Does anyone have any tips for an American moving to the UK for School?
The do's and don't. The different customs, holidays and etc.
Other - United Kingdom - 1 Answers - 2010-05-03 19:44:42
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yep, here are a few WORDS UK US Mam or Mum Mom Colour Color Coke/fizy drink Soda Pavement Side walk rubbish bin Trash Can HOLIDAYS bank holiday come every week months, these are a public holiday which last for 1 day, normally a monday 5th November is Bonfire Night, everyone in the UK does it, like you 4th july, we have fireworks and make bonfires and make 'the guy' that's guy forkes who tried to blow up parliament TRADITIONS (name calling) the UK is made up for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. people from the UK - but not Wales - call the welsh (people from Wales) sheep shaggers as they is so many sheep in Wales we all laugh at them as we say they shag sheep, onl dont go say this to them, you'll get your head ripped off the English are a pack of tea drinkers and they have a north/south divide both sides slag each other off all the time the Scottish get drunk, put on blue face paint and rant about their independence while eating haggis and the northern Irish are nice people so no one has anything bad about them (apart from they get drunk) SCHOOLS/COLLAGE also we finish school at 16, so after 16 you go to collage and it's free to go to collage here in the UK I nkow in the US you have to pay, you also can get £30 a week in UK money for going, after collage which brings you to the age of 18-25+ ( as you can start collage at any thing from age 16, but most people go between them ages, im there now and im 19) then you can go to Uni (you have to pay to go here) for a few years and get a job I guess, that's how it works if you are younger than 16, you start secondary school at age 11 and stay in the same school until you are 16 in summer we get 6 weeks off, Christmas it's 2 weeks off, eater is 2 weeks off, then every few months we get 'half tearm' which is a week off and a week off at the end of May.
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yep, here are a few WORDS UK US Mam or Mum Mom Colour Color Coke/fizy drink Soda Pavement Side walk rubbish bin Trash Can HOLIDAYS bank holiday come every week months, these are a public holiday which last for 1 day, normally a monday 5th November is Bonfire Night, everyone in the UK does it, like you 4th july, we have fireworks and make bonfires and make 'the guy' that's guy forkes who tried to blow up parliament TRADITIONS (name calling) the UK is made up for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. people from the UK - but not Wales - call the welsh (people from Wales) sheep shaggers as they is so many sheep in Wales we all laugh at them as we say they shag sheep, onl dont go say this to them, you'll get your head ripped off the English are a pack of tea drinkers and they have a north/south divide both sides slag each other off all the time the Scottish get drunk, put on blue face paint and rant about their independence while eating haggis and the northern Irish are nice people so no one has anything bad about them (apart from they get drunk) SCHOOLS/COLLAGE also we finish school at 16, so after 16 you go to collage and it's free to go to collage here in the UK I nkow in the US you have to pay, you also can get £30 a week in UK money for going, after collage which brings you to the age of 18-25+ ( as you can start collage at any thing from age 16, but most people go between them ages, im there now and im 19) then you can go to Uni (you have to pay to go here) for a few years and get a job I guess, that's how it works if you are younger than 16, you start secondary school at age 11 and stay in the same school until you are 16 in summer we get 6 weeks off, Christmas it's 2 weeks off, eater is 2 weeks off, then every few months we get 'half tearm' which is a week off and a week off at the end of May.
2010-05-04 12:38:36
