I rode the train into Eindhoven today to check more online jobs at the library (I should become a member here - 3 euros per hour is a bit much, what with train rides each way at 4,90 euros). JD went online and found me job leads yesterday for non-teaching positions in the Netherlands for native English speakers, but I didn't get my butt going in ( Read more... )

I'm heading to Frankfurt today to catch a train to Dresden. I looked at my tickets yesterday and realized that the reason it takes 10 hours to get to Dresden is because I will be spending midnight tonight through 4:30 tomorrow morning in the Leipzig train station before I catch a train to Dresden, getting there at 6:30. I wish that I could stay and ( Read more... )

I am not dead by the side of the road somewhere. I am in The Netherlands. Oh yeah, and I'm in love.

I met someone.
I'll call him JD. He's Dutch.
I'm now in Berlin, and I'm going to The Netherlands tomorrow.
Gotta start looking for a job there.

I'm in the old town of Krakow, Poland, right now. Luke and I spent 2 nights in Bratislava (grossly underwhelming after a month in Prague, but there were some nice areas of town). Adam never got in touch with us, but that's okay - he wanted to camp and we weren't big fans of that idea ( Read more... )

I finished up moderation a few minutes ago - a moderator from Oxford has been interviewing everyone about the course and our materials assignment for the last couple of days. Now I feel lost - I'm so used to having my days structured that having free time and having to find a job is hard to comprehend. I'm still in this mode of wondering just what ( Read more... )

My last teaching practice is over, and I think it went rather well since I came up with the idea, ditched it and hour and a half before the class for something else, and then came back to the first idea. I was still writing up my lesson plan most of the way through Luke's lesson. I think I confused the students a bit on some vocabulary, but it was ( Read more... )

I've got the language exam in about an hour and I'm getting unnecessarily stressed over it, I think, though I didn't exactly study much for it except for during my commute this morning while listening to Mary-Chapin Carpenter. I have really come to rely on music during this course - it's always on while I'm in my room at the hostel and I've been ( Read more... )

2 more days of this course....you had best believe I have been counting them down. My TP log is finished, I'm just beginning to write out my Materials Assignment, I turned in a shitty Learner Profile a day late but I'm past the point of caring, tomorrow is my last teaching practice, and we also have our language exam in the morning. We're going to ( Read more... )

Teaching practice from now on is optional on days when we're not teaching. I teach on Monday, so today I could have gone back to the hostel at 2:45, but I have my one-to-one lesson with Mirek at 7:45. I just found a lesson on business in one of the student books and I'm going to basically use that. I have run out of steam and it's too much effort ( Read more... )