Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

CKhalvashi

LydiaJ wrote: »

Oh my! So your company (or is it companies) does stuff with oil as well as music and taxis?

No, I have nothing to do with oil.

A JSC is a Joint Stock Company, which is not only a form of business in Kazakhstan and Georgia, but through out all but one of the former Soviet republics. It's a company, owned by one or more shareholders, that can be listed on a stock exchange, a little like a PLC in the UK.

Put it into Russian or Georgian script, and you'll find a lot more info.

The circumstances regarding the other part of your post (which yes, I do make mistakes, and I hit CTRL and backspace, instead of Ctrl + C), I have already mentioned, part of which is due to the Russian university intake system, and the fact that I studied under the old system.

I certainly didn't have 2 years experience at 21!

I'm need to disappear for a few hours, as I'm getting a little annoyed with a few things!

CK

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

Are there any Dutch speaking nice people....with some patience? If today works how dh wants it to I might need so e help with a few word translations and a phonetic pronunciation for each...

I know ( I think thanks to an online dictionary) the meanings of these, but pronouciations?


Geliefde, kostbare, mooie, schoonheid, aangenaam.

AIUI the Dutch pronunciation rules are much the same as German so an 'e' on the end of the word is pronounced as 'uh' and when you have ie/ei you say it like the second letter, think 'Siemens' (e sound) and Ein (i sound). W is said like 'v', j is said like 'y'. G is a weird kinda throat clearing sound.

I am no expert though so am happy to be corrected but it might be better than nothing.

I tried learning Dutch once. Nightmare of a language spoken by very nice people.

Alternatively, try this:

http://www.pronunciationguide.info/Dutch.html

LydiaJ

CKhalvashi wrote: »

No, I have nothing to do with oil.

A JSC is a Joint Stock Company, which is not only a form of business in Kazakhstan and Georgia, but through out all but one of the former Soviet republics. It's a company, owned by one or more shareholders, that can be listed on a stock exchange, a little like a PLC in the UK.

Put it into Russian or Georgian script, and you'll find a lot more info.

The circumstances regarding the other part of your post (which yes, I do make mistakes, and I hit CTRL and backspace, instead of Ctrl + C), I have already mentioned, part of which is due to the Russian university intake system, and the fact that I studied under the old system.

I certainly didn't have 2 years experience at 21!

I'm need to disappear for a few hours, as I'm getting a little annoyed with a few things!

CK

Sorry. I thought you became a head of science with 2 years' experience in 2004, and you were 29 this time last year:

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I did part of my PGCE in a reasonably rough school, and the other part in one of the best schools in the area, and during the course, I learned a lot that can't be reasonably transferred into mainstream teaching, possibly as I taught in a reasonably nice school, went for Head of Science, got it in September 2004 (I'd only been teaching 2 years), then left teaching a year later.

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I’ve got a BSc equivalent in Structural Engineering (Moscow) and an MSc equivalent in Molecular Chemistry (Tbilisi) as I didn’t have to pay for it, and I’m qualified to teach Science (Chemistry and Physics specialities, Cambridge PGCE) and have also taught Russian in my time.

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Unfortunately, this is my living, and second to my girls, the thing that gets me out of bed in the morning. I’m reading a letter now from my ‘boss’ to state we have a 3 year contract on a major kids music festival that I’ve worked on since 2003 (1st as Director of PR and Comms, then as Director of the contest (2004-2010), and now on the big board of the organisation as Director of Entertainment, Fiction and The Arts from 1st Jan last year.

CKhalvashi wrote: »

As an NQT with 2 young children, the subsidised rent was ‘useful’. (I’m 29, so this was about 8 years ago) … We moved out 2 years later when our part-time business took off (which has now become one of 4 companies we have absolute control in) and I gave up teaching, which was around the £80k mark (although we’d earned around £40k the year before.)

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

I tried learning Dutch once. Nightmare of a language spoken by very nice people.

I have some Dutch friends. One of them told me that the way they identified German impostors posing as Dutch in the war was to get them to talk about a particular town in Holland. The place name is apparently so hard to pronounce properly that only the Dutch can do it. Oh look, the story about it has made it onto Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheveningen

Lir, I asked a favour of my Dutch friends last year with regard to translation so if you have another option, please take it, however if you get stuck I'm happy to ask again.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

The point of clicker training chicken a chicken isn't really to clicker train a chicken. It's to train a clicker trainer. Chickens don't really 'try' like dogs or sow other animals, and because of that it makes them very honest on ones timing and clarity. Much more honest than a dog who loves you, who will try very hard to overcome your shortcomings for you!

