What do you have to look forward to?

[Far Dareis Mai]

Winter Semester starts January 13th, and I have to take a Drawing Class and an Art History class. The Art History is meh, but I'm really not looking forward to the Drawing class. I have to take it for my Graphic Design major however, and it's going to be a pain because for all intents and purposes...I can't really draw at all. Not in the traditional sense, anyway.

 

So what classes do people have coming up? I know some of you go to school year-round (which to me is just freakishly weird), but what are you taking? Are you excited about it, or are you in my boat, just wanting to get it over with as quickly as possible?

[Moghedian]

My school year goes from the start of February to the end of November (when my exams finish)...So basically, I'm just looking forward to midday Wednesday when my 2.5 month holidays start!!! :D

[Dunbar]

Birthday in a few days (woo :o), hopefully that'll lead to me passing my driving exam, which would lead toa driver's lisence whichi is pure awesome. Also, russe-time sometime in may, which means a lot of drinking pretty much for everyone in the 13th grade in Norway for two weeks or so. Um. What else. That's it : p

[cosmicpanda]

MOggy I got you bet since at uni I finished about a month before you  :D

 

Uni's basically a holiday compared to the daily grind of high school. You get up at reasonable hours of the morning. You get drunk if you feel like it. You do stuff you actually like. You meet cool people. Wahey!

 

Unfortunately it's finished for the year and I'm working.

 

So I'm looking forward to next year's university! w00t!

[Twitchy]

I'm looking forward for people to stop asking me what I'm looking forward to.

>:D

[Far Dareis Mai]

Alright, my little Scrooge. Be nice or I'll stick ya in a kennel. *gives atomic wedgie*

 

Demi--getting your license will be so cool! Wait, how old are you again? What age do you have to be to get your license in Norway?

 

And why are people's big holidays starting in the Winter. In my state, we have our three month breaks at the start of summer.

[Moghedian]

It's the end of Spring here...

[eclipse0]

Far forgot you guys in the Southern Hemisphere don't have Summer in June :P

 

I'm looking forward to Wednesday as well.  I get a 5 day weekend for Thanksgiving!

[Haxorsist]

I'm looking forward to moving. The new appartment will be closer to the city centre. This means I can walk home from a late night out, and don't have to take the bus home and wake up in the woods.

 

You have to be 18 years to get a driver's license here. It's wicked expensive too. Considering all the mandatory driving classes plus the actual test, mine ended up costing roughly $3500. I'm under the impression it doesn't cost as much elsewhere in the world.

 

And... eclipse thinks you're in the Southern Hemisphere far. Which puts you on the same hemisphere as New Zealand. That's totally awesome.

 

Edited by Pandy because it was absolutely necessary

 

[Moghedian]

*Approves of 'Hax's' comment*

[eclipse0]

No, I know Far lives in the same timezone and hemisphere that I do, I was saying she forgot about the Kiwi's and Aussies...

[Haxorsist]

I read it like this: Far, forgot you guys in the Southern Hemisphere don't have Summer in June :P

 

Comma wasn't there, my bad.

[eclipse0]

It's not your fault, it's the fault of people who do not use correct punctuation!  I find myself doing that to sometimes.

[Far Dareis Mai]

That is insane. In Michigan you have to be 14 years and 9 months to get a permit that allows you to drive with someone over 21. Then when you turn 16 you can take your test and get your license. It cost me about $50 to get my license...but that was back in 1998.  :-\

[Alaksuleiel]

over here you need to be 16 to get a learners permit, and you need atleast 120 hours experience all written out in your handy dandy drivers book before you turn 18 and can then attempt for your probationary licence, after 3 years, (assuming you haven't breathalised over .0 or gotten any speeding fines), then you pay X amount of dollars and receive either a 3 year or 10 year licence. I have a ten year because it turned out cheaper that way.

