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I've been learning german since I started grammar school, and have been doing it for just over three years now. Both my parents are fluent in German. I wish that thay had brought me up to be bilingual, but appearently, its difficult for non native speakers (german isn't their first language). I don't feel that I'm that good at German, compared to you, practically fluent in English.

Well, you can check out my synopsis here, but its about a Roman demigod in roman times who loves a greek and becomes an outcast for it. He runs away to camp half blood, but its turns out he was a son of zeus all the time, not a son of jupiter, just he was brought up bilingual and he didn't know that he was. It is of one in seven mini stories, about a boy who gets reincarnated seven times (with slightly different personalities). On the seventh time he breaks the law and is forced to become a god, and be all seven different people at once ( like split personalities). I started writing it before the son of neptune came out, so the details are really iffy. Plus, I changed charcters. I made Apollo more serious and responsible and Lupa and Chiron more warlike.Natalya Finnley 20:21, November 2, 2011 (UTC)

well, not all private schools here in the U.S. have uniform, just most, to distinguish between private and public. My school just happens to be also a high school, so we don't have uniform.  Athletiger Talk~Angelica Liu 00:32, November 3, 2011 (UTC)

A sysop is anyone with special rights on the site (chat moderator, rollback, admin, and b-crat). Darkcloud1111 ~Fastest Hero Alive  10:44, November 3, 2011 (UTC)

Ciao. Yeah, I get those alot. Like Frank's steroetypes, except mine are like, totally absurd. Once I got 39/40 and they're all like, 'Oh what happened with miss perfect? No more 40's?' It annoys. Anyways, saw you pic in the 'Administrator team' thingy, you were on the 'Rollbacks', good job! The thing is, what is rollbacks? =). I know I just said 'good job', even though I don't know what it is, but I'm pretty sure it feels awesome to be published in a template like that! Right? Athena Jackson ~Call me Leah  11:12, November 3, 2011 (UTC)

All I can say is... COOL! Well, I tried undo-ing wiki contributors' edits, it work for me, but why? Anyways, awesome. =) Athena Jackson ~Call me Leah  13:02, November 3, 2011 (UTC)

Thast game sounds so cool! Porn Bingo? Seriously? OMG, you guys obviously don't lack imagination! There is a game Greeks play, but it's not dirty.. Each student is assigned a fruit and when sb says it, they have to stand up. I have the impression we're not the only ones to play this. So, how do you exactly get a teacher to say obscene words? BTW, I love the Simpsons!!! :D Oh, I noticed that you've been talking about stereotypes about the people of certain countries and since you're German, I was curious what you guys honestly think about us. I don't know if you keep up with the news.., but we're not very popular these days. Mary! (talk &bull; contribs) 14:08, November 3, 2011 (UTC)

Well, I like creative stuff, but I'm not very good at essays. I think that learning German is easier than learning French because in German you know how to prononuce stuff. Plus I hated french from the beginning. It was because everyone learnt it, and I just didn't like it. I make grammatical mistakes in english, but thats just me. In German its mainly spelling of nouns that I get wrong, and the der, die das. Have you ever been to Stuttgart? I've been there. Have you ever visited anywhere in England? I know it sounds wierd, but do you find it difficult that "the" in english has no gender or whatever? It was hard for me to get around der, die das in the beginning, but then it started to make sense. On this Wikia, I don't think people are bothered about grammar mistakes and stuff that much, I mean, I'm sure some of the English native speakers make mistakes, though with them its probably spelling.Natalya Finnley 18:54, November 3, 2011 (UTC)

You're honest, I Iike that. To me, racism is unacceptable. Greeks of my age hate racists and I think most young people feel that way. Personally, I don't blame the Germans, I blame the governments and mostly ours. You know what our problem is? Incompetent politicians. We blame them. But in times like these, people just have to blame sb and I guess that's why Merkel (I don't know how to spell her name) is the easy solution for some. But we have a great sense of humor, so people just make jokes about her or other European politicians. It sucks that Germans are afraid to come here, but when we go anywhere in Europe, the minute we say we're Greeks, we get pity looks or people look down on us. I know cases. Sad, isn't it? It's unfair to judge sb by their nationality. In general, Greeks really like foreigners. We find them interesting. I think English and Germans buy houses on Mount Pilio. Mary! (talk &bull; contribs) 21:54, November 3, 2011 (UTC)

