(01-16-2017, 09:43 AM)GI-Land Wrote: If you need help learning German, you can write with me. I'd be glad to help you (It's a serious offer, whether you want/can make it to Germany in the long term or not.)

*serves you some snacks, because when telling stories, you not only need booze but also snacks*

I'll consider it, thanks However, my main focus now is preparing for university while surviving the crisis. My aunt once said that, once this is over, whoever stays in here will have more chances to get jobs, due to all the people who have already left.

*eats snacks*

GI-Land Wrote:I thought about studying history as well, because German history is quite interesting
I even had an advanced course in it, when doing my A-Levels, but in the end, the low income I'd get and the sometimes pretty dry parts of theory, that wouldn't interest me, scared me away from that subject :S
Now studying transportation with going in depth regarding planning and operation, but....maths is killing me.
There's still the chance, I'm changing my subject.

He. Precisely one the reasons I chose history is because I absolutely despise math and want to be as far away as possible from it xD

(01-16-2017, 06:58 PM)Ausstan Wrote: History isn't that bad. Unless you live in Australia. It is very Australia focused for most of primary school/early high school, and we don't know much about Australia with the aboriginals, so you have about 250 years of history to learn. I have done 3 years of history just about Australia's role in ww1/2 alone. I've dropped history as a subject now, but I have a big interest in history in Europe. Even if I did want to keep on doing it, I am trying to get into a science course so that wouldn't help much.

We suffer from the same problem here, but on a lesser scale. We have a bit more to learn (about 500 years, plus aboriginal cultures. It helps that Venezuela was one of the first places settled by the Spanish colonists, being visited by Columbus himself and all). We usually alternate between pre-colonial and colonial history and War of Independence (1500's-1830) and modern history (1830-present day) each year. We only see world history in 8th grade, which is a shame. The problem is that most of what we see either comes with heavy bias/propaganda; for example, the Independence War part either casually overlooks or downplays the atrocities committed by the Patriot forces against civilians, or justifies them as necessary. The silver lining is that, due to the unstable nature of our politics during the 19th and early 20th centuries, which includes at least ten coups/civil wars, that part is usually interesting. There's also a time (in 1902), when both the British and the Germans attempted to blockade us to force us to pay debts and we managed to not end up destroyed