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Regenbogen:
I believe education is good here. And IMO it is important. The more you learn and know as a child the more chances you have with jobs as an adult.
As for the computers: depending on what your job is, not everybody needs a computer at home. We used ours for writing letters (and printing them) or email, or for some years now for online banking, since the banks reduced their staff and their buildings outside the cities. Or for playing games. LOL And I think most people did the same.
Also we "inherited" a around 20 years old computer from an old neighbour of my parents, whose son had passed on 2 years ago. It belonged to her son. She had no use for it, so she gave it to us.
So we had in fact two computers at home when the lockdown started.
And, fun fact, my husband had to bring his computer from his workplace to work at home.
So counting, we are 4 persons with 3 computers. But we bought only one of them and my husband's belongs to the company.
Now everyone can work at the same time.

@Fcrate:
There are people here, who can't read or write, but I don't know any personally.
I know some who are not good at reading, writing or calculating, but this is not, because they went to bad schools. More like their talents lie elsewhere.

But if for example you are a really good mechanic, but you can't calculate or read, then you can go on working for someone, but you would have enormous difficulties and depend on others helping you, if you wanted to become the boss of a group of mechanics. Just an example.

@Dina
Yeah, Fcrate is right, I was jealous too for you being able to sleep long, though I don't have to get up  before 6am this week.  ;)

Dina:
We had a proud tradition of a very good education, but sadly it has deteriorated a LOT in the last 2 decades, for several reasons. Economics mainly but also politics. Still, I don't think is that bad even know, specially at my city. Also, university keeps being quite good and I try to do my best everyday to do my tiny contribution to it. The education of my students is one of the things that I take more seriously in my whole life.

Regenbogen:
@Dina:
You are doing good. You can be proud of what you are doing. :)


I was busy these last days. Trying to get some Christmas presents for the kids. And planning how to do the birthday present for my dad and my husband. I planned on arranging archery lessons. This would be nice to do together. Even the kids would be interested. Last year I had the idea. But as everything is closed down, maybe I'll get a voucher or something for lessons in spring or summer. I don't know. My dad is turning 70 and my husband 50. I wanted something special for them.
My husband and I wanted to do that for more than a decade but there was never the time. We even lived beside a popular archery parkour for years, but at that time he had a very time consuming job and I was working almost every weekend.

And I am trying to help my daughter learn English. She had a very bad grade in the last test. Everything was wrong. Half the words she didn't know, and those she knew she spelled wrong. ' But Mama, I knew the word, I just wrote it wrong.' 'That's nice, but wrong is still wrong.' So we are doing exercises every day. I hope this will help her to become better.

Dina:
Thank you, Regen. And for what I heard, you are doing very well with your daughter's education.

Archery sounds so fun! I only have a bow in my hands once, many years ago. Hubby and some of our friends we celebrate the birthday of one of us in an archery place. You could rent a bow and a teacher for a while (I don't remember if an hour or so) and they taught you the basis. Of course, if you knew how to shoot you could just rent the bow and court, it's was cheaper. But we had a teacher. I did it...not great, which is not a surprise as I was always bad at sports, but not so awfully as I had imagined. Apparently me hand-eye coordination was not that bad. So I felt quite pride of myself. And the following day, my arm hurt! But it was a lot of fun, I wish it would have been more than once.

I like to see people doing archery, I always had a soft spot for Robin Hood.

Regenbogen:
Yes, I want to do it like that. Some teacher to show us how to do it and then you can go anywhere to rent a bow. One can even buy equipment legally without having to join a club, other than with firearms. My dad was in a firearm club for years and he was really good at shooting. But it is illegal to do that outside the club. Exception is when you do it as your job, e.g. police, soldiers, hunters etc.
An arrow you are even allowed to shoot in your own garden, if I understood correctly. I have to inform myself better soon.
I tried it several times, and I think I'm not bad at it.
And my husband and I are looking for some fun stuff to do together apart from watching TV and playing games, lol. We tried dancing once but that wasn't much fun, because he always forgot his steps and I wanted to do the cool stuff. And he couldn't lead, so I did, which annoyed our teacher, lol. It didn't work out at the end. We agreed, that we both like to dance, but not with each other.  ;)
When I was 17 I participated in a dance formation with about 50 dancers, and the girls wearing wedding dresses. That was really cool. The audience was mostly high society. I felt a bit out of place but pretended to be cool. It was great to be a part of the show. And to get to wear an extremely expensive wedding dress. The manufacturer of the dresses used the event for advertising their products. We were only allowed to wear them for the dance and had to give them back immediately after it and to put on our own dresses.

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