[Teenagers in France - again!]

Hello

A slightly different angle but I studied French as a foreign language at Uni here in France and had to attend for 24 hours a week and had on average 1.5 hours of homework per day.  This was the norm in the language fac so I assume this is the norm across the board (can someone confirm).  My niece, who is studying in the UK, attends for 12 hours a week which I think is ridiculously low.  Perhaps the long hours contribute to the drop out rate in France, in the UK also there is much more of a culture of enjoying Uni life, which mainly means getting drunk every night, Uni in France seemed a lot more serious and perhaps less 'fun' again the hours may contribute to this.  Thoughts?

Another interesting point with regard to exam pass levels, I have two friends who have returned to Uni in England later in life (late 30's) both failed Maths and English O levels first time around so had to do an access course before applying to Uni.  They have both just achieved a first, that to me seems odd, great for them but shows surely a dumbing down of results over the 25 years between their exam taking.  They didn't get remarkably brighter in between times, one was a postman the other worked in a hotel. 

 

Panda

[Roots and L'assainissment non collectif (sewage filter system)]

Hello

What is mile a minute called in French and is it generally available in the garden centre chains?  I know how much it grows but have a building I would like ot cover that is not near the house so the smell is not important.

Panda

[Meeting Other like minded Adults.]

I would prefer spending 'quality' time with my goat than my neighbour! 

Tried the black shiny ones today Wooly, not as much as a wolf whistle, aren't men weird? [:D]

[Meeting Other like minded Adults.]

[:D]No I wasn't wearing my jodhpurs, might try that tommorow!

[Too many immigrants?]

[quote user="groslard"] I wanted to make the point that here the British are the immigrants, and that the similarity of their patterns of behaviour here to those seen by other nationalities in the UK should make people pause and think.

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Lucky we have you bfb to point this out to us otherwise where would we be!

[Meeting Other like minded Adults.]

I think you may be right Sweet17, it's freezing here in the Charente today and I've just been propositioned in Intermarche, it's set to be -4 tomorrow so gawd only knows what will happen then![:D]