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I used to go to horse camp in the summer. OMG was it fun! I had to borrow someone elses horse one year because mine was so bad. I guess thats what I get for thinking I could train a horse on my own and not have a pro do it. 😆
starbreeze wrote:Greater Basilisk wrote:starbreeze wrote:I think European schools have a longer school year than here in the States. I don’t know how they determine such things. There is a minimum number of days that schools have to be in session, but I don’t know what they base it on. 😕
Kids in the States get the summer off, supposedly to help on the farms. Here, though, we get things like ski vacation and extended weekends over Ascension and New Year’s and vacations vary from canton to canton (Catholic or Reformed). All in all I think we have about as much vacation as you – we just get it in smaller – and more frequent – chunks.
Originally, I guess the vacations were so they could help on the farms, but a lot of us are city and suburb dwellers…no farms. 😀
As I said – supposedly. 😆
That’s an interesting Vacation concept,” taking time off from school to work on the farms.”
I assumed that very few of us ever heard of that idea.
“When I was young and they packed me off to school,” (J. Tull) I went to a very old syle boarding school, that had originally been an Orphanage, so it had a large farm. Those of us who paid less than the full amount of tuition, stayed there one month out of the summer to work on the farm, of whatever else needed doing. It was actually a lot better than most summers off with nothing structured going on.
During the school year, we worked 2-3 hrs / day after school, on Saturdays, we worked 8Hrs.
One time on Monday in the fall school was cancelled so we all could go gather in the late potatoe crop.
Like , surreal;… we all were dressed for school,ties blazers, good shoes,and the girls in nice dresses and slacks, out there in the fields picking up potatoes behind the tractor drawn “digger”. (there was no quiz following that lesson, and no grade awarded).
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