h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

spose. but thats not gonna stop mu emmotions randomly goign crazy ....

Nope..it's the same for all of us!

thats what makes life /interesting/ i spose.

yep

hi odo

Hi wiro.

There was rather a lot of backlog to get through!!!!

You’ve got snow? Now that’s not fair!

*looks out side at the endless supply falling from the sky*


just alittle


here you can have some

If you could just persaude a couple of those clouds to edge this way a bit.....

perhaps i will ask a male god, i will ask him to move the clouds or explain women. that will should get soem clouds your way

WRO you're doing really well. Your case is of particular interest to someone like me (I am secretly egging you on). Let me tell you why.

I fell in love with a boy in my class when I was 12, but as we practised a more or less self-imposed segregation in those days, there was no way I could get to speak to him.

In the fourth form we both went to the same Disco, but peer pressure (at least I think it was him not wanting to show himself up in front of his friends) prevented us from getting together even in that environment outside of school.

My only hope was that some invisible barrier would fall when we got to the sixth form (which it did). But, although he had always been first or second in class, he left after the fifth form and I only glimpsed him a couple of times after that, at the pub, (again with his cronies) and, when I had left school, at technical college, by which time I had a boyfriend and didn't want to evoke his wrath. Even though the boyfriend was only second choice, really.

I never got over that boy and I'll be 50 this year. I'm still kicking myself.

So go for it WRO - even if it's only for me to find out how the story ends.




(On reading that story, my reaction these days, however, would tend to be "who wants a wimp like that for a boyfriend?)

im in 5th year, the segregation is gone. i talk to her and her friends reguarly.

interestinly enough all the way to 3rd year i neevr really talked to any of the girls in my school, then in 4th year that started to change, now im in 5th year im not worried what others say if i socialise with girls. All that can happen is that they think i am better off than i am.

She is staying on for 6th year, but i am going to a differnt school. However regardless of wheter anything further happens i do not intend lossing contact with her as she is a good friend.

I didn't think that being together with the opposite sex in school would be a barrier..I thought that I'd have more friends if I was on a mixed school, but so the only way of meeting guys is out of school anyway (I'm in a catholic girls school...) (have heard before that they're supposed to be the worst) () ()

i have an example of why it is a barrier. primary school accross the road from me had a valentines disco, the boys in one class got told by there teacher that if they went they had to kiss a girl. no boys from that class went to it.

primary school children tend to keep clear of the opposite sex. i think that barrier carries on into secondary school, just grradually getting broken down as time passes. (and emotions change. but the phycology of not talking partially remains))

*wishes he'd gone to a catholic girls school*

I must admit as someone who went to an all boys school (and it still is) I think that didn;t help me with my natural shyness and lack of self confidence. I did do 1 lesson at the local girls grammar school, physics, which was good, but that wasn't until the 6th form. I probably did miss out on a certain area of social awareness.

Well I'm at an all-boys grammar school, although thankfully only for another few months, and I'm sure that it helps in terms of grades, but there's much more to education than just schooling.

Oh aye, the education was good *for me* and the education that friends and siblings received at the schools they went to was good *for them*. But it is true there is still work place / uni snobbery and being able to say I was educated at a Grammar School did help a bit considering I spent my a-levels down the pub / park trying to pull girls and consequently didn;t get very good alevels.

i go to a private school, it used to be an all boys school, but then in the 70s(mabe earlier or later) something like that anyway, it started admitting girls.


*has wished friendly girl luck for her last exam and found out what film he was gonna lend her*

And I thought things had changed since the sixties. We never had any problems mixing in primary school. It was almost a shock when we turned up at our new schools as first formers and suddenly the people we'd been playing French cricket and tag with only weeks before were treating us as if we came from another planet. In fact, as far as they were concerned, we were probably on one.

If you're shy and lack self-confidence, being in a co-ed school doesn't make any difference. You're not going to be any less shy or more self-confident because of that.

My kids (22, 20 and 15) have never known this sort of segregation. They moved quite painlessly from the mixed clique to the g/f-b/f status. Well, No. 3 has still to mutate, but he's nearly there, I think - certainly seems to have plenty of groupies. The group he hangs out with are all altar boys and girls together - all at different schools.

However, we digress.

*Waits for next instalment of WRO's wooing.*

you find it exciting do you?


my confidence in pretty much all ways has improved since i first started secondary school.


i never really mixed with anyone outside of school or outside of cadets ...

last place i lived i rember doing actully coming in contact with a select few on somesort of comunity outings thing, i wasn't very confident at the time and wasn't too impressed with them. since having moved i havn't really done any thing to meet anyone in the suburban village, i have met one or 2 people on the bus that are nice

why when on a bus to people sometimes seem frienth of trying to make a converstation with the person they are sitting beside?