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Haha ^^ We have loads of castles, almost everywhere you go. They're pretty interesting, I suppose that's half the attraction for the tourists.

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Yeah Scotland does have nice landscapes, I always like the countryside and the castles and stuff. Haha XD

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I bet Scotland must seem tiny, it likely to be smaller than Texas even if France isn't (even combined with the rest of the UK that would probably still be the case). ^^

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Haha well I do at least know that all the states aren't actually countries, they just remind me of a lot of little one ^^; Is Texas a big state though?
Yeah I tend to use instant messaging with that friend over in America, so if we go on talking to long it can be really late at night for me ^_^; I think the time zone difference would be very important if you were planning to call though haha. But you're right I guess it doesn't make to much of a difference with emails.

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It seems so confusing that different places in the same country can have different time zones...I suppose it really is big. It always seems like America is like lots of little countries to me ^_^; One of my online friends lives in Virginia, but I've never managed to remember the time difference between us. ^_^; Hours and hours though.

I suppose that's true, America is such a big country. So the weather must vary a lot more than it does over here from place to place. I've heard the weather can get pretty cold in the winter over there. For some reason I always imagine it warm ^_^;

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I'd like to travel all over aswell. I want to go to this art college in Canada, it's an animation college but they have an Illustration course aswell. I'd like to visit America too though, I bet it's certainly warmer than here! ^_^. Yeah a lot of the people that took the optional health class here took it because all the other PD classes were full. So they didn't pay a lot of attention.

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That's the same with our school, they're very strict about being late. Though if we were going to be late from cooking she gave us a note, which was good of her. I just feel uncomfortable walking in late. Wow, you're school sounds diligent about the Health and Safety. Here we don't have a health class that's compulsory. And I don't even think we have AED machines...so we weren't taught how to use them in the optional First Aid classes. Maybe the rules are different in Scotland. Haha it's probably true, the cafeteria food can be pretty bad. ^_^;

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That sounds more relaxed than our class, a whole hour cleaning up! We used to get kept back after class to clean up because she hadn't left us any time! (And I can't stand being late for classes). Our teacher would have murdered anyone who made a mess like that! Once a guy in our class was fooling around a bit and managed to cut his hand with the knife, and we were worrying if he was alright and all she could do was shout at him ^_^; Which severely delayed him going to the nurse. She could be rather strict. The other Teacher was friendlier, but I never had her.

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I see, I always found it hard, when we cooked meals. Mostly because of all the time constrictions, my brain went to mush and I forgot what I was doing ^_^; We never really learnt very specific things though. And only 1 block a week was actually used for cooking...the rest were spent watching video's about healthy eating and writing notes ^_^; Which I tended to find a little boring. I think though when you took it later, once it wasn't compulsory they didn't have nearly as much theory work. It was more practical.

You get chef hats and jackets!? Our school never does anything like that for the ones that take cooking! I like cooking at home but I'm no good at school ^_^; To much time limitations kill my brain ^_^; So I didn't take it, although it seemed like people enjoyed it.