There are some fun YouTube videoed of chicken'agility' course trained on clicker training weekends if its interesting to you.

Ah, that's very interesting. So, the chickens were training you!

Itismehonest

lemonjelly wrote: »

Nope, have a car, & will probably have 5 days to fill if we go there.
Can see Ilfracombe is nearby, and barnstaple (which has a Warrens bakery, which will require a visit - loved their pasties in Newquay, plus, it has a special resonance...;))

Weymouth is another consideration.

Don't know where I got the no car bit from then, sorry.

Exmoor (including Lynton & Lynmouth) - Beautiful scenery & 680 miles of footpaths including the SW coastal path. Horse riding. Cliff railway. Boat rides. Small steam railways - full size but fairly short track at Woody Bay which was once part of the L&B railway + Exmoor Steam Railway near Bratton Fleming. Also in the BF area is Exmoor Zoo.

Ilfracombe town is a bit of a dump (sorry 'Combeites) but the quay area can be quite interesting. Damien Hurst (lives at Combe Martin) has his Verity statue (gross) there plus a restaurant. The MS Oldenburg sails from Ilfracombe & Bideford doing day trips to Lundy.
Watermouth Castle is a kids theme park with various attractions.

Moving round closer to Woolacombe there's all the sand & surf beaches. Croyde, Woolacombe, Saunton Sands (my preference).

Barnstaple - fairly ordinary town nowadays since it lost most of it's independent shops but worth a visit on a rainy day to see what's in the Pannier Market.

On the other side of the estuary there's Bideford, The Big Sheep, The Milky Way. the little fishing village of Appledore &, of course, Clovelly.

Your best bet is to tinker with this page from the local tourism site.
http://www.northdevon.com/things-to-do/
Feel free to ask if there's anything else you think I may be able to help with.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I have some Dutch friends. One of them told me that the way they identified German impostors posing as Dutch in the war was to get them to talk about a particular town in Holland. The place name is apparently so hard to pronounce properly that only the Dutch can do it. Oh look, the story about it has made it onto Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheveningen

Lir, I asked a favour of my Dutch friends last year with regard to translation so if you have another option, please take it, however if you get stuck I'm happy to ask again.

No, it's ok, you don't need to prevail upon friends....it's not very important. We might even not use Dutch, although technically we should. If we even go ahead. Which is certainly not a foregone conclusion. ATM, of those words I
Ike mooie the best cause it looks easiest to pronounce and aangenaam because it looks funny and if I have the meaning right I like that. It might be decided already even if we do go ahead.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Ah, that's very interesting. So, the chickens were training you!

The truth is more people are trained by their animals than admit to it!

neverdespairgirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

The actual numbers of hours I work vary from about 22 for an absolute minimum week to nearly 40 at peak times - like last week when I was up late marking until after midnight on 3 nights, and worked Saturday morning in school (independent sector). It's fair enough. I'm part-time and only paid to do 52.5% of a job, and I get 18.5 weeks holiday.

When my mother was teaching part-time, she had her contract expressed as a percentage of what a full-time teacher taught - I think it was "a third of a timetable".

She was recruited informally - my geography teacher asked me, when I was in the Lower Sixth, to ask my mother if she was interested in joining the school the following year. She knew my mother had been a teacher before I was born, and knew how old my mother's children were - as I was in the Lower Sixth, my next sister in the Upper Fifth, and my youngest sister in Lower Fourth.

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

When my mother was teaching part-time, she had her contract expressed as a percentage of what a full-time teacher taught - I think it was "a third of a timetable".

She was recruited informally - my geography teacher asked me, when I was in the Lower Sixth, to ask my mother if she was interested in joining the school the following year. She knew my mother had been a teacher before I was born, and knew how old my mother's children were - as I was in the Lower Sixth, my next sister in the Upper Fifth, and my youngest sister in Lower Fourth.

Yes, my job is a percentage of a full-timer. This year it's 52.5%.

Was geography your mother's subject?