Q. and A. Time

Just a little peek at how well our kids are learning in school these days . Here are a few answers from exams kids have taken.

Q. What is Sir Walter Raleigh famous for ?
 A. Her is a noted historical figure that started the craze for bicycles and invented cigarettes .

Q.What did Mahatma Gandhi and Genghis Khan have in common ?
A. Unusual names ?

Q. Name a great early Roman achievement .
A. Learning to speak Latin ?

Q. Name 6 Arctic animals living in the Arctic .
A. 2 polar bears and three four seals ?

Q.Where was the Declaration of Independence signed ?
A. At the bottom of the page ?

Q. What is the meaning of the word varicose ?
A. Near by ?

Q. What is a fibula ?
A. A little lie ?

Q.Explain the phrase free press .
A. Is that when your mom irons all your clothes for you ?

Q. Why would living near a mobile phone mast cause ill health ?
A. You might walk into one ?

Q. Jane works in a office . She has a stand alone computer system . Define stand alone system .
A. A computer that doesn't come with a chair ?

Q. Steve is driving his car . He is traveling at 60 ft. per second and the speed limit is 40 miles an hour . Is he speeding ?
A. He should just look at his speedometer !

Q. Give a reason people might want to live near power lines .
A. They would get their electricity faster ?

Q. What is a vibration ?
A. There are Good Vibrations and there are Bad Vibrations , Good Vibrations were discovered in the 1960's .

Q.The race of people known as Malays were from which country ?
A. Malaria ?

 

I Was Tagged

Amreekia min Bab Al Sharayah has tagged me from her blog . She asks me a very loaded question that I guess most of us has asked ourselves at some place in time ; " Is there anything in your life you would like to do over if you had the chance ? " She wants details too ! OH MY !!! This is something that requires a lot of thought .

The easy answer would be the standard one ... No Way , but I think that would be hypocritical to say that , don't you ? To be honest , I am sure most people at one point in their lives have said , at least just to themselves ," If I could do this all over I would " . You know you have .

But can I pin it down to just a simple answer ? Hum ... not too sure . I am a Virgo and , we LOVE DETAILS !!! LOL ! So , yes , there are a few things I would change if I could .

I like perfection . I realize it is a impossibility in real life to achieve . While on the other hand I am basically a lazy person , which makes this trait frustrating all on it's own to live with sometimes . So , I guess I would like to be more pro active in my own life and not an observer as such .

I would have been a better mother to my children and less a parent . There is a difference you know . Parenting is a discipline and mothering is nurturing . I would have been more consistent . A " Leave It To Beaver " sorta mom , or a " Soccer MOM ", as Sarah Palin describes in her speeches . My children met people of all walks of life so that they would be tolerant of " Differences " , accepting of "Others" . I think I would have added along with the culture they were exposed to , more academics . I was blind sided by that one , not stressing studies more , or rather insisting on academic excellence . Yep , I would definitely have demanded better grades in school from them "If" I had it to do all over again .

I would have placed them under a Bell Jar forever to protect them from all the horrors the world would later hurl at them when they became older . I would have kissed every single boo boo and every single ow wee and kissed each and every tear away from those tender checks . I would have said "I love you" until they screamed for me to stop .

That's what I would do over if I could . I just have to hope and pray that one day they will come to realize that I did the best I could at the time, with all the love a mother can hold in her heart , to make them into the wonderful individuals they are today .

If I have tagged you , please answer my question on your blog as a post . Title it .. " I was Tagged " duh ! Then for chuckles and grins tag five or more other people !
So ......... Tag , you it !

Rosebud ....... Please tell us how you feel about being married and waiting for your first baby to be born . Details please , lol .

Serena........ Please describe to us how you paint with words ,a picture so clearly .

Khadijateri ....... Tell us about the roses you've stop to smell recently in your busy life that you normally wouldn't .

Caught In The Middle ........ Please share with us the thing you love most about living here . The Libyan thing that gives you greatest pleasure .

a-akak ....... What makes you laugh until tears roll down your face ?

Khalid Jorni ......... If you fell in love with a foreign woman , would you marry her anyway ?

My Wish List For Libya

Public acknowledgment that there is a large alcohol and drug problem .


Public acknowledgment that there is a large Aids epidemic in Libya .


Have a public education program in the schools , on TV and radio to raise awareness of these diseases , how to prevent them, and the treatment available if contracted .


Have Aids , alcohol , and drug treatment centers with medicines and counsellings for Aids victims , alcoholics ,drug addicted persons,and their family members readily available to all without fear of any reprisals at a nominal fee , if not free , this is Libya after all , rich oil state.


Have hospitals treat these people as if they were any other patient .


Have treatment for these people that are incarcerated in prisons .


This is the short list for now .