Russian-Chinese-Italian-German-what we thought was Scots but turns out to be more likely to be English here. Plus any that haven't been traced yet.

Has anyone here ever worked for Kaplan, doing tutoring or teaching or the like? Or for that matter ever had Kaplan classes or tutoring? I'm contemplating applying, but I want a bit more information first.

I took Kaplans for my LSATs, then a couple years later trained to teach the LSATs. I didn't end up teaching because I got a better offer. I remember really liking the prep course, and the training course being a pleasant experience.

Well, I can tell you he enjoyed it. If asked, I'm sure he would tell you it's a good idea and you should do it. So if that's all you want to know, no need for you to talk to him directly.

Jesse, I was looking at Princeton Review, but all the classes there (and at Kaplan, too) seem to be smack dab during the time I'm going to be doing summer classes (which is to say, July, 5-9:15 every evening). So I'm thinking of seeing if tutoring at Kaplan is a bit more flexible to my schedule, but they're just not giving me enough information on the Website. And of course I like to be fully informed before talking to an Actual Person.

Let's see . . . English (Welsh-Norman)-Scots-German-Dutch (and maybe Moorish, though I personally believe Antony was already born when Jan Jansen got to Morocco in the early 1600s, joined the Salee Rovers, and married a local woman).

That's why I never ended up doing Princeton Review myself, there was a TON of training, mostly at times bad for me. Once I had made it through the training, the teaching would have been more flexible.

My grandfather actually came over from Czechslovakia (as a wee child), so that's the one I tend to identify with more.

And one set of mine were swedish immigrants, so I'll tend to count that. Though, really? I can count the trappings of my swedishness on one hand: when you open presents on christmas, and um....well, I like peperkokr.

Identity is a funny thing. I'm more influenced by being the granddaughter of farmers during the depression (money issues) and the euro immigrant experience (once they'd gotten here) at a particular point in time than I am by the cultural trappings dating from the places my ancestors came from. Which is to say, influenced by the trappings of an american cultural experience. They didn't bring much with them but their names.

You guys are the best back-patters ever. I love you, man.

Kaiser roll or onion roll (am I wrong in thinking kaiser rolls have onions bits sprinkled on top?) are the only terms I know for them.

Some folks call 'em kaiser rolls, but I call 'em sling rolls.

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