One proud Mom tonight [Archive]

Mom

19th July 2008, 17:36

Bren

19th July 2008, 17:44

good on her.....
Good language to know...My brother ended up going to Sendai University and now is an engineer for Honda
Whats your daughter planning on doing after graduating?

Mom

19th July 2008, 17:48

good on her.....
Good language to know...My brother ended up going to Sendai University and now is an engineer for Honda
Whats your daughter planning on doing after graduating?

Rach was an exchange student to Sendai High School 5 years ago...LOL.

She recently got a part time job as a tour party liason officer for an inbound tour company that arranges school tours from Japan. She will keep at that, and her beloved Horsey jobs...LOL till the end of the year anyway.

She has always wanted to go to Japan and teach, so she will probably look at that next year. There is a huge amount of very well paid work there if she wants to take it.

Gubb

19th July 2008, 17:52

Rach was an exchange student to Sendai High School 5 years ago...LOL.

She recently got a part time job as a tour party liason officer for an inbound tour company that arranges school tours from Japan. She will keep at that, and her beloved Horsey jobs...LOL till the end of the year anyway.

She has always wanted to go to Japan and teach, so she will probably look at that next year. There is a huge amount of very well paid work there if she wants to take it.

Awesome work Rach!

Let me know if she is keen on the teaching thing, I had a cousin that did just that for two years and loved it, can flick you his e-mail if she's keen.

Mom

19th July 2008, 17:56

Awesome work Rach!

Let me know if she is keen on the teaching thing, I had a cousin that did just that for two years and loved it, can flick you his e-mail if she's keen.

Thanks for that. She loves the culture, the food (apart from the time her host Mother put raw horse meat spagetti in front of her once LOL). The school year there starts July. So she has a bit of time to decide. At the moment her main priority is get the debt off her back. Horses and full time study make for very poor daughters...LOL

1 Free Man

19th July 2008, 17:57

I just got a phone call from my eldest daughter. She lives in Hamilton and has been doing a BA in Japanese for the past few years at Waikato Uni.

She has just received her final mark for her last paper, a B no less, and an invitation to graduate in October!

:banana: :banana: :banana:

I am so proud of her!

:sunny:Nice one Mom. Don't ya just love it when your kids do ya proud like that. Congratulations to the young lady concerned:first:

Mom

19th July 2008, 18:05

:sunny:Nice one Mom. Don't ya just love it when your kids do ya proud like that. Congratulations to the young lady concerned:first:

I will probably cry when I see her get her Diploma. And yes I am feeling pretty damn happy tonight. Thank you.

NZsarge

19th July 2008, 18:21

Nice! :niceone:

Jez

19th July 2008, 18:25

Mom

19th July 2008, 18:41

congratulations to the young lady in question ...

i thought having a Japanese wife would make learning Japanese easy, hells no, i can still only order a beer, ask how much it costs, ask if they can make it cheaper, and ask girls for a b.....ackrub, yeah a backrub:confused:

Rach tells me it is a lazy mouth language, lots of common sounds with Maori. Hope that helps lol :confused: I can not speak any really but surprisingly I can understand a bit?

carver

19th July 2008, 18:50

I just got a phone call from my eldest daughter. She lives in Hamilton and has been doing a BA in Japanese for the past few years at Waikato Uni.

She has just received her final mark for her last paper, a B no less, and an invitation to graduate in October!

:banana: :banana: :banana:

I am so proud of her!

introduce her to the few and she can come with us for a "ride"

terbang

19th July 2008, 18:59

Good on her, interesting place Japan with lots happening.

alanzs

19th July 2008, 19:41

Sounds like she should be ordering sushi the next time she takes you out! Congrats!

Mom

19th July 2008, 19:48

Sounds like she should be ordering sushi the next time she takes you out! Congrats!

Thank you. Interestinly enough the call ended with food. Apparently I get to buy her dinner? Love it!

Stickchick

19th July 2008, 19:51

Thats awesome to hear Mom!!!! Congrats to Rachel :clap:. I took Japanese for school cert and failed miserably :( Bigs ups to her for mastering the language

jrandom

19th July 2008, 19:57

Congratulations!

A quiet word in Rachel's ear, though - if she ever gets lonely over in Nippon, she needs to find the foreigner hangouts in her area rather than trying to, er, 'integrate'.

Based on Japanese condom sizes and a few odd subtitled porn movies which I'd really rather forget, I'm pretty sure that Japanese men have really small willies.

alanzs

19th July 2008, 19:57

Thank you. Interestinly enough the call ended with food. Apparently I get to buy her dinner? Love it!

I do understand. I look forward to the day when my grown kids pay for dinner as well... :msn-wink:

How is it that every time the kids call, money seems to creep into the conversation? My wife and I laugh "How much did this call cost us this time?" Gotta love 'em though, 'cause you can't sell 'em or eat 'em...

Mom

19th July 2008, 20:04

I do understand. I look forward to the day when my grown kids pay for dinner as well... :msn-wink:

How is it that every time the kids call, money seems to creep into the conversation? My wife and I laugh "How much did this call cost us this time?" Gotta love 'em though, 'cause you can't sell 'em or eat 'em...

