Applauding the Founders of Said Forum

[bigbadbeth]

Alrighty folks. Time for some pats on the back.

After parousing "Outside" this evening after working at my own pieces in "Charon's Schooner", I'd like to extend a thanks to the PFFA and its mods in general.
If it weren't for this board, I think I would still be trouncing around this world with the notion that "I am a poet" and the big frickin ego that accompanies that statement. I joined this board when I was a senior in high school (12th grade for anyone outside the states) and I am now a senior in my undergrad program, looking at taking on a MFA in Poetry. This site has taught me to take criticism well, to give constructive criticism, as well as understand that which is poetry.
I don't know who turned me onto this forum, or who started it, or who keeps it going, but we've got a great thing going ladies and gents.

Let's keep it up. :)

[bigbadbeth]

that's a correction. been here since i was a junior in high school. (i'm on the 3-year college plan).

[David Bowers]

I'm always up for the periodic PFFA love-bus.

Yay PFFA!

Dave.

[BrianIsSmilingAtYou]

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[ath8na]

I (*counts in head*) fourth! I fourth the motion!

[sarahkelley]

I would still be trouncing around this world with the notion that "I am a poet"

Amen sister. Thank PFFA, Bela, all the mods, long time posters and everyone else for teaching me better and giving me something semi-constructive to do for three or four hours a day.
Ya'll are wonderful.

Sarah

[mindsweeper]

Hear hear, to bring a bit of British reservation. (Try saying that quickly!)

Reservation of expression, that is, not of plaudits.

Ruth

[Dunc]

bbb -

You like this place? So do I.

Its creator is Béla Selendy. Praise to his name.

And after that, all those mods, now and then, who've made it happen.

Regards / Dunc

[bigbadbeth]

what is it you brits cheer? huzzah?

well then, a hoorah and a huzzah for Béla ! :D


bigbadbeth,
who has been learning
about British culture from
too many films like
Pirates of the Caribbean

[Harry R]

I joined this board when I was a senior in high school (12th grade for anyone outside the states)

OK, I know that this is a silly bit of pedantry, and I'm trying to resist it, but - why would '12th grade' be any clearer to me, as a foreigner, than 'senior in high school'?

Harry

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[Rachel Bunting]

For clarification:

Senior in high school = 12th grade = 17 years old (or thereabouts, though I had a classmate who was 20 when I was a senior).

Generally speaking, we start first grade at about 6. Add a year for each year, get it?

[bigbadbeth]

i dunno. if you count 1st grade as the beginning of grammar school, (that's about 6 or 7 years old) then 12th... whatever.
elementary school is K (kindergarten) through 6th grade, junior high is 7th and 8th grade (sometimes 9th too, depending on the school district) and high school is 9th through 12th grade.

how does the school system in England work? 12th grade/senior in high school would be the last year of required public schooling before college in the states.
this is a horrible reference, but if I was at Hogwarts when I signed up on PFFA, I would have been a 6th year (as a junior)... 7th year would equal senior in high school (or 12th grade).

I'm going to get my bachelor of arts in creative writing in three years, and I was always the youngest in my class (late birthday in October.) therefore, I graduated high school at 17 (most American kids graduate at 18) and I will have a BA before I'm 21. (at least, that's the goal.)

[tbm]

I'm going to get my bachelor of arts in creative writing in three years . . . before I'm 21.

At that rate, you'll break the poverty line by 35.

Thanks, Bela. It's a grand thing you do.

bates