Hello, delicious friends and welcome to Who Did What Now, the History Podcast that's not

your history class, with me your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlot and Reader of Books.

So I got a really funny comment on like, it was like my Instagram or Facebook or one of those, right? And this person was like,

oh, I really wish you'd get straight into the history instead of talking about yourself for five

minutes. Anyway, I'm going to talk about yourself for five minutes.

Anyway, I'm going to talk about myself for five minutes.

So it is my birthday last week.

And as per usual, I keep forgetting how old I am and keep thinking I'm a year older,

but I'm not.

I'm actually a year younger than I think I am every single year.

And it was a good day. I was very busy.

I was very busy because I'd booked it off, thank goodness, but I had two parent teacher meetings that day, followed by an open evening at a secondary school. And I know like quite a lot of my listeners are from the US

and you might be thinking, geez, Katie, I didn't think any of your children were old enough

to go to a secondary school. Well, they're not anyway. But in the US, you'll have like your

elementary, your middle and then your secondary, so your high school.

In the UK it's like primary and secondary.

And then in Ireland we have national school and secondary school.

So national school has eight years.

So you have junior infants, senior infants, first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth.

Those are your classes.

And once you complete those eight years, you go into secondary level education,

which consists of five to six years depending on what you do.

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