She is on tough love as far as money goes :killingme

alanzs

19th July 2008, 20:23

She is on tough love as far as money goes :killingme

I usually just drag out the conversation to see how long it takes before the inevitable question pops up:

"Dad, I need ________ (fill in the blank) for school, the car, whatever and I have been working really hard, but can you help me out, please, I know you said you wouldn't, as I am working, but blah, blah, blah..."

I usually give in (or split it with them), my wife hits me, tells me I spoil the kids and I swear to not give in again, next time. :niceone:

MyGSXF

19th July 2008, 20:38

WOOHOO!! :woohoo: That's awesome news babe!!! :hug: Huge congrats to Rachel!!!! :first: In this day & age.. it is a valuable language to know! :yes:

ps: take tissues to her graduation.. LOTS & LOTS of tissues!!! :crybaby::crybaby: :msn-wink:

Laava

19th July 2008, 23:11

Congrats Anne, you are obviously very proud!

Toaster

19th July 2008, 23:28

Congrats! party at your place huh?:beer:

kerfufflez

20th July 2008, 01:36

The school year there starts July. So she has a bit of time to decide.

Congratulations to you and your daughter.

Just in case you're not aware, the process for the JET (English teaching) programme takes absolutely ages, i.e apply in Oct/Nov for starting work the following July/August.

Mom

20th July 2008, 08:23

Congrats! party at your place huh?:beer:

What a good idea. Been a while since we had a bit of a do here, away to talk to Maha!

Mrs Busa Pete

20th July 2008, 09:12

Send Rachel pete and my congratulation. She will be glad that her schooling is over now won't she. Now she can concentrate on coming home and saving some money.

Mom

20th July 2008, 09:26

Send Rachel pete and my congratulation. She will be glad that her schooling is over now won't she. Now she can concentrate on coming home and saving some money.

She cant come home! I can not graze 3 horses and house her working dog...LOL.

She has a really good job at the moment, and has her horses being grazed in return for giving riding lessons to a grandson. She has finally managed to get her ex to leave the house and has 2 flatmates on board. She reckons by the end of the year she will have her debt clear and be able to actually make some serious plans.

Shaun

20th July 2008, 10:01

Rach was an exchange student to Sendai High School 5 years ago...LOL.

She recently got a part time job as a tour party liason officer for an inbound tour company that arranges school tours from Japan. She will keep at that, and her beloved Horsey jobs...LOL till the end of the year anyway.

She has always wanted to go to Japan and teach, so she will probably look at that next year. There is a huge amount of very well paid work there if she wants to take it.

Lots of horse work over there as well. congats on her BA

japanese is not the easiest the learn, I had to learn it very fast a few years back by living over there, on a Horse farm, I do believe KIWI's ( Due to the Maori language) pick up speaking Japanese easily, as the sound is the same

Mom

20th July 2008, 10:07

Lots of horse work over there as well. congats on her BA

japanese is not the easiest the learn, I had to learn it very fast a few years back by living over there, on a Horse farm, I do believe KIWI's ( Due to the Maori language) pick up speaking Japanese easily, as the sound is the same

Rach tells me it is a lazy mouth language, with lots of tonal sounds like Maori. I can still hear her talking to her host father on the phone when she got back to NZ and been blown away.
Rach is big time into her horses, and did a stint of jockey training a couple of years ago. She does a bit of part time work up here for a riding establishment that host Japanese tour parties for rides. I have no idea what whe will end up doing, but picking the Japanese and horse thing will be the mainstay of it.

Nasty

20th July 2008, 10:49

Mom your girl done good ... congrats to her and yourself for the work that has gone into this one!!

yungatart

20th July 2008, 10:57

Fantastic news! It is no surprise that Rachel would be successful, look at her mother!
Awesome news!
Tart sends hugs!

scumdog

20th July 2008, 11:01

I just got a phone call from my eldest daughter. She lives in Hamilton and has been doing a BA in Japanese for the past few years at Waikato Uni.

She has just received her final mark for her last paper, a B no less, and an invitation to graduate in October!

:banana: :banana: :banana:

I am so proud of her!

No.1 son has just done much the same with Chinese at Otago Uni, off to China soon.

Mom

20th July 2008, 11:02

No.1 son has just done much the same with Chinese at Otago Uni, off to China soon.

Exciting stuff eh? Makes you feel really good!

RantyDave

20th July 2008, 11:05

BA in Japanese
Japanese! She doesn't do things by halves then, eh?

Well done Rach!

Dave

GurlRacer

20th July 2008, 23:12

Mom

24th July 2008, 21:25

Woah... wicked!!! I studied Japanese for 5 years at intermediate/high school and stayed there for a month or so a year back but after living in Norway for a year I've forgotten almost everything :(

I know it's a very difficult language to learn so a big congrats to your daughter!!! :D And what an amazing grade! Treat her to some sushi ;) hehe.

She can come make some for me...if she pays :devil2:

I have so many bottles and packets in my pantry that I have no idea what is in them it is not funny :yes:

BTW, give yourself a few days listening to the language being spoken, bet you remember more than you realise!