Exactly! I think wherever you go, people make fun of their politicians. Satirical TV shows that make fun of the media, politics and stuff, are very popular in Greece, not to mention hilarious. Comments we hear about Merkel go sth like this: "I'm willing to give my body to/sleep with Merkel in order to save Greece". That's very common, cuz Greeks kinda feel.. violated (??), to be polite! I remember that brilliant idea to sell our islands and now with that ultimatum she and Sarcozy gave us, she's sort of a bitch (sorry). OMG! I just saw the photos! I had noticed her hands, but I had no idea she did this so often! Anyway, you have no idea what we say about our politicians.. First of all, our Prime Minister, Papandreou is completely dellusional. It's like he's living in a different country or planet.. He's expected to resign today, thank God!!! One of our favorites is Psomiadis. He's on different shows every day commenting on gossips about our local "celebrities". He's unbelievable. Paggalos is mocked because of his weight, just like our previous Prime Minister and maybe the craziest of all, Georgiadis who is very fanatical about Ancient Greek and religion and yells all day long on TV. His party is shown by the media to hate immigrants. Mary! (talk &bull; contribs) 11:22, November 4, 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, I left chat. It was like, broken. And I don't know. Some type of wiki glitch. So sad I like having a chat. D: SayuriDarling (talk &bull; contribs) 23:04, November 4, 2011 (UTC)

Of course. Look, I've never been rich in my life. My parents are police officers and they worked hard to get a good salary. Now that salary keeps reducing and reducing. I think we're gonna be fine, but I'm worried about families that only one member of the household has a job, about families with more that 3 or 4 children, about old people getting pensions around 200 euros or people getting the same as salary. So yeah, life has changed. Because of the media's exaggeration of course, the French are under the impression that people are so poor that walking on a street, you'd find bodies everywhere. That's not true, this isn't 1940! Mary! (talk &bull; contribs) 08:56, November 5, 2011 (UTC)

I'll fix it. Darkcloud1111 ~Fastest Hero Alive  15:48, November 5, 2011 (UTC)

if you're here, care to go on chat?  Athletiger Talk~Angelica Liu 18:41, November 5, 2011 (UTC)

I think so. I mean the hardest part about being an admin is blocking people. It isnt something I enjoy because sometimes I have to block new users that dont come back or users that have been here awhile and just dont listen. If you can get past that, you should be good. As far as your editing goes, you make good edits and I dont see any warnings or anything which is a good sign. Just be prepared to get asked a lot of questions by new users who dont know what they are doing. Darkcloud1111 ~Fastest Hero Alive  18:47, November 5, 2011 (UTC)

ummm...let me first demote you to see what's going on.  Athletiger Talk~Angelica Liu 19:37, November 5, 2011 (UTC)

how about your internet service? is yours internet exploror 9?  Athletiger Talk~Angelica Liu 19:41, November 5, 2011 (UTC)

that's happened to me before. try another wiki's chat, and then come back is all i can suggest.  Athletiger Talk~Angelica Liu 19:43, November 5, 2011 (UTC)

when i was fixing the template, i realize that there were too few admins so i decided not to, but i'll nominate you later. I won't forget, i promise.  Athletiger Talk~Angelica Liu 19:52, November 5, 2011 (UTC)

Well, I came to Germany for a week, and stayed with a "host family". We were based in Aachen, but also visted Monshau, Bonn and Koeln. I came to Stuttgart seperately with my family. Are you guys able to "drop" (not do) subjects after a certain number of years of doing it?

For GCSE's we are allowed to drop the subjects we are not doing for the GCSE's. Everyone has to do English Lit(erature), English Lang(uage), Maths (x2), Chemistry, Biology and Physics. We also have to do a tech (textiles, ICT, food technology or Product Design - woods, metals and plastics). As well as a language (french or german), a humanity (geography, history or RS - religious studies), as well as 2 extras (another langauge, another hunamity or music, art, PE, business studies or latin). All in all thats 12. We have more than one exam per subject. For example, we will have 3 or 4 exams in the language that we are doing. Natalya Finnley 20:57, November 5, 2011 (UTC)

