Bodast Posted November 19, 2007 Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 Well hai,I just discovered I have to tell my tutors tomorrow/soon what my plans are for my year abroad (2008-09) - the only rules are that I have to get fluent in my two languages (French and Czech) and I'd prefer at least some employment stuff so I can.. uh.. pay for a room and stuff, though if I make a case for something original they'll give me some cash. And I don't want to spend the whole year in Prague and Paris. So far I have:Work for a couple of months at Disneyland Paris (try to get promoted to a dressing up position)Do an internship at Prague Radio (they sometimes get to interview interesting people: actors who are filming thereabouts, politicians etc.)Try to get a job at Ceska Televize (next year Smicer is doing Czech Rep's Premiership programme, I might get to make him coffee...)Emm... au pair... a course at a university somewhere. Any inspiring suggestions?Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam 45 Posted November 19, 2007 Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 Once promoted to dressing up position, you should try and get promoted to rollercoaster tester. That's pretty much my dream job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steven Dedalus Posted November 19, 2007 Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 Why not invade one of the Czech states? I find that is the best way to pick up a new language, and it will show your tutors that you have drive and ambition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humey Whilem Posted November 19, 2007 Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 Go to Belgium. They speak French in one half and they have amazing beers & music. Go work in one of the breweries, learn some Jacques Brel songs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogofish Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 If you are still wowed by the idea of "cool stuff", maybe you should get back to college till you grow-up a bit more? Go when you are ready to properly appreciate other countries? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steven Dedalus Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 If you are still wowed by the idea of "cool stuff", maybe you should get back to college till you grow-up a bit more? Go when you are ready to properly appreciate other countries?What a ghastly fellow you are.Everyone loves 'cool stuff'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodast Posted November 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 If you are still wowed by the idea of "cool stuff", maybe you should get back to college till you grow-up a bit more? Go when you are ready to properly appreciate other countries?My deepest and most sincere apologies. I would write a long defence of my worldliness detailing all of the splendid appreciation of other countries that I have already completed, but I feel it would be wasted on someone who evidently doesn't realise that 'cool' has an enormous range of meanings and could be substituted for various more literary words, but is appropriate, thanks to its versatility, for a casual discussion on an internet forum which is dominated by young people who use it here and there with abandon to express all manners of positive attitude, (or, for that matter, someone who deigns to send me "back to college" when he himself/she herself doesn't know that 'grow up' is not a hyphenated verb). To the others, thanks for your ideas - WOW! - they sound really cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodast Posted November 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 Go to Belgium. They speak French in one half and they have amazing beers & music. Go work in one of the breweries, learn some Jacques Brel songs!By the way, I really like this idea (I had a vague idea of going to Northern France/Lille area anyway so it's quite close). What's the public transport like in the French speaking area as a whole, do you know? I was in Hasselt and I was really delighted, but I believe it's run by the mayor of each place. (?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluesxman Posted November 20, 2007 Report Share Posted November 20, 2007 My deepest and most sincere apologies. I would write a long defence of my worldliness detailing all of the splendid appreciation of other countries that I have already completed, but I feel it would be wasted on someone who evidently doesn't realise that 'cool' has an enormous range of meanings and could be substituted for various more literary words, but is appropriate, thanks to its versatility, for a casual discussion on an internet forum which is dominated by young people who use it here and there with abandon to express all manners of positive attitude, (or, for that matter, someone who deigns to send me "back to college" when he himself/she herself doesn't know that 'grow up' is not a hyphenated verb). To the others, thanks for your ideas - WOW! - they sound really cool. unfortunately I cannot give reputation for this post but....nice one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogofish Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 but is appropriate, thanks to its versatility You are kidding? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogofish Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 What a ghastly fellow you are.Everyone loves 'cool stuff'.Try me on a bad dayNope. I detest the concept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodast Posted November 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 You are kidding?Howja mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steven Dedalus Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Try me on a bad dayNope. I detest the concept.As a French person once said to me, "Ees a shame for you."Now, I will let you get back to your life of misery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogofish Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Howja mean?Seems too much of a vacuous or instant self-gratification thing. Also I've a distrust of anything that seems to legitimise selfish self-interest in any way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodast Posted November 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2007 Seems too much of a vacuous or instant self-gratification thing. Also I've a distrust of anything that seems to legitimise selfish self-interest in any way.Although I find it heart-warming that you feel you know me well enough to make assumptions about me from a couple of posts (couple of words??) on here, I feel you've misconstrued my wishes... and although I plan for the year to gratify me (well, I've been given twelve months in which I'm still tecnically at uni but in which I can do, to a degree, whatever I want; of course I want to have fun) and will probably be a somewhat egotistical in doing so, I'm looking for suggestions that might potentially make it less vacuous (and leaving the interpretation of 'less vacuous' up to my ardent readership). Maybe I should have explained that in the thread title _ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogofish Posted November 22, 2007 Report Share Posted November 22, 2007 Fine, make someting of it then. Just don't be one of those characters who are trying to obliterate whatever percieved gap is in their personality/image by the singular pursuit of cool.Hmm..StudentAbout to take a year outVerboseLittle bit full of yourself? and will probably be a somewhat egotistical in doing so, <snip> up to my ardent readership.(Well, you said it! )Maybe don't know you but I think I know your ilk well enough.Have fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodast Posted November 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2007 Hmm. Well for the second time in this thread I'd like to extend my apologies, and this time they are at least semi-sincere because, although it doesn't particularly matter what persona I present online, I'd rather not be seen as exactly that student type. Sorry if I come across as obnoxious/a bit of a dick, it's juvenileness and the reason I don't write blogs.At the same time, c'mon, I'm 19, I have to do the year abroad anyway, and I'm going to pursue cool at the same time like my life depends on it while I have the chance. (Provided cool = riding trams for days on end and comparing past participles in Moravian and Bohemian dialects, which is what I will be doing if I can't figure out a goddamn plan!) Don't you remember being young and carefree? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted November 22, 2007 Report Share Posted November 22, 2007 personally i just read 'cool' as 'fun and interesting'; i think the fact i cannot fathom what the fuck either of you two have been debating the past few posts shows it was best to keep it simple o_O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodast Posted November 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2007 personally i just read 'cool' as 'fun and interesting'; i think the fact i cannot fathom what the fuck either of you two have been debating the past few posts shows it was best to keep it simple o_OWell that was the planned meaning... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steven Dedalus Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 You wanna know what cool is, check this out, y'all:Oh, wait a minute! That's just a picture of me from ages ago looking really fat and beardy!I meant this is what cool is: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 why are there so many twats picking up on tiny little things that just don't amount to a hill of beans.I read Bodast's post as something pretty exciting and interesting...I use "cool" a lot, and not in the "spotty pre-pubescent geek" context that Pogofish was ..... parping....on about.Stop being pedantic and miserable and get on with being cool in life....hey! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 Steve....you look like you are in the middle of filling your underpants to capacity, whilst being shocked by a loose earth in the mike.now...these are cool cats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodast Posted November 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 Maybe I should spend the year trying to define cool with the ultimate aim of publishing a coffee table book of 'cool' pictures. "Fat and Beardy" by Steven Dedalus on the front cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steven Dedalus Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 Only if I can write the introduction.And it has to include a recent photo of me entitiled, "Slim and Handsome." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted November 23, 2007 Report Share Posted November 23, 2007 now...horrible self promotion like that is NOT cool...get me to do it for you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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