It’s nearly vacation time

And thank god for that, becaue these last weeks have been so crazy.   I have so much work to do, so many courses in progress and coming up.  Next week I have an intensive course on two evenings, a new tutoring student, and I have to find time to pack for our Italy/Tirol vacation, all [...]

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Not a bad weekend

Another 3-day-weekend, thanks to some obscure Catholic holiday.  It was nice, really, but it would’ve been nicer had the weather played along.  It has been unbelievable cold for the past week and a half.  I mean like 45-50° F.  In June.  Those of you in the tropical Midwest are probably not terribly sympathetic to this [...]

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Finally, the weekend

It’s been another long week of explaining the Present Perfect (two words bound to send a chill down the spine of any student of English or English Language teacher). But I’ve done it pretty often now, and have overheard comments like, “Oh, well nobody ever explained it to me like that before”.  I think this [...]

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Holiday stress

Well, I just got back from doing all my Christmas shopping. I got things for my parents, my brother, Stefan, and my Aunt Barb, who I drew in abstentia at the Thanksgiving lottery. I can’t tell you what I got them, because some of these people read this journal. But they are pretty nice things, [...]

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Thanksgiving nothing

Well, this is the first Thanksgiving in my life where I didn’t do anything but work. I had a company training seesion today with some people from a bank, so I spend the day from 8:30-5:30 sequestered in a tiny conference room with 4 beginners. They are really nice, and the warmed up quickly after [...]

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David Attenborough rocks

Well, I’ve survived a week without my Stefan, and it was pretty hard. Not only because he’s gone and I’m lonely, but also because I’ve had the workweek from hell! They’ve taken on more groups than they can handle at my Berlitz office, which means that I worked from 8:45am-8:00pm yesterday. And every day this [...]

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Finally, a post with the correct time!

The clock on my computer doesn’t work. Don’t ask me how this is possible, maybe because it’s a laptop and the battery has been dead for about 4 years. But the time is always way slow, and I guess livejournal just reads the computer’s time for putting it in the date line. But today I [...]

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Nice to hear

Today was my last day with my beginner’s class at Alpha, a language school. I decided to quit this course because it takes up a lot of time and the lack of organization at the school was becoming unbearable. But I’ve learned a lot about planning and the pace of learning a foreign language from [...]

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AHHHHH!!!

I know I haven’t written in a while, and I know it is bad. But I have been over my ears in work! First I couldn’t find a job, and now I have so much work I don’t know what to do with myself! I’m teaching nearly 20 hours a week at the moment. At [...]

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Last week of school

Yay, no school tomorrow because of Corpus Christi (whatever that is)! I am exhausted. I got up at 6:20 today to be in school for the first lesson, because a colleague wanted me to help her type and format and print the questions for the oral Matura. At least I think that’s what she wanted [...]

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