Graduating soon

[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Fairy Queen" 
<lucyliz_ward at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "uilnslcoap" 
> <devin.smither at y...> wrote:
> 
>   Just wanted to say I'm just 
> > one paper away from finishing college. 
> 
> Congratulations!
>  
> 
> > Is anyone else finishing school?  Anyone even not finishing 
school 
> > but just looking forward to the end of the year/Harry?  Does the 
> > British school year end in mid-to-late June?  What's going on 
> school-
> > wise?
> > 
> > Devin
> 
> I'm in year 12 at a British muggle school (that's the same as 
> Hogwarts sixth year), so I've got one more year to go before I'm 
off 
> to uni.  As for the British school year, our summer holidays don't 
> start untill 24th July!  I'm not actually at school for the next 
few 
> weeks though, as I'm on study leave - I have AS level exams 
(halfway 
> between GCSEs and A levels, aka OWLs and NEWTs) coming up soon, so 
I 
> don't have to go to lessons.  But the exams finish mid June, and 
then 
> I have to go back to school untill late July. 
> 
> Is there an American equivalent of these exams? What happens when 
you 
> finish school there?
> 
> Lucy
> 
> p.s What are s'mores? They were mentioned in a TBAY post ages ago, 
by 
> Derannimer, I think, and I meant to ask then but I forgot.