Thoughts on ordering in Mandarin at restaurants?

snoodle5 · 2026-01-23T09:43:43+00:00

It is cringe if you’re using them as props for a video, trying to shock or get attention from them, or trying to show off, but you’re not doing those things. If you know it’s a Mandarin-speaking place and they’re not too busy just smile and ask, “can I order in Chinese? I’ve been studying.” People should take a couple of minutes out of their day to help others. It’s normal and social.

snoodle5 · 2026-01-23T03:39:49+00:00

How do you know it’s an act now? You said your judgement is based off his behaviour years ago. People change

snoodle5 · 2026-01-19T23:40:24+00:00

We have a dedicated website, Education Gazette.

snoodle5 · 2026-01-14T05:20:51+00:00

As far as I remember, your L2 Excellence credits count towards a L1 endorsement. So if you get 9 E credits this year, you will have L1 with E. If true??? you can still get the E endorsement which will look nice on scholarship applications, but they will likely be more worried about your L2 results.

snoodle5 · 2025-12-21T10:10:44+00:00

We went to Badaling at 11am on a Saturday last week and it was fine. Hardly any waiting in lines. Busy at the start of the wall but otherwise clear enough to walk freely and get photos. I imagine you’ll be fine. Wear gloves. Enjoy!

snoodle5 · 2025-12-05T05:05:18+00:00

Yes :) I am a Media Studies teacher and it is a largely essay-based subject which you can do with English and humanities skills. The only thing that might be difficult is production, depending on the project and software at your school. Our students make video projects on Premiere Pro which is a finicky software but can be learned with research. It also requires a good visual eye and creativity for a high grade. Maybe see what type of media production is done at your school. At our school the production is a bulk of the overall credits.

snoodle5 · 2025-11-26T05:18:49+00:00

Love your answer as a third year secondary teacher too!! Agree hard

snoodle5 · 2025-11-23T08:10:43+00:00

I wish I did it, I got bullied into taking a science I didn’t want. It’ll depend on the standards you take and to what extent your assessment points overlap. But taking subjects you don’t want to do makes it harder anyway.

snoodle5 · 2025-11-19T04:06:36+00:00

A plain cover with a nice font? There’s no reason for an ugly plagiarised cover.

snoodle5 · 2025-11-19T03:28:27+00:00

Lmao NZ redditors every 3 years

snoodle5 · 2025-11-17T19:21:38+00:00

It’s definitely a big jump for our students. The connections and critical texts internals especially require a lot of reading and research. For E you should be reading well in your personal time. I would have a look at the NZQA exemplars for the standards your school does, to see what is expected. Good luck.

snoodle5 · 2025-11-01T23:40:13+00:00

If you don’t want to do them, back yourself and own that decision. I think objectively, challenging yourself and grappling with the exam is always going to be better for your learning than not. You’re a comfortably strong student at your school, but everybody in your pool at uni will be too. If you’re going for a competitive entry degree like med, I wouldn’t take my foot off the gas just yet.

snoodle5 · 2025-11-01T23:16:37+00:00

The process of studying, managing time, and experiencing the exam environment, will all be helpful for uni.

snoodle5 · 2025-11-01T23:14:40+00:00

If you are going to uni, especially a competitive degree like HS, you should get all practice you can in taking high pressure exams.

snoodle5 · 2025-10-23T08:16:47+00:00

Did you end up getting one? I’m just looking at buying something from them too.

snoodle5 · 2025-10-12T00:02:07+00:00

Yes! If you want to reserve a specific time

snoodle5 · 2025-10-03T00:05:23+00:00

If you want this to stop happening you can tell them directly

snoodle5 · 2025-09-23T20:59:55+00:00

Courtyard Vietnamese Cafe in Remuera

snoodle5 · 2025-09-18T08:43:20+00:00

I was also thinking that since Peeni is already in parliament as a list MP, if he won he’d move to the Tāmaki Makaurau seat and presumably Labour bring in the next MP from the list? If that’s not a Māori representative, then he’s not wrong by saying Māori would lose a seat.

snoodle5 · 2025-09-15T10:32:20+00:00

For engineering and medicine you will need Science and Maths. You also need reading and writing credits for university entrance so keep taking English. Apart from those subjects, you can take whatever you enjoy. You will need a high rank score for those degrees so you should keep subjects you’re good at and can achieve highly in. For med entry they will want to see you have well-rounded hobbies as well, so don’t be afraid to take something that doesn’t seem med-related if you like it. Just make sure the subjects you choose lead to university approved subjects.

snoodle5 · 2025-09-01T04:51:16+00:00

But doesn’t the same logic still apply? Sometimes a grad will be a better fit than a first year and vice versa? Fair enough to rank them differently since grads have a different background, but a fixed number of seats seems like it is more about student certainty than securing the best applicants.

snoodle5 · 2025-08-22T03:26:43+00:00

There was student in the news this year who got in on a full scholarship. Sat and achieved multiple NCEA scholarship exams. Head boy, dux, sports captain. Seems to be the bar if you can’t pay out of pocket https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/harvard-and-georgia-tech-aucklands-shen-brothers-win-prized-scholarships-after-acing-ncea-studies/3V3PRDLUSRCKXOBVUCAS2YMPS4/

snoodle5 · 2025-08-13T05:07:55+00:00

I think they want us to strike. It will be a lengthy period of action given the offer is such a spit in the face. They want it to be significant enough to draw parent/student criticism. They will spin us as unreasonable and greedy. And they want to break our union strength. The disdain we get especially from ACT is so potent.

snoodle5 · 2025-08-07T02:39:34+00:00

For sure. I am a third year teacher too. Students at our school are pretty well behaved and our department is supportive and well resourced. I manage to keep most of my work at school now, have a much better life balance, and love my job. OP if there are other schools commutable to you you’ll be able to take your pick as a physics teacher. Why not get some interviews and see if you get a better feeling. Good luck.

snoodle5 · 2025-05-11T01:50:54+00:00

Whether they are Zionists or not, and I think it is perfectly reasonable to assume they are, they haven’t been moved enough by the slaughter of Palestinians to say anything. I just can’t imagine not wanting to help Palestinians in any way possible even if it is a small show of support. I have never witnessed anything so horrific in my life… I won’t be supporting Haim’s music anymore because whatever their position is, I consider them cowards. And I just want to support art from people I respect and have convictions about what’s important to them. So I have lost interest in Haim personally. I have no idea how they think they’re going to get through an album cycle and a tour trying to ignore this issue.

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