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Date Posted: 19:37:11 09/29/12 Sat
Hi Lucy,
Sorry I haven't responded in a while. I've also been busy with schoolwork and the times I do get on here, I only have enough time to write short questions/responses. Chicago was great, but from what I've seen and heard about Edinburgh, it won't compare.
I hope you manage to get into the University of Edinburgh. When will you have to apply? The American system is very confusing. The states are given power for education, so some of the states use one curriculum, other states use another, and so on. My friend moved from Texas a few years ago and she was taught exactly the opposite of what we were learning. Even today, the grade point average system that my state uses is completely confusing to her. It doesn't help that we're going to learn a whole new grading system in high school. So I can't really tell you much. I've heard in England that there is an A level. What's that?
The president is both the prime minister and a king in the way. But, he's still very limited in the way in which he could "run a country." Nothing can be done without Congress's approval. It's funny because people blame the president for overspending, but Congress decides the spending. The president only decides the budget. The same thing with this year's election. Voters are looking for candidates that will change the economy or maybe foreign policy with everything happening in Libya, but the present Congress, out of 111 other Congresses in the past two centuries, have gotten the least amount of things done and the least amount of bills passed. The president proposed many bills to change the economy, but the Tea Party made a pact of sorts to stop every bill the president proposes. Unless the president gives out executive orders, he's not running a country. He's helping to run the country.
Thanks for explaining it. I always got confused because I assumed that Prince Phillip was a distant relative or something, not her husband. Don't worry about rambling. I'm guilty of it, too.
Sailing's grown on me, but, in the morning, I was trying to show my friends basic sailing skills (because those are the only ones I know). It worked out fine, except for the minor detail that we crashed into a tree.
So football it is for them.
Hope to hear from you soon.
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