Hey there everybody!
Today I'm here with my friend Eve -Hello
And we are feeling very Christmas-y
-Yes! As you can see
I decked up the room for Christmas
We've got a candle over there! look at that
But today we are going to be doing a video about what it's like to be in school now VS
what it was for me
'Cause I feel like that's really interesting because like when I was a kid, I didn't have
social media in school,
Or a cellphone or anything, and, Eve- how many followers do you have right now?
-A lot... See?! that wasn't a question! (both laugh)
she's like, "got a bit more on Instagram...", y'know
Do you have a laptop? -I do
Do you bring it to school? -No, no
What?? I thought that everyone still... Do you have a tablet in school?
-They have tablets at school but we don't bring them
So you're like, are given a tablet?
-No, you... Well, the Sixth Formed are, we just sort of... You need them for like, research
-You might have then in some lessons or you might not...
The school library had a computer so I would go there
-Oh, yeah
But you mostly... I dunno, I had to do that for research papers, but for that most part
I'd play Pin Ball, or Solitaire,
Or you try and log into Miniclip, if you'd find like a good Proxy...
-yeah... I used to love Miniclip. OKAY! so we... OKAY!
What other websites do you guys visit nowadays?
I guess it's just social media... -Just social media, really
-But they're all blocked at our school, so we can't...
so obviously you'd just have to find a Proxy
-yeah okay
There are ways for (something)
I know one of my favourite proxies was the word proxy backwards that one was a good one
Cause you couldn't even google the word proxy like they blocked the word proxy on google.
Oh my god they're like one step ahead
When I was in school we had, uh, MP3 players had just come out except they were one song
MP3 players
Wait so you could just literally have just one song?
They were called hit clips so you'd collect them all and you'd have like (singing) hit
me baby one more time
And you'd like listen to that one song over and over. Oh right.
And like I remember when iPods first came out and people would try and like hide the
earphones.
And we'd like listen to music in school, do you guys have an issue with iPhones?
I don't think people were trying to listen to music in lessons but like if we had revision
Periods then people would sort of like say that they're using it for revision purposes
But then like just listen to music but our school's quite like, fast in a sense like
they can tell
You're trying to listen to music. Do teachers like take your phone away obviously
if you're using it in class. Eh yeah that happened to me the other day
so I dunno i feel really defensive i's be like
no this is mine I wasn't using it in class it was at lunch
time You're not allowed to use it at lunch time!!
No..from the hours of 8:15-3:40 no phones What!
You're allowed it in form period like its just before form period but thats it
What if the teacher follows you on twitter And she doesn't see you using it, but she's
like 'Eve, I saw that tweet I don't think they do!
I liked it, but I am going to take that phone. I think some of them like watch my videos
but I don't think they follow me on twitter. So that's okay, I'm okay.
So you have a, you make videos, you have a social following.
Yeah. Do you get recognized in your own school?
Yeah, That's so-
Literally the other day I was walking down the corridor and this girl was like, she was
a year 7 who I had never seen before in my life, and she was like oh my god its Eve Bennet!
And there was these year 12's behind me that were just laughing at me and I just wanted
the ground to just suck me into a vacuum. Cause I remember thinking what it must be
like to be Rebecca Black during the peak of 'Friday'-
Oh my god. Like imagine going to school, and everyone
knows Rebecca Black. Yeah, no.
How does that feel?
One of the best days in school was when you had a substitute and they brought out the
big giant huge- TV!
On the rolly-cart, Yep.
Do you guys have thin flat-screens? I don't know, we, no. Up until like, 2 years
ago, we still had the giant rolly TV's I would say. We don't have them much anymore, we still
have one at our school we have it- It's just flatter?
No, it's like one of the big boxy ones. That makes me so happy.
With a trolly on it. That makes me so glad you guys still have
the big box one. Yeah.
Cause that's just what makes me happy is going 'Yeah! Were gonna' watch like Finding Nemo
in Spanish.' Oh no.
Do you guys have, I’m assuming that its now updated a thousand times but you used
to have the projector screen, that they roll out and then put-
the slide on yeah
In primary school i had that but now they use- now its just
Smart boards? Just the smart board, just all the smart board
I think my-my senior year of high school we had our first smart board and it was like
‘wait i can like,- write on it?
yeah and it was- yeah it was really cool
they don’t work most times though, so you’re ending up using a whiteboard anyway
so theres not really much point I’ve always hated chalk, because i don’t
like the feel of it I hate the sound of it on the chalkboard,
like no
I just don’t like the touch
I don’t think I’ve seen a chalkboard since like reception so –
I don’t know what reception is
Because of kindles and things do you guys still have book fairs?
We used to have those. Actually, I think we still do like –
I feel like you’re in a transition period where they used to have all the stuff and
now they’re like “we
don’t need this anymore”
Where they like wheel out the trolley and then they open it and
YES!
