tellin
g her that there are many more to come.

        Yes, we will probably move to Seoul if we do, but I am not really sure if that is where we are going or if we are going to have to leave Taiwan at all (I will find out in about a week).

AB>couple of weeks - I found Seoul to be a very cramped, polluted,
AB>hectic, traffic-jammed place - but it DID have it's beauty, in
AB>a way.  In the
        That sounds exactly like Taipei!  It is VERY urban.  I've never been to Korea except the Seoul airport.

        I am connected to a local BBS that echoes my messages.  I hope you are not going to ask me a lot of technical things about it, because I am not exactly sure how it works.

AB>week.  Tommorrow, I will do  all of my homework - or maybe go
        Isn't that what everyone says?  I haven't started my homework either, but I have a whole week to go and I know it will go by pretty fast.  Oh, well.  I only have thirteen days of school between now and Chinese New Year.  Then I get four days off, my parents go to Singapore, and I am home alone with my computer and my stereo system.  I think I can handle that  :-)

        I won't be able to pick up any Korean unless I move there and I don't know about that yet.  I used to have a Korean friend and he taught me how to say "thank you" but I forgot how to say it and he went back to Korea last year.
        Well, I better go.  I've been on the computer for more than four hours today (I'm addicted).  Write back.
                                Rebekah

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