Post everytime you look

[Iure]

Not really (not when it's my money, lol)

I forgot it's daylight savings time today, I woke up with the news on the radio and they said "it;s 8:30 blahblahbla..." and my foggy brain thought 'but my alarmclock says 9:30...' It took me half an hour to realise I'd forgotten to change the time last night

[Erutanie]

lol. Daylight savings time don't end until sat/sun.....they change it during the week? weird...it's always like sun at 1 AM officially here....

[Iure]

And this morning I had my clock all wrong again, I had to get up at a quarter to eight (school at 9AM) , so I set my alarm at 8:45 (brilliant, huh?) So I woke up at 8:20 and thought: "Ooh, nice I still have some time before the alarm goes off.... wait a minute.... SHOOT!!! I need to run!!!!"

And I was even at school on time!

[Erutanie]

I've done the same thing before. My chuch starts at 11 Am on sundays. I set my alarm for 10:30 to give myself an hour and a half to get ready. I was a little bit late for church though, lol.

[Iure]

I got a jigsaw for my birthday (belated present ) It's glow-in-the-dark, depicting two tigers with a huge moon behind them. It's all in black, white and blue though... and a 1000 pieces

[Erutanie]

Sounds awesome, but also sounds difficult to put together.

[Iure]

Don't get me started... Now I only got the sky bit left, but it's all black with a few white spots (stars). It's hopeless.... *sighs*

[Erutanie]

Sounds complicated.

One time I tried to do a holographic puzzle. It was hard. The image on each piece moved. There was pieces missing though.

[Iure]

I always wanted a holographic puzzle, but they were way too expensive and when I had saved enough money, they were no longer in the shops.

I could order one online, but now I no longer have the money, lol.

[Erutanie]

I had never seen one until that puzzle.

[Iure]

I'll get my first month of scholarship in December... They somehow lost my first application, and I only sent in a second one because I hoped it would speed things up. Luckily it sort of did, but a month too late. All the other Dutch students got their money last Friday

[Erutanie]

How do scholarships work over there?

[Iure]

Well, there is an organisation in NL, called the IB-group, and when you are going to college or university, you can fill out an application if you want financial support. You can get 4 years of funding, each month about €80 if you live with your parents, €250 if you live on your own. When you get a college or university diploma within 10 years (starting from your first month of funding) your built up debt will be turned into a gift and you won't have to pay anything back. You also get the travelcard: so you can travel for free by bus, train, etc either during the week or in the weekends (you can choose) This is also a gift.
When, after those 4 years, you haven't finished school yet, or are studying something else (a lot of students switch after their first year) you can start a loan at the IB-group. This you do have to pay back afterwards, but their terms are way better than any other bank.

I already had almost 4 years of financing (just two months left) so in February I start my loan.

[Erutanie]

ahh....here there are countless scholarship organizations. There is federal funding available (which goes down each time you get a scholarship...seriously I'd get $1000 scholarship and hardly have $100-200 more funding) you have to fill out a FAFSA form. There are endless scholarships you can apply for. Some are general, some are achievement or goal specific, and some are just random drawings. There are also grants (free money). They basically give you a check and you spend it on WHATEVER you want (it's recommended you spend it on school). You don't need to pay those back. Then there are loans, which very few college students don't get into their first year. (I was lucky I only needed like $3000 in loans this year, the other $20,000+ was covered by scholarships. Full tuitution of $21000 was very nice, plus another couple scholarships....and I still needed loans....). We have the option of purchasing a bus/trax (train subway thing) pass for $15, good for 1 year (considering normal fare is $3 round trip on trax, never rode the bus. I'm not sure how much a regular pass for that time is, but 5 times and pays for itself.)

you get 250 a month?

[Iure]

a pass for $15, good for one year.... do you know how much the travelcard (1 yr) costs when you have to buy it? More than €2000.... But you can go everywhere within the country (which would be a small part of Utah, lol)