It’s like the absolute best day ever
And there’s loads of books and magazines and I can remember most of them, when I was
a kid, that I
wanted were like ‘1001 Playstation cheat codes’ and ’64 Cheat codes’ and you’d
like open it and be
like ‘oh look this is how I beat Goldeneye’
Yeah we still have them, but we tend to have coupons now instead. They give everyone a
pound off
a book from like WH Smith or Waterstones or something. I haven’t a trolley since probably
year 6.
Did you guys have 5 star notebooks? 5 Star – like as a kid you get a binder – do
you know what a
binder is? Dodie kept calling it a folder
It is a folder!
A folder is like the open book thing where you put things in the sleeve and a binder
has three rings,
it’s a three ring binder
Three?
Or a five ring binder if you’re fancy
What? No, we have two and four
What?
What is going on?
Basically, as a kid, your family that gets you the generic folders and the generic like
notebooks and
three ring binders or you spring for the five star and that’s like the ‘oh yeah he’s
got a five star, his
family must be well-off’. It was just 2 dollars more per binder but it was always
like nice quality
Yeah I get you
I don’t know, because there’s just so much online, you can like make your calendar
online. Do you
guys still have agendas?
I have a planner
A weekly planner? Do you actually use it though?
Yeah I do. They sign it every week to make sure that you’ve used it.
Really? I would hate that, I’m just so disorganised
You have to get your parents to sign it every week so if you don’t you get in trouble
Oh my, that’s – Have you ever forged your mum’s signature? She’s listening
All the time, we all do. What we do is, we get a page that’s already had the signature
on and we
press down, like press it down and get a letter or something and then just follow it with
the pen
I would just do it myself, I know my mum’s signature
Yeah, I can’t, I can’t forge my mum’s signature it’s like
I’ve only had to do it once and that was because I didn’t get my mum to sign something
to go on this Band trip and I’d miss out. It was almost like not going to Hogsmeade
and I was like no way I forgot it, the day and went whoosh
I’ve done it with permission slips before
and contact forms and most things
Now when I was a kid cafeteria food was pretty great, I’d have pizza every Friday, which
was a square rectangle burnt piece of pizza. The on Mondays every other week there was
French toast and sausage and like there was chicken nuggets on Tuesdays and then there
was lasagne on Wednesdays. What do you guys have food wise?
We have a salad bar, which is actually alright.
We have sandwiches and baguettes and then we have hot food so like Mondays is chicken
burger and wedges day, I love it, it’s literally the best day and Friday is fish and chips
day and then Thursdays are roast dinners so you have beef, pork, chicken.
Woah okay I thought I was not going to like
the healthy meals but roast dinner at school.
No its really good and then the other two days I don’t actually know what goes on
Do you have pizza ever?
Yeh we have it at rec we have it at break. Like we have snacks at break, hash browns,
samosas, garlic bread, pizza, paninis you name it
Ok I’m actually jealous now. You name it, no.
I thought I was gonna be like… I’ve gained so much weight since I’ve
started eating at the canteen. Wow!
And we have like fizzy like drinks like Appletisers. Do you guys have breakfast?
Yeah we do: hash browns, bacon, sandwich. Ok. We have pop tarts.
Oh wow, that’s cool! No, it’s not.
It is though, I love pop tarts. You know that my description of a mince pie
is basically and off brand pop tart. I kind of see where you’re coming from there
though like not gonna lie. What do you guys call recess?
Is that like break? It is a break to play.
Like the 20 minute period that you get sort of….
30 minutes, but yeah. Yeah, well most normal schools call it break.
Ok. We call it ‘break’
Ok well we were normal and we called it recess such as the TV show recess.
Yeah, yeah recreation that’s what we called it.
Um ok ‘cause uh during recess we would just play like wall ball or kick ball or we would
trade Pokemon. That was a huge thing; such a big thing that they had to ban Pokemon from
our school. We had GoGos.
What’s that? They’re like little toy thing at primary
schools that were like sort of this big. Uh huh.
And like you used to trade those and like they got banned.