Well, I just told you the requirements for my school, most schools don't do double maths, we're doing a pilot in it. A "pilot", in that sense is a kind of tester to check if it works. You do your GCSE's when you are 16, or 15 if you have a summer birthday, in what we would call year 11 (15-16). You chose the subjects you want to do at the end of year 9 (13-14). Not all schools are exactly the same, but everyone does their GCSE's at the end of year 11. Then, in year 12 (16-17) and year 13 (17-18), you do what are called A Levels. You can chose three or four. Taking four is considered more difficult, and less people do it. You can take any of the subjects you have taken for GCSE, or some extras, like Classical Civilisations (Classics) or Economics. It is recommended that you take subjects that you did well in for GCSE's. Natalya Finnley 09:38, November 6, 2011 (UTC)

Leah, here. Yeah, I decided to try it too. I also voted yes for your petition =) I agree on the shortage of admin. thing. I hope you're not offended or anything. Anyways, about the admin, if anyone asks me to be one, I don't think I'm ready for it. I dont know all the codes yet. I strongly believe you have to know everything there is to know about being an admin before becoming one. Athena Jackson  ~Call me Leah  12:43, November 6, 2011 (UTC)

Deutsche sind überall!!!! LOL Ja ich bin auch Deutsche XDDD Hast du PJO/HoO auf deutsch oder auf englisch gelesen?^^ Yourgirlyui (talk &bull; contribs) 18:49, November 6, 2011 (UTC)

Just to be pedantic, if you were a halfblood, you would say "oh gods". When you wrote that, Annnabeth saying that popped into my mind.

My friend and I stayed with a couple in their mid 30s with no kids. The lady got married when she was 18 (and still in school)! They were really nice. Have you ever been to Aachen? I like all the fountains that they have, like the one with the mannequins. 87.112.138.140 19:21, November 6, 2011 (UTC)

Ssimmt habe ich gar nicht hingeschrieben XDDD Ich bin weiblich XDDD

Ich habe nur den ersten band auf deutsch gelesen^^ den Rest auf englisch~ Die deutsche übersetzung fand ich aber eigentlich auch nicht schlecht(es durchaus schlechte übersetzungen ><)

Ich glaube ich muss mein profil nochmal änderen XDD Ich weis was mein fatal flaw ist LOL Yourgirlyui (talk &bull; contribs) 19:33, November 6, 2011 (UTC)

Die cover ...hmmm... das erste buch habe ich beim bertellsman club gekauft. Die haben die original cover von Hyperion Books übernommen^^

Holding grudges (Ohoh) XDDD

ne ist aber echt so, wenn mich einmal einer dumm angemacht hat, das vergesse ich nicht und vergeben kann ich das auch nur schwer. Ich schätze ich mag Nico deshalb auch so gerne, ich kann mich mit ihm identifizieren XDD Auch wenn ich gar nicht goth bin und deutlich älter LOL

Hey. Dude, don't feel pissed or anything but, I saw your 'undo revision' but I was published in the wiki activity. Athena Leah Jackson of infinite awesomeness ~Call me Leigh  14:32, November 7, 2011 (UTC)

Sure, the only rule when it comes to voting is that you cant be an Anon, and you cant vote if you are also running for the same position (So if user A and B were running for Rollback, user A cant vote for user B and user B cant vote for user A). Besides that, you can vote for whoever. Darkcloud1111 ~Fastest Hero Alive  14:52, November 7, 2011 (UTC)

Hey, Menara. I have this activity for Geography and the question was 'What id the language mainly used in Germany? German od Dutch?' can you help? Athena Leah Jackson of infinite awesomeness ~Call me Leigh  15:11, November 7, 2011 (UTC)

=D Thanks, btw do you know how to speak dutch? or is it spoken in your country? (The activity has lots of questions in this) Athena Leah Jackson of infinite awesomeness ~Call me Leigh  15:26, November 7, 2011 (UTC)

I shoud probably update that considering Supernado left a few days ago :'( but anyway, all it means is that a b-crat(s) have the finally say on decisions. If one or more doesnt feel like it is a good idea, they deny it. But that decision is very much influenced by how the other users see the user that is running and how much support they have. Darkcloud1111  ~Fastest Hero Alive  15:30, November 7, 2011 (UTC)

