Please forgive me for wanting to show off but I love our balcony.  It's a large L-shaped thing with the narrow portion of it covered.


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I've finished working at one school, all my students there took their Proficiency exam over the weekend.  That leaves me just the other place where my normal schedule is Monday, Tuesday and Friday.  Sounds good yes?  Well.  I added another lesson there twice weekly (which in actuality is good as we can always use the extra cash).

So.  My first ( Read more... )

( Bizarre Greek Easter customs, complete with rocket wars et. al. )

So the wife and I are on our way to church yesterday and traffic stops.  We're waiting.  I remark, "Ahh there's people getting out of that car up there".

We're waiting.

And waiting.

I say, "There are STILL people getting out!  What is this, a fucking clown car?"

...which means I get to spend my time doing all the shit around here I haven't done since Christmas.  My list also includes things that coudn't be done until now (for example, staining the patio furniture).

So.  Here's to vacations where you can work your ass off doing different shit.

Disclaimer: This has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with all ( Read more... )

Today, at the place I bought my bike, they're on sale 30% off.

Curse you Carrefour!

I had a bike in the States that I would ride around for exercise (yeah, I know, scary), enjoyment and stress relief and didn't bring it here when I moved.  I used to ride in a wonderful park near my house which in addition to paved paths boasted a 2.5 mile nature trail.

While riding a bike to get places in this city would be nothing short of ( Read more... )

Here's the latest offering from the weakest student in our Lower Proficiency level this year.  (For those of you who might be familiar with the Common European Framework this is supposed to be at a B2 level.)  While this student has had English lessons for years now he was first a student of mine a year ago and by then damage was done.  If the kid ( Read more... )

Name Days, or the celebration of your Saint's Name Day if you will.  You don't go visiting people here for their birthdays, you go on their Name Day instead.  This leads to spending countless hours annually with people that you'd a.) just rather not see or b.) don't want to spend time with then, as you'd rather be doing other things.  Last night we ( Read more... )

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