Alibi Ike
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High school I seem to recall was 7:50 to 1:50. Something odd like that anyway. 7 class periods + 20 mins for lunch + 5 minutes to change classes. I think I was home by 2 every day.9 to 3! Must be colder climates start later for plowing etc in winter? Or to avoid already busy commuters?9-3. School hours for me until high school.I think partly it is because in europe they tend to start school really early ie 8am and finish about 1pm so they are trained from an early age to be up early (ie and get your towel on the sunlounger lol). The UK people when at home usually have a bowl of cerial but when on holiday ie a B&B they have cerial fruit etc and then a cooked breakfast as a special treat. In Italy they are super keen on their coffee so wouldn 't be surprised that that was all they had but I bet they have pastries etc at about 11amI like Germans they are a very precise and orderly people..Me too, he wanted 6am breakfast and was EARLY! Now my 815am breakfast AMERICAN is not even down, and I hear no movement, it is 845am.[email protected] said:I like Germans they are a very precise and orderly people.
I will state the stereotypes, ONLY AMERICAN guests do not show for breakfast. Not all Americans, of course not. But have never had any foreign guest amble down an hour late or no show.
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.I started school ar 705AM every day.[email protected] said:I think partly it is because in europe they tend to start school really early ie 8am and finish about 1pm so they are trained from an early age to be up early (ie and get your towel on the sunlounger lol). The UK people when at home usually have a bowl of cerial but when on holiday ie a B&B they have cerial fruit etc and then a cooked breakfast as a special treat. In Italy they are super keen on their coffee so wouldn 't be surprised that that was all they had but I bet they have pastries etc at about 11am
This gal came down 45 minutes late and was all apologetic, the sure sign of someone who is late everywhere they go. I said "What about your appt?" Oh I will call them and make it later. She told me she HAD to be there by 9am. Then she talked incessantly for 30 minutes. Sweet.
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When we have guests who specifically state they must be somewhere at x AM so they need to eat at x-1 hour AM, I tell spouse, 'The minute you see them, start cooking. Don't wait while they chat and pour coffee. Start cooking.'
Invariably, they are 30 minutes late and then stand around talking like the breakfast is cooking itself. We've had them look at the clock and say, 'Never mind we don't have time.' And it is ALWAYS when they are the only guests and we got up especially to feed them.
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My kids have to be there at 730am every morning and get out at 245pm. But that is what they do now adays in the dumbing down of american kids, they have them there longer and longer and then you hear they watched videos in three classes...don't get me started! Our kids go BACK to school Aug 17th in the FLIPPIN' HEAT OF SUMMER. There is no "see you in the Fall," it is stinkin' hot for 2 months until Fall arrives!
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School didn't start until after Labor Day but we got out around June 18-21 or so. We start getting our vacationing southern teachers around mid-May. Some of them go back in July.