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Preoccupied
Tim sat staring at his pint of Guinness. He’d felt down and miserable so he had opted to have a drink in Mulligan’s of Poolbeg Street. There was something about the old-fashioned nature of the pub that had appealed to him when he was a student, but now, with only a handful of people in it, he saw it for what it really was. Pretty dingy, with worn ( Read more... ) -
Spanish too!
Over the last couple of weeks, since school started actually, I have been 'helping' some students who are studying Spanish. Their teacher has not been turning up for class, and whilst this is probably great for the first day or two, for students who want to do well it is frustrating, annoying and irritating ( Read more... ) -
Twitterpated
The clock hands moved slowly. The employees sat at the back, as the presenter struggled to read out the powerpoint slides. “Errm, motivation, that is errm, motivation to fill your point, I mean fulfill your p, p, potential, depends on, oh, six factors, which are intrinsic, self acting, errm, self actual,” then there was a long pause ( Read more... ) -
School sports
For some reason, well, I could explain it but it is not that exciting, we have three sports days for athletics. If we had a couple more it would be the Olympic Games, but in fact it is only a school activity. Of course, unlike the Olympics, we have different age groups to think of. Then again, the Olympics have to think about genders and so that ( ( Read more... ) -
Afternoon
One of my Christmas presents was a book of baking. As our oven stopped working on the 27th December, I did not get a chance to try out anything, but today I baked parmesan bread, foccaccia bread and some plain rolls. The latter are for my son to take to school. I also made a chocolate cake, but, lacking most ingredients, and inventing the others, ( Read more... ) -
Radio Espana
My excuse for listening to Radio Espana is that I want Christopher to learn Spanish. Of course, the sports commentary is going to be beyond him, but who knows, perhaps he will learn to shout "!goooooooooool!" one day ( Read more... ) -
School!
School has restarted and we had a long, a very long meeting to start the year off. Then a department meeting. After that I raced home to pick up my son, who needed to change his subject choices, and then I dealt with students who want to change courses ( Read more... ) -
Some assembly required
Mick’s day improved dramatically once he picked up the mail. At first he thought that the letter was a courtesy rejection from a school he had applied to work in, so he wrenched it open, but instead of “Dear Mr Reilly, We regret to inform you…” the letter said, “Dear Michael, Welcome! We are delighted to offer you a post as a teacher for next ( Read more... )