Actually, it's kinda weird...a lot of schools in America don't even follow the same routine. Like, when I was growing up, we didn't have a spring break. We did during my last couple years in high school. I always found that odd. But we always ended up other longer breaks or something like that. And I always loved that our school would get out for summer a lot earlier than schools in the state right next to us. For the 'United States', we definitely do a lot of random individual state things. (Like, Arizona doesn't even follow Daylight Savings Time.) And I don't think it's weird, I just don't understand why we're not all on the same page with stuff.

Speaking of the "autumn/fall" thing, how come America is the only country who doesn't use the metric system?

Who knows, America is a bit of an odd country in certain ways. I would much prefer them to use the metric system, it would be so much easier. Words are also spelt different between USA and Australia. Example - Colour > Color. Down here - College and Highschool are exactly the same thing. After College/Highschool yr 7 to year 12, you go to Uni. (University). I'll look around to see if America will actually use the metric system within the next 50 years or so, very doubtful.

My science teacher disapproves of using America's system. He say we should always use the Metric system in his class. I think its stupid we don't use it. Its so much easier. About the Colour/Color thing, I think its because of accents. Could be wrong. Besides, why spell Color with the U anyway? One less letter to put, the better .

Also, I started school today .

Yeah. In any science class I've taken, it's the same way - we use the metric system. And it is kind of weird that we dropped one letter from words like that. It's like the whole 'grey/gray' thing. I swear it's because some American citizen long ago decided to make things as complicated as possible for the future.

^ Ha! You're not alone because neither do I.
Somebody told me awhile back, but I forgot.

I meant to post about 9/11. Very tragic. It kinda made me a lil' mad at the time. I thought about that I was in school. It was VERY immature of him to do that. Also, Unhappy 9/11 to you as well. Hehe. :/ Didn't really think about it like that.

TJ12 - I was just thinking about that earlier when I thought of it being 9/11. I remember coming on this thread and talking about where we were when it happened and last year, I think I started a 'moment of typing silence' sort of thing. Then, I realized how fast these years are going, not to mention how long I've been on here.

It kind of makes me wanna go back through some of these threads to look at some really old discussions because I know my views on some things (at least iCarly-related anyway) have changed drastically since then. I can't even remember a time I wasn't on this forum, but I know for sure I wasn't.

I'll be completely honest, though, I kind of forgot it was 9/11 at first. I thought about it last night and forgot about it until I heard "Proud to Be an American" at the cafe on campus around noon. They also had the memorial ceremony on, but I couldn't hear it at all. And I only saw a small bit of it. Although, I did see a picture on Facebook of the construction site and how far they are now.

I forgot until I started reading the news (can't watch anymore everybody trying to force their politics on you) then I said some prayers. Mr. Obama spoke at the Pentagon memorial yesterday.

Can't believe it's been 11 years since 9/11. Time flies.

TJ12 - Thanks and yeah, it is. One of the first things that came to mind when I thought about old topics was the the Seddie thread haha. I remember how big of a Seddier I was back then. Not as crazy as some people were but definitely a fan. There's also that HUGE section of off-topicness in that thread. Of course...it's still kinda like that I guess. I also remember some of the users who haven't been on in a really long time.

Marc - Hot, if I know right. Where I live, that's basically about the temperature it's been all summer.

30C is sorta hot. 30C = 86F. It reached 30C on Christmas day last year where I live. On new years eve, it reached 35.6C / 96F. Our summers can get hot.

And here I thought we had hot Christmas' in Georgia. The one time it snowed (that I can remember) we all just went ballistic and it was probably not even an inch.