Random memory

[pne]

When I was a little kid, in first and second grade or so, we had "Library" as a lesson once a week, where we'd go to the library and have the librarian show us things or read us books or whatever.

At the end, we got to check out books if we wanted, but no more than one per week in first grade and two per week in second grade. (I forgot how it went up after that.)

I remember feeling awfully frustrated because I got through my books a lot faster than one or two a week, but we weren't allowed to check out any more books until next week.

Oh, and while we were in Junior School, we weren't allowed to check out any books from the Middle/Senior School combined library. (The other way around was allowed, though.)

P.S. New icon, ganked from chrissie_t; original picture from the "Pearls before Swine" comic.

Comments

[swelegant.livejournal.com]

It was exactly like that for me as well :)

[volantwish]

i was lucky enough to go to an elementary school with a friendlier check-out policy. as i recall, we couldn't have more than 4 or 5 at a time, but we were allowed to go by the library to return and/or check-out whenever we wanted.

(thumbs up to pearls before swine.)

[tungol.livejournal.com]

"Oh, and while we were in Junior School, we weren't allowed to check out any books from the Middle/Senior School combined library. (The other way around was allowed, though.)"

That's funny, you'd almost think they didn't want people to be able to learn more than they were "supposed to" at their level.

[leora.livejournal.com]

The public library was the limit of how far I was allowed to travel alone in that direction when I was a child. There were other borders for other directions, but the public library was within my go to it alone distance, so I could go there whenever I wanted to. So, of course, I didn't see much use to it until I was much older. But that's because I had so many books at home that it was a long time before I'd want something and couldn't find something I'd be happy with just by looking around my own house. There were many things I didn't have in my childhood that I wish I did, but I was fortunate enough to always have a large quantity of good books.

[sovereigna.livejournal.com]

I had a similar problem. My parents were always very involved with teaching us to read at a young age- so by the time I reached preschool and grade one I was already reading books way past my age- but we were only allowed to take out one book a week.

We got over it however, cause we were members of the council library too, and each person could take out up to 7 books a week there (we had four people in our family). ;)

I remember them giving us Library Bags (very big deal made), which were big enough to hold only one book, and me asking if there were any bigger bags. They were like "why? You're only allowed to take out one book at a time". Agh.

[me-and.livejournal.com]

I can remember at the end of every year, the librarians at my high school would do a print out of the top 10 borrowers over the year. I was consistantly on top, with about double the closest contender. As part of our English work, we had to write a mini-review of every book we read, and keep it in our file, so the teachers could keep track of what we were reading. Generally, my section for the reviews (about 4 per page of A4) was about the same size as the section for real work...

[elgrande.livejournal.com]

"Pearls before Swine"

Hat das irgendetwas mit der deutschen Redensart "Perlen vor die Säue werfen" zu tun? Gibt es einen ähnlichen Ausdruck im Englischen?

Pearls before Swine

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ich habe keine Ahnung, wie der Webcomic zu seinem Namen kam.

Es gibt aber tatsächlich diesen Ausdruck im Englischen -- was vielleicht nicht weiter verwunderlich ist wenn man bedenkt, dass der Ausdruck aus der Bibel kommt (Matthew 7:6 (http://scriptures.lds.org/matt/7/6#6), Matthäus 7:6 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/index.php?search=matthaeus%207:6&version1=10)) und daher Teil der "Kulturgeschichte" beider Sprachen ist.

(Obwohl nicht alle biblischen Ausdrücke in allen Sprachen zu Redewendungen werden, z.B. ist "es fiel mir wie Schuppen von den Augen" vermutlich aus Apostelgeschichte 9:18 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Apostelgeschichte%209:18;&version=10;), aber im Englischen kenne ich keinen solchen Ausdruck.)