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Things are good. I got paid, so now I have more than 5 euros in my bank account. Called the 'rents today to chat and I got a very nice semi lecture from my mother about how I have to learn to manage money. Groan. I know I know. Apparently, I spent a lot of money on the "emergency" credit card. Well, getting settled in a foreign country is difficult ( Read more... )

Excerpt from NY times editorial...

It's tempting to think that one Thanksgiving is pretty much like another, except for differences in the guest list and the recipes. But it isn't true. This is always a feast about where we are now. Thanksgiving reflects the complexion of the year we're in. Some years it feels buoyant, almost jubilant in nature. ( Read more... )

It's so hard to write simple sentences. I want to write complex ones, and it's difficult to slow down and be simple, it's sort of facile really. I made my own text for Thanksgiving since everything else on the internet was too hard for my students, you know complex compound sentences and what not, real English: think too hard; but anyway my text ( Read more... )

My students make me laugh. I have to hold it in and bite my tongue, because if I laugh during class, the tenuous control I hold over these 11 to 12 year olds is just going to go all to hell. But it's crazy the things they come up with. When I wrote Massachusetts on the board two classes in a row said Je maches mes chausettes. giggle. I chew my ( Read more... )

Christmas day and christmas eve, I'll be in Amsterdam. And before that, I'll be in Paris, six days paris, four days amsterdam. I rock. you are jealous. you know you are... (okay, maybe you're not, but humor me a tad please ( Read more... )

Last night I made chilli and you know what? it wasn't terrible. I didn't have enough spices though, so it wasn't as spicy as I like, but good nonetheless. I loooovvvve the little kids. My youngest are around 11 and 12, and they are so enthusiastic, it's great. Remember when you first learned a foreign language and you were excited about being able ( Read more... )

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hello from england!

now, bye from england!

more later.....