When I look at my students, I have to smile to myself. Hearing myself say 'Am I boring you?' 'Are we keeping you up?' 'Do you often come to school looking like an unmade bed?'
Knowing full well that was what my teachers used to say to me.
I am beginning to understand now, it is a term used for honest, good, non troubling making people who are good people to associate with? People that ar kind, never gossip and are true, down to earth solid, dependable people?
I loved my graduation, although it raised feelings of being 'released' as I was a boarding school lifer.
Boarding schools do institionlise students. Working in one, I can see myself in the shoes of the ones graduating tomorrow. Certainly four of them have been at our school for many years.
It is a time of excitement worry and anticipation.
Me too, my last one will recieve his diploma tomorrow and then he goes onto a university here in Austria. What with my daughter in London, one in the US and one here, it will mean me being on planes all year sorting their ironing and stuff.
Graduations do bring good feelings, it is very much there in my thoughts and reminds me of my own.
You know Dru, German is a gutteral language as you know. As a Germanic language it is hard to translate some English terms.
As a person who was educated in a Romance language, it has been quite a shock for me, even though English is a Germanic language.
That translates to 'good folk' Which is great, just that I saw 'decent folk' earlier and I wondered about it, because it is not a term used certainly in my area.
That is a term hard to translate in German, it does not work terribly well and where I live in Austria, it would never be understood.
What does it mean??
I know it is a term that is used in the North West of England, my father lives there, and it is a term I have not heard in years.
Does it mean, that there are undecent folk around?
In the German language, which underwent a change in recent years, if I translate it 'anstandig Volk'. (the word for decent is an Umlaut second 'a' but I am on a non international keyboard, so my apologies to German speakers for the incorrect use of their lovely language)
Terms such as 'ey up love' and 'ee by gum' are hard to translate so this 'decent folk' term intrigues me.
Now John, what is it with people and raising old quotes of mine and changing them...
Read the thread title and where I quoted that, I did not say that I wanted American women to live in Europe, which does not mean that I do not want them to. Frankly, I don't bother about this things...
I lived in the US for many years, the country served me well as did the people. I prefer Europe as a place to live.
How wonderful, it is immensely breathtaking for me to see the parents' faces when the children receive their diplomas.
My Grannie at mine, gave me an envelope with questions in and I had to answer them to her. When I was 30. I did and I have done the same for my adopted son, who is part of the group graduating tomorrow.
It is especially poignant for me, because I hand him his diploma as his parent, yet his birth mother is there with us.
Such a special moment and I took my final class today, as I retire from teaching and return in a new role at our school.
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