[Talya]

You can get a learners Driving licence here on your seventeeth birthday, when you can officially take your test too. You don't have to prove you have had any lessons, some don't and get their parents to teach them. You also have to pass a written exam before you can take the test too. Driving lessons can cost around £20.00 for one hour. some people will obviously take more lessons than others. If you are like my mum took her 6 attempts and I don't know how many lessons!

 

I'm looking forward to Christmas, not only because I love this time of year, but alo because I have nearly two weeks off work!

[Twitchy]

Gotta be 15 and 3 months to get your Learner's Permit here, than you gotta be 16 and have your permit for at least 6 months before you can get your License.

 

You also need 60 hours of driving, 6 hours of driving with an instructor, and two weeks of driving school.

 

All and all, it's about 5 or 600 dollars.

 

 

[Alaksuleiel]

Back to the posed question, :D , I had today, (the 24th), to look forward to as it is my first wedding anniversary. So that is exciting!

  Christmas is the next big one, Sephrenia is just becoming aware of all the shiny things the silly season has and she is enchanted, Mara can't wait for Santa to visit which is sweet! A week after christmas we'll celebrate Sephie's 2nd birthday, smack, bang in the middle of summer, kind of like if she'd been born on the 2nd of July for those in the Northern Hemisphere hahaha!

[bad company]

I have collecting my tyranid army to look foward to

[Far Dareis Mai]

I am really looking forward to Christmas this year. Ashleigh will be a week shy of 3, and so she will fully understand what in the heck is going on. Norah will be about 6 months old, so she won't really get what's going on, but like Eli said, she'll be entranced by all the shinies. My husband and I went out and did all the girls Christmas shopping, and I'm so excited to have them open their presents. This weekend we are taking the girls to visit Santa Claus, and getting some pictures, as he has his own house in the City.

 

Bah, Norah's crying. I'll have to finish this later.  :-\

[Twitchy]

Psh, get the chloroform, and finish this now!

 

[Barmacral]

I'm looking forward to my trip to Europe right after Christmas, woo for me!

 

Drivers licenses here cost 100 for your G1, which allows you to drive with somebody with 4 years of driving experience, you have to be 16 to get that. You then wait a year to get your G2, or do drivers Ed (about $500) and wait 8 months. And after another year you can get your G, which costs some money, but I think it was maybe 50 dollars or something, I don't remember. It costs 90 to renew your license every 5 years.

[Lythnia Roylin]

Ya I don't remember how much it costs here in PA...I know you can get your permit at 16 and need 60 hours of experience before you can get your license.

 

As far as looking forward to...I'm taking Chem, Botany, Brit Lit and a course on Jazz artists that fulfills my music req. plus a once a week "fitness and wellness" course that's required *sigh*

[Dunbar]

Demi--getting your license will be so cool! Wait, how old are you again? What age do you have to be to get your license in Norway?

 

Well, I'll be 18 this Thursday, and I've the driving exam this Monday <.<

 

And yes, I'm quite confident that I'll fail it miserably o_o

 

And also, I was lucky as hell and got my dad to pay for the whole shazam. As of now it's cost him about 3500. It'll possibly go up a little bit though >.<

[Gerrendus]

I don't remember if there was an application fee to get my Learner's permit (have to be 15 yrs 6 mo to get it).  After you get the learners permit you ahve to drive with someone over 21 for 40 hours (10 of which after dark), have your learners permit for at least 9 months (meaning youngest you can get your license is 16 and 3), and complete a drivers ed class.  The class is taught in school but then there is a behind the wheel portion which you can do through the school or privately (i did mine privately to the tune of about 300, through school was like 150 or something, but they have a waiting list a mile long).  To get the permit you ahve to pass a written test (100% on a signs test and like 80% on basic road skills, but they have a nice little booklet that gives you all of the answers to study).  Idk how it works for 18 and up except taht I don't think you have to get a learner's permit, just the driving test (administered at the end of the behind the wheel course).  And then of course the first year you ahve your license you can only drive one person, and after you've had it a year but are under 18 you can only drive 3 people.

 

That being said I am most looking forward to christmas break.  We actually get two full weeks off this year.