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I slept through the biggest earthquake in Dutch history (5.8) when I was 8. The epicentre was 15km from my home. I also once slept through a fire in the house across the street (my bedroom window faced that house), including fire trucks with flashing lights and maybe also sirens. I used to be an extremely deep sleeper it seems ;-)
My daughter is a girl scout, just moved up to Juniors. She loves it but her troop is trying something new this year called Quest. It has a lot more badges (a lot more variety) for the girls to try. We are trying it out for the year to see if they like it better. My daughter loves being a GS but our troop is so laid back (it's a homeschool troop) that I think this other thing might work better for the girls.
Too many earthquakes happening here lately. :(Fire tornado sounds scary and that snake.... O_o
Wow! That author..
Random Question: Anyone from London here?
Pragya wrote: "Too many earthquakes happening here lately. :(Fire tornado sounds scary and that snake.... O_o
Wow! That author..
Random Question: Anyone from London here?"
I'm not from London but I live quite close to it, in one of the 'Home Counties' which surround it.
not from London but used to live and work in counties next to it. have commuted in for courses and shopping and to see bands but that's it. I couldn't live there - way too hectic for me.
Had my interview :) I think it went well. My old co-worker called me to let me know they already called her for a reference :) she said they told her that they really liked me :) made me feel good:) the job is part time which is perfect since I will be taking some classes next month :) woohoo!! Now hopefully I can relax and not freak myself out about it lol :)
It never occurred to me that tornadoes weren't a common thing. I don't even live in tornado alley or anything, but we have them every year. I thought they were just more common in certain places. There was a really bad one here April of last year, it went through just a mile or so from my office. Luckily no one was seriously injured, but a LOT of people lost their homes and several businesses were demolished.
This is a video from a church down the road from my office in last year's storm. The action starts at about 1:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq16i...
Oh my goodness! That video is crazy! Tornadoes don't seem to last very long sometimes but they do SO much damage :(
We get tornadoes here as well. We are supposed to have storms this afternoon, but no mention of tornadoes. We had one about 5 years ago in the next town that took out the whole hospital. Thank goodness they had some warning and evacuated.Today has been quieter in first aid today. Rusalka it is a lot of bumped heads, scraped knees, and bug bites. However, I did get to remove a tick from a kids head. I have been itching every since! I didn't do scouts myself, but have my boys in it. It is our second year and they love it. Of course, my husband and I are "all in" kinds of people. So in our second year my husband became scoutmaster of our pack. It has definitely been sink or swim for us.
Glad to hear the job interview went well, Stephanie. Hopefully you'll hear something back soon!Tornadoes don't generally last very long but the storms that go with them often do. And tornadoes can travel a long distance before stopping. Another really bad tornado that happened probably five years ago completely leveled a couple of small towns near where I live. School books from one of those towns traveled about 30 miles with the tornado before it dissipated in a neighboring town.
Guys and somebody repost the link to the review, author rant, I want to read it, but I can't seem to find the link :-) please and thank you!
Berit wrote: "Guys and somebody repost the link to the review, author rant, I want to read it, but I can't seem to find the link :-) please and thank you!"http://archive.is/rFgtE
Well....boo...I didn't get the job :( they went with a candidate that had just a little bit more experience :( Oh well...that just means it wasn't the job for me then.
KimeyDiann - glad that tornado missed your office - such destructive forces - very scary! Earthquakes too! Pragya, stay safe! Amazing, Peggy, you could sleep thru earthquakes and fires! Possibly shows you felt very safe in your home in childhood - so a positive thing - but not if it puts you in danger of course!!
Stephanie - yay on good job interview - good luck : )
Sarah, Rusalka, Tasha, and Amanda - very nice to hear some about your various scouting experiences past and present as kids and/or parents.
I was a brownie then girl scout thru about age 13. Before I was a brownie I was an honorary cub scout. My mom was a "den mother" for brother's troop. I preferred cub and boy scouts because they went camping much more and learned "cool stuff," like tying knots, making fires without matches, finding north when lost, and other survival skills.
In brownies we wore our uniforms to school on Tuesdays and had really long boring meetings after school. Got some better in girl scouts because we finally went on camping trips. Our moms and troop leaders were more into us learning to bake, sew, study history and different cultures, and visiting the elderly in nursing homes. All worthwhile things, but i thought scouting should be more about what "real scouts" did, which for me was defined by what my brothers had done as boy scouts.
I'm sorry, Stephanie. The right job for you is waiting somewhere. Keep on trying!That video is scary, Kimey. In only one minute it destroys everything!
Thanks! It will but I am just bummed because they had told my reference that they really liked me :( oh well. They mentioned that I'm really young (I look younger than I am). Maybe I need to start putting my DOB on my resume ;)
We're having pizza tonight to cheer me up, lol!