Haha...I'm not old enough to chose which ones I want to do yet, let alone start studying for them. Sorry if that sounded mean, but I do want to do Maths, Further Maths and Classics definately, and maybe English Lit or History or German, when it gets to the time. What are considered the best universities in Germany? In England its Oxford and Cambridge (we call it Oxbridge - get it? - and they are considered to have some kind of rivalry), and in America its the Ivy League (places like Havard, Yale and Penn State). In France I know people just go to the university thats in their city. I was wondering about Germany...<span style="color:Navy;font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;background:Goldenrod;border:1px dashed; -moz-border-raiuds: 1em; color:Green">Natalya Finnley 19:05, November 7, 2011 (UTC)

im not quite sure if im allowed to tell you that. how old are you? how does one edit their signature? (i sound really posh)<span style="color:Navy;font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;background:Goldenrod;border:1px dashed; -moz-border-raiuds: 1em; color:Green">Natalya Finnley 19:28, November 7, 2011 (UTC)

me 2 (im 14). I did do it once, then I forgot how to do it, and realised how ugly my signature was, wanted to change it, then didn't know where to go...<span style="color:Navy;font-family:Tempus Sans ITC;background:Goldenrod;border:1px dashed; -moz-border-raiuds: 1em; color:Green">Natalya Finnley 19:37, November 7, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Menara for the information. Btw, what is the font color of your signature? I love it! I'm planning to change mine. It's too flashy don't you think? Athena Leah Jackson of infinite awesomeness ~Call me Leigh  11:25, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I agree, I kept on changing my signature and I cant find the right colour. I love blue. It's my fav color after black. I don't really like flashy colors. What do you think about steel blue? *Ąthena Leah Jackson of infinite awesomeness* ~Call me Leigh  13:35, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

How 'bout now? Does it look nice? Ąthέnά Lέάh Jάckson  ~Call me Leigh  13:46, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

thank you very much! did you know that there is a colour called "MintCream"?? Natalya Finnley - Tell me something I don’t know (no really)  17:38, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

well, it is a bit hard to read, but thats because its so small. I'm using Tempus Sans ITC for one part of my signature, and i like it plus it looks a bit like handwriting. How did you get the cool symbols in your name (signature thing)? Do you have to like have the Unicode thing for them? Natalya Finnley - Tell me something I don’t know (no really)  17:48, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

yeah i meant them. haha woops. it sounds easy to do... can i copy you, just a little bit? Natalya Finnley - Tell me something I don’t know (no really)  17:56, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

yup! you just changed it now! cheers! (sometimes brits say this instead of thanks), but thanks too. Natalya Finnley - Tell me something I don’t know (no really)  18:01, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah sure : D I don't have a friends list (sounds really nerdy), but I'm going to make one and add you to it, is that okay?87.112.138.140 18:40, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

woops, sorry, the above message is me. Natalya Finnley - Tell me something I don’t know (no really)  18:41, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! But no, not yet a rollback. But yeah, sure, I do have your name in mine afterall Ąthέnά Lέάh Jάckson  ~Call me Leigh  19:04, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

You see, I was going to use Ancient Greek letters, but then I remembered runes and younger furthark (norse) and stuff, so I used mainly runic stuff. The "o" that looks a bit like a "d" is called the "eth". Ŋatalyą Ƒinnley - Tell me sðmething I don’t know (nø really)  19:25, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

Yep. I've always been interested in fonts, word origins and letters. I find the runes really interesting. Thats one of the reasons I find ancient greek interesting because of the alphabet.

I had a look around. Not all of them are directly norse, some are linked to norse, or a medival ages version of it. Ŋatalyą Ƒinnley - Tell me sðmething I don’t know (nø really)  19:33, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

thank you but im fine with this and not many users like my style. <font color="NavyBlue">SΓΣamy <font color="Blue">Goreng 22:08, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

I hope I didn't make the situation too dramatic. Thanks for your sympathy, Menara. It's really nice of you. I hope it'll be over soon, but it's gonna take years. Lot's of them. I just realized I'm an idiot. I just read your answer about Elena in the novels being a slut and the ghostwriter thing. Finally sb agrees with me! She did everything to be with Stefan just to cheat on him with his brother. She's exactly the type of girl that I'd hate in real life too, not a character you can relate to. "Oh, I'm so pretty, everybody wants to be with me". So, my favorite characters. In the novels, Bonnie and Damon, I think their bond is amazing. They have real, genuine feelings for one another and she's the only human he feels that way about. I'd love to see them together, but like every guy, he thinks with his penis. In the series I actually like all of them, even the bad guys, but I love Caroline and Tyler, Damon, Stefan and from the recurring characters Anna. Mary! (talk &bull; contribs) 11:23, November 9, 2011 (UTC)

