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abbey is closing the class of a permanent teacher. they asked him if he would take an evening class instead, but he insisted on an afternoon class. Since I have had my afternoon class for the shortest time of anyone at the school, they felt obligated to kick me out in favor of him. They're still desperate to keep me... and I have to explain my ( Read more... ) -
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Avi sent me a threatening facebook message on friday (if I spread rumors that he's not Jewish he'll make my life unlivable or something). he's now blocked and officially asked not to contact me again. Parents want me to go friends-only on my lj, change my linkedin profile, blah blah blah. I understand their concern and get a bit worried every ( Read more... ) -
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So. The girls decided it'd be a good idea to ask our landlord to lower our rent, since about half of KK's students have done it successfully. They said that two of the girls are thinking of moving out due to job transfers and we'd need lower rent to get someone else into the rooms. This is halfway true: Candice is moving to a different location ( Read more... ) -
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Rick is moving in with KK so they can start to save money for the baby. This will only last for three and a half months, so I hope we can put up with it. The other girls saw more of a problem in my insistence that we recycle than in another human being sharing our household. They also want to buy a bigger fridge. On the plus side we meddled ( Read more... ) -
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today was not my day at Jens's house- the roof leaked over the spare room, so I went to clean that up, and straightened his house for when his landlord showed up to fix it. Found that the new carton of milk had spilled all over the fridge, and when I went to get water to clean it one of the drain pipes under the sink detached. They're PVC so I ( Read more... ) -
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thursday was Dubravko's last day. He's one of my last original students in this class. He said I was one of the best teachers he'd had in his life. The cover class also thanked me for good times over the past two weeks ( Read more... ) -
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the Lush deal was misdescribed to me by the employee. An 80-euro bag cost 30, rather than spending 30 on other things and getting 80 of bag. Without the other things I was expecting to get, and getting only a load of unessentials, this makes it not a good deal ( Read more... ) -
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It's been a decently lucky day. Went to the Gardai and didn't have to wait, since any month but September does not suffer the influx of students that require queuing from 6:30am. Turns out the graduate scheme is just another bloody student visa stamp and I had to pay the fee for a NEW garda card, which has gone up since August to 200 euro. But I ( Read more... ) -
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yesterday TWO passports arrived in the mail! they apparently needed the first one as "citizenship evidence" and returned it when they were done with it. This whole process would have caused me so much less grief if they could have managed to impart that to me at the start. But anyway, I have my new passport, which means I get to go to the guards ( Read more... )