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This isn't specific to ace dating but since this is a sub w lots of people open to and or seeking LDRs, it feels appropriate to post here. Idk how to phrase this and I'm not even sure what my point rly is, this is more of confused soul-searching I guess. In theory, I think I could be content with a long-distance relationship. It's just that it seems so difficult to get to know/date smo if the relationship already starts as an LDR. I've had a short ldr with smo I met on the Internet a couple months during covid, but that was different because communication was very frequent, allowing for a faster pace of getting to know someone and much more openness towards calling, facetiming etc.

Nowadays, I'm having a much harder time connecting with people online romantically. I've been chatting with people from AceSpace for over a week and while I have the feeling that from the conversations we're having, I'd totally vibe with them (and they are even from the same country as I am, so that is distance that could be overcome much easier if this all were to work out) , but ... as smo who has also dated people offline, it's just harder to create an opportunity to feel out if there is ✨️a spark✨️. While for irl dating, I'd just suggest a date at a café, stroll through a park, a fun museum - but with online dating, there aren't a whole lot of options. Basically, having a scheduled discord call or smth, but if we're only exchanging messages maybe 1-2 a day that just feels ... idk, bleak 😭 especially since I have the feeling that people probably wouldnt take this type of "date" as seriously as a physical face-to-face interaction.

Ik everyone can have a busy life, and there's also very much the possibility that they might not be as into me or are just viewing this as an online friendship, but just ... ahh.

Do you guys experience this as well?

Is it smth one should just let go? Bite the bullet and ask for calls and if that doesn't work out one way or the other, take a break from all that again? Idk, it's just a bit frustrating, because the people are genuinely kinda cute 😔🫀✨️

Hi, bin auf der Suche nach meiner ersten richtigen Wohnung nach 5 Jahren im Studentenwohnheim malochen. Ich weiß, es gibt sämtliche Portale mit immowelt, immoscout und co., aber auf den Seiten finde ich kaum was in meiner Preisklasse. Ich suche nach ner Zwei-Zimmer-Wohnung in einer sächsischen Kleinstadt bis 450€, liegt also nicht zwingend an komplett realitätsfernen Anforderungen oder übermäßiger Konkurrenz, ich hatte bisher einfach ein bisschen Pech. Deshalb: Hat jemand außer ebaykleinanzeigen noch Tipps für lowbudget Wohnungssuchportals?

Hi, started learning morse two days ago. My current approach is focused on getting used to the sounds by decoding simple words on morsle.fun (what a fun website indeed). I don't have all the letters committed to memory as of yet, I use morsecodemaster for that and have probably half the alphabet and the lettera down.

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Rn, I'm mostly copying the dihs and dahs I hear, then convert the ones I immediately recognize into letters and the ones I don't know I look up in the chart. This works well although I'm obviously going pretty slow atm, if I put it on 10-15 wpm I can get the word after 1-2 listens if I'm lucky, while at 40 wpm I typically need at least 1 listen per letter.

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Is that a productive approach or should I focus on immediately recognizing the letters without jotting down the dihs and dahs?

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Also, any other tips? Especially for sites to practice sending morse / potentially send it out to strangers or friends.

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Thanks :)

I don't know if this is the right place for this, but essentially -- how do I create a more motivating environment to better study at home? I currently have some time off and since I can't afford a vacation anyways, I wanna use the time to pursue some passion projects.

I can study just fine at the library, as I am surrounded by other people studying, and there is not much else to do except walking around or studying. Sure, I could also goof off on my phone, but the added social pressure is enough to prevent myself from doing so. Further, the library usually is a place of peace and quiet, whereas that's not always the case for my dorm -- currently, there are TWO whole construction sites right in front of my window :'-( However, while I can study at the library during the day, it has suboptimal opening hours so I won't be able to get anything done there after 6pm. Additionally, I love studying languages, and I can't really practice speaking them at the library, so I gotta get more into studying at home one way or another.