BTW, I don't know the other Greek girl. Athena mentioned the was another Greek, but I didn't know it was Artemis. Surprisingly, we have the same age. I'm thinking about leaving her a message. It's always nice to find someone from your country. I've talked to a guy on The Sims Wiki who happens to live in a city nearby and the funny thing was that we talked in English. What do you think? Mary! (talk &bull; contribs) 13:12, November 9, 2011 (UTC)

Hey. Yeah, you got it right. I AM BORED. Let's make up codenames =) I'll be the awesome Neptunian. lol (See the state of my boredom.) I'm having break now at school. Yeah, I hangout in the computer lab or the lib. most of the time Ąthέnά Lέάh Jάckson  ~Call me Leigh  15:34, November 9, 2011 (UTC)

Do you have to ask? Of course you can add me! Can you believe that this week's episode is the mid season finale of TVD? I don't think I can wait till 2012! BTW, do you watch The Secret Circle? Mary! (talk &bull; contribs) 15:47, November 9, 2011 (UTC)

Great, I knew you did! Faye is funny, but she's too jelous and possessive. I enjoyed the last episode. We got to see a whole new side of her, as well as Cassie's. Diana, on the other hand, is more difficult to judge. I don't know what to think of her yet, but I like the fact that she broke up with Adam and didn't hold a gudge at Cassie. But I don't really like Adam and the actor isn't that cute, so I think I want Cassie to end up with Jake instead. He sure made the show interesting. What do you think about killing off a main character after only 5 episodes? That sucked! Poor Nick.. Mary! (talk &bull; contribs) 16:04, November 9, 2011 (UTC)

I don't even know what that is.. Mary! (talk &bull; contribs) 16:31, November 9, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, now I get it! I noticed that. Maybe it's cuz he has thick eyelashes. How did you know about my non existent relationship with make up? You saw what I wrote to Athena, didn't you? :-D Mary! (talk &bull; contribs) 16:45, November 9, 2011 (UTC)

I love all the runes and rare letters and things, like the "ae" thing. I like the idea of Norse demigods, however, in norse mythology, there were no demigods. the stories were mainly about the norse gods messing up and ragnorok (the end of the world, impending doom, apocylpse etc. etc.). i dont know how rick riordans idea for a series is going to work....just have to wait and see, by that time i'll be in uni, and way to old, but i think that i will still read it...  Ŋatalyą Ƒinnley - Tell me sðmething I don’t know (nø really)  19:36, November 9, 2011 (UTC)

Oh, you're such a stalker! :D Mary! (talk &bull; contribs) 19:51, November 9, 2011 (UTC)

I don't know if we're gonna talk again, it's 10 pm here, so I'll just say "Gute Nacht". Mary! (talk &bull; contribs) 20:04, November 9, 2011 (UTC)

buds?  Athletiger <font color="CC0099">Talk~<font face="Calibri" size="2" color="#0519FA">Angelica Liu 05:21, November 10, 2011 (UTC)

We have like 45 mins of break. You go to an orchestra? Which instuments do you play? Ąthέnά Lέάh Jάckson   ~Call me Leigh  12:13, November 10, 2011 (UTC)

Well, if you saw a cat in the street and it was hurt, then you say, "Hey look at that cat. It's hurt!" If you think that the cat is a girl, (it just seems like a girl cat), then you say she, but thats up to you. If you start talking to someone who is walking their dog, and you think its a girl dog, so you say, "Whats her name?", then if it turns out to be a boy, you just smile (its happened to me a lot) If you don't know, then you say, "What's their name?", as opposed to it, because that could be considered mean (thats just me). Basically; it. Hope I hepled without confusing you too much.  Ŋatalyą Ƒinnley - Tell me sðmething I don’t know (nø really)  20:56, November 10, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah. It's the store brand.  Athletiger <font color="CC0099">Talk~<font face="Calibri" size="2" color="#0519FA">Angelica Liu 00:36, November 11, 2011 (UTC)