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I am a high school junior in Lima, Peru. The school year here ends in December so I will graduate December 2021. I am a U.S. citizen, my family moved to Peru in 2018 to start a business. Any suggestions on how to deal with the difference in graduation months on my application?
 
I don't see where the issue is. You apply to try to attend in the autumn of 2022 and you start your application in the summer and autumn on 2021... where I'm using Northern hemisphere seasons.

Are you a citizen with a permanent residence (mailing/voting address) in the US? Those, and interviews are probably your biggest hurdle. I'm sure interviews could be done by internet. Determining your Congressional District would be based on your permanent address.

Is there something specific you're concerned about?
 
When it is the last weekend of summer, only 48 degrees, but you still want to enjoy your morning coffee in a rocking chair on the porch...
 

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I needed a morale booster the other day, which means I order myself a treat of some kind. I am fond of fine writing instruments, because as much as I bang away at the laptop, I also like to write - lists, notes to friends, sketch out action plans for a project, etc.

My treat arrived. It’s the Cross Wanderlust collection, “Malta,” rollerball.



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Capt MJ said:
I needed a morale booster the other day, which means I order myself a treat of some kind. I am fond of fine writing instruments, because as much as I bang away at the laptop, I also like to write - lists, notes to friends, sketch out action plans for a project, etc.

My treat arrived. It’s the Cross Wanderlust collection, “Malta,” rollerball.



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She's a beauty with sleek lines!
 
Hmm...another area we have in common....this is scary...

Let's see...in the pen case: Waterman, Cross, Mont Blanc, some VERY old Parker's...
(I learned penmanship as a child in the UK with a steel nib pen...and, come to think of it, I have a few of them too)

Steve
 
Penmanship is a lost art and a fine instrument like that would be wasted on most of the new generation. My father had beautiful writing which I can not match. They can't even read or write cursive now. I still remember the cursive letters displayed over the blackboard, then green board (no white board) at the head of the classroom. It was fun to be selected to go outside and clap the erasers. I think flails are for wheat harvests:)
 
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While at USNA DD did immersion at Tianjin and then a semester in Beijing (got to go to the Marine Ball at the Embassy) but even as a good artist she said written Chinese was almost impossible for an occidental.
 
In a bit of empty nest culling, I organized my everything drawer.
Beside the nuclear reactor, I am pretty sure we could have managed quite a bit based on inventory. All well categorizes now and catalogued. It should last a fortnight. If that.
 
AF6872 said:
Penmanship is a lost art and a fine instrument like that would be wasted on most of the new generation. My father had beautiful writing which I can not match. They can't even read or write cursive now. I still remember the cursive letters displayed over the blackboard, then green board (no white board) at the head of the classroom. It was fun to be selected to go outside and clap the erasers. I think flails are for wheat harvests:)
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I hated school all the way until I graduated in the top 90 percent of my class. At Cory Elementary we clapped the erasers on the brick wall on the second story fire escape. Years later when I took my wife and kids home on leave I would drive by the school and show them the chalk stains. Great vacation memories are priceless.
 
I may have posted this before, but the best and only pencil that I use is the Blackwing. I like the 602 and the pearl for different reasons.
If you like using a pencil, you should spend $2.00 on one and feel the difference.

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@THParent Do you use a special sharpener? These look like you were able to get a fine point on them.
 
Stray thought after reading the posts above, in one of those synaptic leaps:

Didn’t big Crayola packs way way back used to have built-in crayon sharpeners? Or am I conflating memories?
 
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