Hi, ich bin seit einem Jahr vegan und so langsam ein bisschen unzufrieden mit dem gängigen Angebot, was es in Rewe, Netto, Lidl und Co. an Süßigkeiten gibt (ich weiß, in anderen Ländern sieht es teilweise noch viel magerer aus, aber a girl wants her treats).

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Hat jemand Empfehlungen? Idealerweise zum Bestellen, in meiner Stadt sieht es mit Bioläden eher dünn aus. Am meisten fehlen mir so schokoladig-cremige Sachen a la Kinder Bueno / Kinder Happy Hippo, aber auch generell Schokoriegel/tafeln. Und falls jmd was Raffaelo-ähnliches kennt wäre ich unendlich dankbar 🔥

Hi, I just graduated and have some time on my hands before starting my new job. Therefore, I'd like to squeeze in a last minute vacation in late June, maybe 5-7 days in France, but I can't decide on where to go. Budget used to be a deciding factor but bien sûr this close to June everything will be expensive. I'd like to keep it under 700 euros tho, since I have not figured out transport yet, though I'm from Germany so it'll work itself out somehow.

What am I looking for?

- historic ruins, art museums, colorful city tapestry and old town vibes - I especially love Roman history, Nîmes was truly my Roman Empire when I was in Southern France, but I also loved the Celtic influences in Bretagne and the pomp and over the topness of Paris

- I've been to: Strasbuorg (j'adore!!!), Verdun, Brest (Erasmus 💀 but I still love it!), Quimper, Rennes, Paris, Nîmes, Arles, Avignon, Nice and Menton. I liked all those places, but I want to explore somewhere new. Friends have suggested Bordeaux, Toulouse, Bayonne and Lyon, but I'm uncertain and open to lesser known gems!

- I speak ✨️some ✨️ French and would love an opportunity to talk to people, obviously that's never guaranteed (altho I did get people in Paris to speak French with me 😤) but if any of you know any towns that are extra patient with foreigners or have some nice fêtes going on that'd be awesome < 3

- I don't want to ✨️drive✨️, so yay for public transport, buses and trains -> especially if there's 2+ places worth visiting within a 2h train/bus ride, that'd be amazing

- IF there's a good vegan food scene thats also a big plus but I know that's not a priority in most French cities 😔

Ich habe soeben meinen Zulassungsbescheid für meine Ref-Schule bekommen. In diesem wurden wir dazu aufgefordert, umgehend Kontakt mit der Schule aufzunehmen, um etwaige Planungen, die vom Zeitplan des Lasub abweichen, zu besprechen. Da dies meine erste Kontaktaufnahme mit der Schule sein wird, wollte ich einmal ein Meinungsbild abfangen, da ich wirklich gar keine Ahnung habe, wie ich da am besten herangehen kann.

1. Kontakt per E-mail oder Telefon? Ich weiß, dass telefonischer Kontakt manchmal vorgezogen wird, weil er schneller und persönlicher ist, aber es gibt mehrere Sekretariate an der Schule, also wäre da erst einmal die Frage, an welches ich mich überhaupt richte. E-mail Adresse gibt's nur eine.

2. Wesentlich wichtiger: Was schreibt man in diese E-mail? Inwieweit sollte man sich über die Fächerwahl und den Studienort hinaus vorstellen? Ist das nicht eher etwas, das in Person passiert?

Ich weiß, dass das alles gar nicht so schwer ist, wie ich es mir vermutlich selbst mache, aber diese formalen Kennenlernsituationen machen mich unglaublich nervös, das fand ich schon in den Praktika furchtbar und ich hab eh Angst davor, wie die soziale Eingliederung in das Kollegium wird. Im Umgang mit Schülern habe ich diese Probleme überhaupt nicht, aber sobald es um den Austausch mit Kollegen und Kommilitonen geht, überdenke ich einfach jedes Wort xd

I love learning new words, but studying grammar is the end of me. I know how important it is but I just cannot motivate myself when self-studying. For context, I'm learning French and currently at the B1-B2 plateau and I just don't wanna do this all anymore 😭 I got the past, the present, the future, my motivation refuses to take in any more of the additional stuff. Any tips on how to make studying grammar on your own more appealing?

