One of my schools decided to take today off of school (the administrators at each school get to pick (I think) 5 days that they want to take as days off from school). One teacher planned a yea-teacher-outing for today in the town of Duernstein, which is along the Danube and is where Richard the Lion Hearted was held prisoner ( Read more... )

I've already had a few "last lessons" with some of my 5th level classes ( Read more... )

I went to Merkur (grocery store) after my lessons today to get some laundry soap. I have laundry soap, but my skin was reacting to it, so I decided to buy a different brand. My whole life I've never been allergic to anything except Zest and Irish Spring soaps and now this laundry soap. hmm ( Read more... )

I know that lately I've posting things online in lists, but I don't really care. Here's another ( Read more... )

I think I can handle this living on my own thing quite well. But there still is one problem: spiders. I see one and automatically go into this strange, freakout-ish, cautious, preparing-to-fight-ish mode ( Read more... )

Thank you all for the wonderful suggestions on what to do regarding my article writing situation. I ended up writing the article and turning it over with a smile (although a forced one). Actually, the EnglishTeacher was reading it over and you know what she said afterwards ( Read more... )

Warning: It's suuuper long and for sure has no interest to anyone. This is probably something that I should've written in my normal (as in handwritten) journal. You might not want to continue! Really, I'll most definitely understand if no one makes it to the end ( Read more... )

On December 26th, I went to the airport with Irene to go pick up Beth! How exciting ( Read more... )

Alright, so December 24th is Christmas Day in Austria. I was going to head over to Irene's house to celebrate with her. Before leaving my place, I went downstairs to my landlords to say "Merry Christmas" and to give their daughter, Gloria, a gift. We exchanged these gifts and talked about what we were doing for the day. And then as I was about ( Read more... )

Hmm ( Read more... )