Sort of this big and like you used to trade those and like they got banned
Are they like pogs? Little discs? No not discs, they are like little characters
and like, we sort of, they like banned it so we had to go underground and sort of start
doing it The black market yeah
Underneath jumpers and things We had to go behind the right building
Like behind like the yeah To trade Pokemon cards
Yeah exactly You got that executor
Yeah yeah yeah we were the same, we were the same but now can just stay inside so we just
sit on our phones in our form rooms Yeah if I had recess nowadays I think I might
just be on my phone which is a bit upsetting because recess is supposed to be a time to
play Yeah fun, the Year 7's and that have to go
outside which is really funny when it's all cold ad you just sort of watch them standing
huddled by the door like this for 20 minutes Yeah but I don't know
It's quite funny But you could choose to for us to go to the
library and like use the computer You can go to the library but a lot of people
do that when it's cold Do you ever play wall ball
What's that? Wall ball's where you have a tennis ball
Yeah And you throw it against a big wall, it bounces
off - you're okay. If you miss the wall then you have to run for the wall and if somebody
gets the ball they can peg it at you We played bulldog and that got banned
Bulldog? Yeah that was it, yeah it was
I can’t even remember how you play. It was just something where you were like running
across the playground and there was like a line of people who were on and they had to
catch you but it got to the point where people where like jumping pinning people
like red rover? yeah, probably thats what it is and people
getting pinned to the concrete oh
so we just changed the name to gummy bear Not bull dog okay its called gummy bear
and we kept changing the name so it was fine they didn’t really catch on it took them
about on average 3 weeks to catch on and then we'd just change the name
that’s really smart
online bullying is a thing yeah thats a big thing
cause when i was a kid bullying happened, but it was never online
its always online now like i feel scared like to if i went online
and i saw someone that i knew in a class talking indirecting me basically
but that is it basically indirecting is terrifying. i cant imagine
doing that at school every single problem I’ve had at school
has been either on twitter or ask fm, It’s usually on twitter like people indirect me
but then I had people sending me messages on ask fm in like year 8 and then they found
out who it was. But the problem is now even if someones done something on social media
because it’s not happened in school,
they're like we can't do anything about it you have to go to the police, and then the
police won't do anything
So nothing ever happens so yeah we had people coming in and talking to us about it and there
was this one big scandal where someone made an Instagram account like dissing all these
people and she was never seen again
Yeah it's like the burn book from erm, what's the name of that movie?
Mean girls! How can you not know the name of that movie?
My second school I went to, if you didn't have an LL BEAN like you weren't that cool;
like everyone had a personalised LL BEAN with their initials on it and I came to school
wearing some other backpack and I felt so different and like oh I need to get - I
literally got one for that reason
Yeah
When I was in school, and something I'm very very happy about now that it's over. A big
thing was hollister and Abercrombie and a lot of those branded.
Don't, oh my god
Everyone would wear hollister and I didn't
No
I was like I don't understand it looks baggy
That's, yeah
And the certain type that Jocks type of wore, so now I'm wondering, now that they're like
on the decline do you guys still have something like that?
Oh my gosh at our school, cause our schools like selective, all girls school like everyone's
a bit like the upper end of the scale so everyone wears Jack Wills and Hollister but they wear
like
Okay so it is the same still
They will be there with their neon green hollister jumper and their bright blue hollister jeans
and orange hollister like shoes and it's just like why
It's just a its -
It's a game of how many brands can I wear and I went through a faze where I would only
ever wear Jack Wills because I felt really left out
Yeah that's how it makes you feel doesn't it?
Yeah I just don't understand why you need a name on your jumper
You dont
To be like oh look I've shopped at this shop
It's about how much money because they're expensive so like wearing it wearin this brand
it's like
Look how rich I am yeah
How would you do your homework without just being able to google it? like I don't understand!
It was a huge issue like you just had to read the book
If you did a research project though how would you get so many different opinions on things
You had to go to the library and rent out. I remember for my research paper I had to take
out ten books and have at least one online source from renting out from the library yeah
That is not good I don't understand how you can do that
If you ever had issues in class you just had to open up the actual text book and read the
chapter again and then you'd figure it out
I don't know what you'd do without revision videos either
Oh man, those are so helpful though like once I got into university and I need help and
probability there was just so many videos
YouTube is the best
On YouTube
YouTube is great like how you like that's how I revise best so like without
I taught myself almost thanks to YouTube because my teacher wasn't that good
Yeah I literally taught myself the whole of the biology syllabus just by watching this
guy and it was just like the best thing ever and now I'm really good at biology
Do you guys still pass notes, like or do you guys just text?
Yeah, no they make you read them out in class
Oh so you don't pass notes? Do you read texts in class like girl give me your phone what
you wear - oh what are those
We don't, no we don't pass phones round in class but I'll be on my phone in class
I think I would have been that guy like if I was ba- like if I was in school right now
I would be on my phone all the time
Yeah no
I'd be in trouble so much
We do pass notes sometimes but we tend to avoid it because they have a habit of just
humiliating you so
Aw I feel like I would have tweeted a lot of indirects at my teachers and would have
gotten in trouble like that's just who I am
That's happened at school like someone's tweeted something and put the actual name of the teacher
and then see if I tweet about a teacher I just don't put their name in so
So that way they all think it's about them
Yeah
Like none of them will watch this because I don't think they know how to sort of
All the teachers love Evan Edinger’s videos so
But like you know
Well that was very interesting I feel like I thought at the end of this video like as
a 90s kid I was gonna be the winner of this argument but I feel like you guys definitely
have it better
Yeah we do
With the cellphones and the googling and everything. It's almost like a good combination of them
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Oh!You didn’t She didn’t jump down! I’m sorry!
You did it this time! Whoo!
Yeah. I knocked your camera though.
Ohh! You were just a midge. I mean I’ve got plenty of space. I can do
what I want. I open a book such as “Speed Mathematics”.
Speed Mathematics. This is just casual reading for me.
I’m pretty sure my granddad used to have that.