So nevermind how I thought my stepdad might actually be nice to me for a while. He's reached a new record for being an asshole to me...3 days within my arrival home. Apparently he met his kindness quota when he shelled out the extra cash for my phone yesterday. He just got all pissed off at me because my mom told me I could use their spare ( Read more... )

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Ah, home at last... after 48 hours of traveling hell! So, I was supposed to leave Derry at 5:30 a.m. Friday morning, so naturally I didn't sleep all night so I could sleep on the plane all day. So all's well till we get to the Belfast airport and learn that our flight to London has been delayed because Heathrow's covered in fog. We don't get to ( Read more... )

So I'm leaving Derry in less than 24 hours...weird ( Read more... )

Ahem ( Read more... )

Only 4 days left in NI, including today. And I think I'm ready to go home, though I'm not entirely sure I'm ready to face everything and deal with everything I left behind. Sigh.. I sort of hoped I could just leave certain issues unresolved and that they'd magically just go away after 3 months. Surprise, turns out they didn't... What a shocker ( Read more... )

Things I'm going to miss about Derry/NI ( Read more... )

So today was the day of the big Thanksgiving class. It was actually a lot of fun. They were a good class and asked intelligent questions and they even did really well with the song... you never know about things like that with 4th graders. They might love it or they might suddenly think they're too cool to sing silly songs and just stare at you ( Read more... )

So right now I'm sitting here listening to my new The Streets cd (yay! it's awesome) and trying to find a way to explain Thanksgiving to a class of Irish children without too blatantly lying. My supervisor wants me to teach a class about Thanksgiving Tuesday. It's hard because most of the famous "first Thanksgiving" story is a bunch of patriotic ( Read more... )

Whoo hoo!! No more classes!! So now what the hell am I going to do ( Read more... )