Today is Wednesday, June 04, 2025

The time people spend in trying to impress others, they could spend in doing the things by which others would be impressed.

If you find the text too small to read on this website, press the CTRL button and,
without taking your finger off, press the + button, which will enlarge the text.
Keep doing it until you have a comfortable reading size.
(Use the - button to reduce the size)

Today's quote:

Sunday, May 10, 2009

How times have changed!

My old "Volksschule" at Heinrichstraße in Braunschweig

Being back at "Riverbend" and having re-entered my state of reminiscing, I GOOGLEd for my old "Kaufmännische Berufsschule" (vocational school) in Germany at www.otto-bennemann-schule.de. I was surprised to find that my previous course of "Versicherungskaufmann" now requires "Abitur". "Abitur" is one stage below university degree whereas I did the same course from 1960 to 1963 after having just finished "Volksschule" (primary school).