If my child went missing tomorrow, would the UK spent ATLEAST 12 million to try and find her?, and if not, please tell me why?

There's more to British English than spelling words with our instead of or - we have completely different words for many things, and you will find that out soon enough, As with anyone moving to a country that speaks a different language, you soon pick it up when you have to use it all the time. Driving on the left is just as hard to learn as driving on the right. It's only a matter of habit that you need to use your left hand instead of right, and remember to get in the car on the OTHER side!

British people are quite used to taking their own cars over to continental Europe where they drive on the right (you can do it by ferry or take your car through the Channel Tunnel) and we all manage that easily enough. It's the fact that your car seems to be built the wrong way round that I imagine to be more difficult, though I've never tried it. As you're in school, you won't be driving anyway unless you're in the very last year - the legal age to drive a car is 17.

Meanwhile, watch out when crossing the road. The nearest traffic is coming from the RIGHT. The exchange rate between the pound and the dollar changes all the time but it generally hovers at the moment around £1 = $1.50.

So things will look cheaper than they really are until you get used to the pound being bigger. Cash itself is easier to cope with and you'll get like me, able to pick out coins without reading them, just from the size and the colour. The 20p and 50p aren't even round to help with telling the difference (which amazed my American friends!) Banknotes (notes, not bills) are different colours and sizes to help blind people tell them apart, and of course that makes it easier for everyone else too.

How good are you at metric measures? We're kind of bilingual - under pressure from Europe, we've been officially metric for quite some time, and food MUST be sold in metric sizes as you will see in supermarkets. I've noticed recently that if I buy a pack of pasta, it's 500g or 1 kg and the conversion isn't even shown any more.

Petrol (gas) for cars is sold in litres, not gallons, which hides the fact that if you work it out, it's FAR more expensive in the UK. But older people especially are still used to feet, inches, pounds, ounces, pints, whatever. At my age (50) I've sort of grown up with both and carry around some conversions in my head.

Schools teach metric, and they have done for at least the last 40 years because I was taught in it. But my Mum still doesn't feel happy with "centipedes" (!), milk is still sold in pint bottles though of course it has to say how many litres on the label as well, and beer in pubs still comes in pint glasses because you are NOT going to get British beer drinkers to change overnight. Distances and speed limits on road signs are still in miles and mph.

Car speedometers are in mph to match, though they show km/h in smaller figures as well. Probably you know some metric from science lessons - scientists certainly find it easier that it is all in tens, hundreds, thousands etc. It's just that you will find a lot more of it around in British everyday life. The Metrication Board came up with some rhymes years ago that I still find helpful.

"A litre of water's/a pint and three-quarters." "Two and a quarter pounds of jam/Weighs about a kilogram." And for a final parting shot on this, a British pint is bigger than a US pint - it's 20 fl oz. So if once you're 18 and can do this legally (yep the drinking age is 18), and I buy you a pint of beer in a pub, it'll be bigger than you think!

Cheers!

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.