Mr. Nysse's Creative Writing Club

*jumps up and down* I'M JOINING. Screw geometry.

Gosz*, and it's not until next term. Not sure if I mentioned that already, sorry.

You have no idea just how jealous I am of you guys right now! Creative writing club, here, for 13+?! Pff, forget it!
Anyway, I hope you guys have fun!

Aww! Maybe we could do a skype thing sometime or something.

Hmmm. I might be interested in that at some point.

Haha!
The writing club my school runs are for the lower years, not mine. They think it's quite childish, I suppose, so they don't offer it to older students.
The lower years are 7 (age 11-12) and 8 (12-13). The older years are 9 (13-14), 10 (14-15) and 11 (15-16). We do GCSE's in year 11, which is one of the most important qualification you'll need. After year 11, you can leave school, or stay on to do 6th form for two years, in which you do your A-levels. They get you into university. (While I can't take my GCSE's early with my school, I plan to leave my school in the next year and hire a tutor to help me take mine early. This is quite uncommon to do, but there are stories of children who've taken their GCSE's aged 11- here, we've got a boy who took his GCSE's aged 11 and A-levels aged 13, so he's now in uni- aged 14!!! With some luck, I'll be into university by 16. Hopefully. )
We have to wear uniforms, not our own clothes- my uniform, at the moment, is a knee length pencil skirt, blouse, tights, and a baggy blue jumper with one grey stripe round the collar and a grey blazer over the top. It's seriously uncommon to come across a school where you don't have to wear school uniforms- consider yourselves lucky! School rules mean sensible shoes, no makeup (haha. I'm in an all girls school; they've got no chance!), no nail varnish, hair tied up at all times and no skirts shorter than knee length. No rings, earrings, necklaces or anklets are allowed.
We have five lessons a day, and start at 8:45. We have 15 minutes for break, and half an hour for lunch. We get off of school at 3:05, but my school ends earlier than most schools. This is because we have an earlier start (most schools start at 9) and an earlier finish (most schools run 3:30-3:45) and less of a lunch.
My school is an all girls, and you've got a school in my area which is all boys. These are called single-sex schools, or all boys/girls. We have schools which teach both boys and girls (co-ed) and private schools (also, for god knows what reason, called public schools. It's confusing), which are usually single-sex but we've got a few who're co-ed.
Um... what else would you like to know? Do you have single-sex schools or are they all co-ed? What do you call private schools, do they have to wear uniform?
I'd love to do a skype call! But the problem comes with computers- my laptops sound thingie is broken. You'd see me, but couldn't hear me
Does anyone here have facebook? I'm listed as Krista N Nelms, and my profile pic is a horse drawing.

I'll add you on FB.

In America, there are school 'districts'. Every district has one or more elementary schools (Hamilton, which is ours, has several), which is for grades K-5. (K stands for Kindergarten, for ages 5-6, and then you go on to first grade, second grade, etc.) What we call 'grades' are almost equivalent to what you call 'years'. What you call 'marks' are also something we call 'grades'. The districts also have one or more middle schools (grades 6-8). We have only one middle school, which is Templeton, and our high school, Hamilton (grades 9-12) is right next to it. Most of the people on this board are in grade 9.

High school is, by far, the best and worst. Elementary school sucked for me, because pretty much everyone hated me (especially the teachers, who tried and sometimes failed to at least respect me) for no reason in particular except for Bridget & co., who you know as Red Fez. Bridget was/is neighbors with Cassie, (livelove1337). Cassie was in my Kindergarten class, too, so really I've known her for most of my life. It was 5th grade that I decided I wanted to be an author.

Middle school was 10x worse, because, well, think about it. You take a bunch of kids all going through puberty at the same time and mush them together. Who the hell thought that would be a good idea? I also went through an excessively morbid stage in which I wrote a myriad of dark, horribly written poems in order to find myself, which I ended up doing eventually, thank God. 8th grade sucked because I hated everyone in pretty much all of my classes, and everyone was so immature, and I was such a pompous dickhead because of it, and just, ugh. I'm glad that's over.

High school is nice because you're granted freedom and responsibility, and the people are a little more mature. Not to mention all the extra opportunities you get, and the fact that you can drive to school at age 16. The teachers are easier to relate to as well, especially if you hate kids like I do.

Single-sex schools, as far as I'm aware, are very uncommon. I've heard of Catholic all-girls/all-boys schools, but that's about it. The dress codes here are very lenient. Tanktops are allowed as long as the straps are at least a half inch, and short shorts are supposedly banned, even though the halls are filled with them in the warmer months. Public schools usually don't have uniforms. Piercings are allowed, makeup is allowed (and very common). The final bell that signals the start of the school day rings at 7:20am, and we're dismissed at 2:25pm. Most schools have 7-9 classes a day, each around an hour, but we have four classes a semester, and two semesters.

You're lucky to not have to get to school until quarter to nine in the morning. If I'm not at my bus stop by 6:45, I'll most likely miss the bus, and in turn miss a day of school and get my laptop taken away for being irresponsible.

Oh, and we have nicknames for high school grades.
9 - Freshman
10 - Sophomore
11 - Junior
12 - Senior

I can't think of anything else to say about it. Questions?