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Re: things i learned in aus after a year Sun, 30 January 2005 20:41 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Hi,

EldarO wrote on Sun, 30 January 2005 14:58

old man rivir, how was the classroom "back in your day"? i would imagine paper and pens to be pretty non-existant then?


Yeah, it was a real bitch... we had to use reed-pens and write on papyrus. However, this was better than my dad's days when they had to chisel their work onto stone tablets! Smile

Hehehehe.. seriously we did have pens & paper as I recall, and small calculators were pretty new and we weren't allowed to use them. Mind you, the simple calculators back then could only do the basic functions and cost nearly $100. So, I became quite adept at using a slide-rule.

Back then I used to get into trouble a lot 'cos they tried to force left-handers to write with their right-hand and I rebelled at that. At tech-drawing I always got low marks 'cos I smudged my drawing. So, one day I had the brilliant idea of doing it all backwards. It was the neatest and cleanest drawing I had ever done - and got zero marks for it! Smile "It's backwards, you fool!" the teacher barked at me and tossed it in the bin.

I got kicked out of metal-working class 'cos I was trying to make a steel stake to stick through the tech-drawing teachers heart. So I took up woordworking and tried to make a wooden stake, but wasn't allowed. Instead I made a small jewellry box for my mum, who subsequently used it to store her "stash". Good on ya mum! Laughing

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