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@meanmistermustard Well it means less work this year and I could go to a University, as explained below. It also looks good on your resume. The hand-on work side of it is going well, we have to do an internship every year, and have to write reports about it and do assignments. We have to come up with goals for ourselves and have to work on them in our internships. There’s this list with competencies we have to have under control at the end of our studies. Every year we have this huge assignment at the end of the year to explain how we have worked on achieving these goals. Like I have told before, I’m now doing an internship at a sort of school care in a bad neighbourhood. Every week we’re trying to teach the children something and we play games and all. The thing is that we have to find out how they feel and what kind of problems they’re facing at home, since they’re from poor families where drinking, drugs and child abuse aren’t uncommon. It’s actually below my level, but it’s very hard to find an internship and this one was on the list, so I decided to take what I could get, plus it’s almost around the corner. It’s also a lot of fun. Very tiring though, some children are way too hyperactive for their own good and sometimes they really ruin the mood of the group.

@Ahhh Girl Yeah, we went shopping but I had high heels on and I knew I had to carry those bags and it would look ridiculous, so I only bought a few things which I could just hide in my school bag. My mom and sister both bought a coat so those bags were kind of big and heavy and it looked a bit stupid, everyone being dressed all fancy and then there’s us with shopping bags. We just went to McDonalds. I felt gross afterwards. I have really started to hate McDonalds and I hardly ever eat there. We had some time to kill after the stores were closed (they close at 6 pm here) so my mom took us to a restaurant thingie to drink wine. She also bought me a few little presents and felt bad because usually people who get their First Year Certificate get things like expensive jewellery and god knows what. I was pleased with my presents though, they were just a few nice things to put in my room and I love to decorate my room. I couldn’t care less about expensive jewellery. I didn’t even expect to get any presents.

@StrawberryFieldsForever It depends what kind of study you’re doing. We have Intermediate Vocacional Education, which has 4 different levels. With level 1 you can become a carpenter or a truck driver or something like that (not that there’s anything wrong with that, I just thought that by making examples it would be clearer), level 2 is administrative work, beauty school and stuff like that, I have no idea what level 3 is and if you have succeeded level 4 you can become a social worker and go to a University of Applied Sciences if you like. It takes 4 years, and a University of Applied Sciences takes 4 years as well. If you have a First Year Certificate or if you have done pre-university education in secondary school (which I have, but which I failed in the end because maths was mandatory and you had to get at least a 5 out of 10 on your finals and I just couldn’t, so I have re-done a few subjects in Higher Secondary Education) you can go to a University. The difference between a University of Applied Sciences and a University is that a University is more about the theory and a University of Applied Sciences is too, but practice also plays a big part, hence having to do an internship every year. You don’t have that in University. It’s more about the research and advanced part of things. University also takes 4 years. Usually chances of finding a job are better if you have followed a study at a University of Applied Sciences than if you have gone to University. Except of course if you have followed a study at a University of Applied Sciences before going to Uni.

Oh and thanks again for all the congratulations!

Annadog40 said
I never liked apple products. They always gave me a bad vibe

Yeah me neither. All I hear around me are complaints about iPhones and iPads. I did have an iPod and that worked alright, but I’d never want an iPhone or iPad or one of those Macbooks.