Re: Life in the Snow BBC1
Originally Posted by
basser
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Many years age we had a pair of young girl students stay with us from Norway for a month to study English, they were lovely girls and so well mannered, have met a few since then and they all seem to be very nice people.
Nice to hear that. They are well mannered as are the boys as well. Of course like anywhere some have their problems
They do tend to mature at an earlier age, maybe because many of them at 16 go to higher education and will at that age be living away from home on their own.
I dont know if its a good thing or a bad thing to say that at 15 their English in general is far better than my Norwegian will ever be. Many of them at 17 are fluent in English.
There is still Military service here for both male and female and no quarter given. They do exactly the same training, and those training for the " Kings Guard" equivalent to the Guards regiments in the uk share the same rooms as the men without any problems, imagine that in the U K