Sorry to hear about the job Stephanie! It's their loss and there will be another job out there that is just perfect for you.Enjoy your pizza. I find that always goes down well when you need a little cheering up :)
Sorry to hear that Stephanie! Enjoy that pizza. :)
Thank you Lisa and Tasha :) Pizza definitely lifts my mood :)
Stephanie top it off with some ice cream :-) keeping fingers crossed for you :-)
Thanks, Berit :) mmmmm....ice cream:)
Sorry to hear Stephanie! I agree, enjoy the pizza :)
Stephanie wrote: "We're having pizza tonight to cheer me up, lol!"Sorry Stephanie, I didn't know at my last post as I hadn't refreshed my screen.
But still it's good you got positive feedback about your job interview. Your patience and diligence is going to be rewarded soon. Even this job search and interview process itself gives you additional very useful experience!
Thanks, Rusalka and TJ :) The pizza was great, too!!
All of you are making me hungry!
Sorry to hear about the job, Stephanie. The right job for you will be just around the corner.
I love pizza. Thin crust is best, I think. I'm kind of a pizza slut tho honestly. My favorite slice is the one in my hands, hee hee.
Thanks, Janice :) Thin crust pizza is definitely good :) we had NY style pizza when we went to NJ a few years ago. Best pizza I ever had! I love cheese and pineapple..hubby likes everything on pizza.
Has anyone ever had Jules Pizza or is it just a local thing around here? It's thin crust with lots of interesting toppings. But we also loved some good old authentic pizza too.
Probably just local then but oh so good.
Sorry to hear you didn't get the job. I'm very surprised that you don't have to state your DOB when applying for a job. Here in the UK they want to know everything. I like the idea of pizza more than the eating of it annoying. mainly because the cheese affects my sinuses and I end up with a headache the next day. a pizza hangover. I really enjoyed the ones I had in Croatia - the best I've had so far. They've learnt a lot from the Italians nearby.
Stupidly left home an hour earlier than I should to go to work. so I was really early. luckily I have my kindle and Internet access to kill the time. I can be dumb sometimes.
So sorry, Stephanie. Glad you had pizza to make it up for. Love Pizza! :D
Some of the places I've applied to, like the doggie daycares, have applications that ask for your DOB but most of the office jobs I've applied to ask for a resume instead :) I've emailed places to ask for an application but I never hear back from them (this is usually via Craigslist job site).
Here you don't have to, you know, to steer away from discrimination. So it's completely your choice.
For jobs I've applied for in the past I've had to provide age, sex, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, skin colour, speeding fines, medical conditions, to name but a few. all in the name of equal opportunities. and that's just at the application stage. crazy. it used to wind me up so much when I filled out those forms.
Thanks, Pragya! And I still have 3 slices leftover :) Sorry to hear that cheese does that to you, Sarah :(
Work places here say they don't discriminate but I think places do but it is just hard to prove it. The standard line is "we went with another candidate that has more experience." I have over 10 years of office/receptionist experience :) oh well..I've noticed, at least here, that most of the office people are older.
Ooh, haha, that was easy. It seems like such a standard thing to put in an application, I never thought of it. I actually have no idea if it is mandatory here.
Sarah wrote: "Sorry to hear you didn't get the job. I'm very surprised that you don't have to state your DOB when applying for a job. Here in the UK they want to know everything. I like the idea of pizza more ..."
If a job application asks for your age or date of birth in the states, they are breaking laws. A job application can't ask your race or sex either. Once you are actually hired, some of that information can be requested as part of the new hire procedures, but legally they can't require you to provide that information even at that point. Part of the new hire paperwork we have new employees fill out at my company has a form that asks for that information, but at the top it says voluntary.
Another thing I found interesting as far as anti-discrimination laws go.... it is illegal to deny a person a job based on their age, but only for older applicants. It is not illegal to deny a person a job because they are too young. Basically the law is protecting people at or close to retirement age.
That is the way it is here as well. Applications are not allowed to ask for age, race,sexEmployers are not allowed to ask if married or anything personal only about the job information. It is discrimination and if you feel you should have got the job we can go through the union and have it investigated.
Sarah wrote: "For jobs I've applied for in the past I've had to provide age, sex, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, skin colour, speeding fines, medical conditions, to name but a few. all in the name ..."Most of these things are considered taboo questions under the discrimination laws here in the states, Sarah.
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Yup. I was in Brownies and then Girl Guides, but our guide leaders were really old and liked doing things like flower arranging, so at 12 I moved over to Scouts. Loved it. Absolutely loved it. I was off camping, hiking, climbing or whatnot every third weekend or so as a teenager. Then like Sarah moved on to Venturers at 15 but stopped while halfway through Yr 11, mainly coz our crew was a bit small and unorganised. Bit sad, I should have gone and found a Rover Crew at 18, but just never got around to it.