Hey! I don't know if this is the right place for this but I have been s t u c k with this scene for over 2 months now.

I'm writing an rpg with a friend, set in the PJO universe. Rn, Camp Jupiter is visiting Camp Halfblood for an exchange event / joint training exercise, but you don't necessarily need to be familiar with PJO for my inquiry.

Our main objective is to write a cute "rivals" to lovers type story. Rivals is in quotations because it's really just a one-sided beef my character has with my friend's. For PJO fans: She's a daughter of Hephaestus who calls bs on the golden boy of camp, a son of Aphrodite, who actually really is just as nice as he seems.

We left off at the reception of the other camp, which both characters were pretty excited by. However, they left off in pretty much very different spots and I have no idea how to bring them back together into a scene that'll a) have them interact (so far they haven't intentionally sought out each other) b) creates potential for some cute awkward flirting.

As for their romantic dynamic, she keeps ending up accidentally flirting with him and getting embarrassed over it (things she meant to say as an insult just keep coming out much differently than she intended them to), while he is mostly amused by the awkwardness and returns the playful energy.

Any ideas on how to get them to interact with each other again?

My French supposedly is around a B1 but I haven't practiced in a hot minute, so excusez mon anglais. I have no problem finding materials to immerse myself and practice my listening and reading, but I'm a bit stumped on the best strategies to improve my productive skills, specifically when it comes to catching and correcting my mistakes. I'm no fan of AI, especially in the Language Arts and Humanities, therefore it'd be awesome if you have any suggestions that don't rely on "conversing with ChatGPT" and the likes. I'm already on r/language_exchange and looking for french language programs in my area, but I'm from a small town nowhere near any French speaking countries.

Thank you for your help :)

For context, I'm an aspiring History teacher from Germany in her very final stretch towards graduating. I've been very depressed for some months and this has finally spread towards my degree choice. I wholeheartedly believe that students should learn the history of their home country and an outline of world history to get a grasp on today's political situation, but my degree (esp these last months) has entirely desillusioned me with the field. In short, it feels like teaching history is nothing but presenting students with info that they could have retrieved from wikipedia themselves and then telling them "that's how it was y'all". In the end, my five years of studies (standard amount for becoming a HS history teacher here) was nothing but that: reading lots of academic articles to write papers about entirely niche topics that were neither particularly relevant (yes let's compare the Athenian and Spartan constitution for the billionth time) nor challenged my critical thinking too deeply, because it always felt like I knew too little on any given subject to add anything new to the conversation.

With History being an overly saturated choice of subject, I'm just even more miserable about my current situation. I know that to a degree, all subjects in secondary education boil down to presenting students with information that they could retrieve online but need to even be made aware of first, but since I'm also studying ESL, that subject at least feels like I have some skills I can pass on to my students. I don't know. It all feels so useless.

ETA: Just wanted to emphasize that I posted this to gather arguments to convince myself that teaching History isn't as useless as it feels to me currently, hence why I prefaced that I'm currently very depressed (which isn't something this sub can fix in any way, I just wanted to be confronted with something other than my persistent negativity to not forget that my depressed mind is in fact not the authority on what is important in life.)

I highly appreciate everyone's takes on the importance of teaching history!

Basically, I'm currently writing a roleplay with a friend in the PJO/HOO universe. We just set out to have an exchange/joint training event between Camp Jupiter and Camp Halfblood (currently, a cohort of maybe 20 Camp Jupiter students is visiting Camp Halfblood) and I'm utterly stumped for ideas. How would y'all imagine an exchange between them? Activities, dynamics, shenanigans, any input is highly appreciated :)