The Diary Of John
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Friday, October 17, 2003

Having a bad day here lol

I have no access to the internet at home as the monitor has given up the ghost and on top of that... the modem at the school burned out too so i had to travel all the way to the other school just to check my email this morning but i had to come here anyways lol. They said three weeks for the school modem and god knows how long before we get the monitor fixed at home so posts will be a little few and far between okay? Hopefully they will fix the home monitor quickly but it will depend i guess on what they say is wrong and how much its going to cost. This is Brasil and everything is expensive here and the moment they realise im english the price usually jumps up because all foreigners are rich lol

Visited a place here the other day called Gates Pub... Can you believe we had to pay R$20 just to get out of the place? :-( Enough said on that subject i think

Im still getting text messages even today wishing me a happy week from my students as its teachers day this week.. or it was lol. Nice to know they all think enough of me to send the messages and i like these teenager groups alot as they always like to do something different :-)

Yesterday for something different we showed some comedy stuff in the lessons. They have clips etc to pass in the classes in the schools but only at certain times but the ones we bring from home etc we can pass whenever i guess so they got to see some stuff from The Comedy Zone which they really liked.. The one with Jim Carey is just so funny lol. There were other clips too but that one had to be their favorite one out of all of them. There was just one group that didnt react very well, a boring GS2 group that hardly ever smile etc.. we have tried many things with them but they just must be a naturally quiet (Boring lol) group. I hope that i dont get this group as they will be very tiring to teach i think.

Im trying to decide what to do this afternoon, i guess i could go to the movies as there were a few new films playing here at the weekend. Ill check the website later on and see whats available i think. If not i can always just go shopping for pirate cds etc, if the computer was working i could have played Tombraider or something ;-) Ill think of something though, i can always ring students and get a dvd to watch over at the other CCAA school as i have quite a few students who like to get together and watch dvds, get popcorn and other goodies etc and just relax lol. Its good fun and they like to do this activity alot so they can practice listening in english.

I got some nice websites the other day to check out with activities that i can do in my MEC groups, i hope that i get time to try out some of them as i think quite a few of them will be good for a laugh :-) Ive got to get around to playing with roleplay too, i can never get time to experiment with it in class though although the conversation classes its going to be a must. I think the next set of conversation classes i will give ill do some roleplay with some subjects that i know teenagers love to talk about.. boy/girl friends, parties and stuff like that lol. I think will be a little crazy but alot of fun too :-) We will see what happens i guess right?..

Okay i had better check out those sites for class and then find something to do this afternoon.. I think its going to be the cinema though.. wonder if i can find anyone to go with lol.. Bye for now.. :-)

posted at 9:07 AM by john |  

Sunday, October 12, 2003

I having trouble thinking of a title today lol

Well sunday already, wow this week has gone really fast. I work nearly every day though so i guess that helps. Planaltina isnt the most exciting place in district Federal lol. Friday i gave my first class at formosa and altogether i guess there were 45-50 students that took part in the conversation class, it was fast and alot of fun and the boss told me that alot of people liked it and they would invite more students to go next class. Yeah more thats what we want aint it? lol. Its going to be alot of fun i think and i have many new things that i didnt get to try out in the other schools to experiment with too. I?ve also finished all of the exams too apart from one group who will take theirs next saturday. Everythings going well so far.. for once hahahaha!!!!!!!

I went to the cinema last night to see The Italian job, its quite good but i missed a little of it when my cell buzzed and i had to go to see who it was because i didnt recognise the number and it wasnt anyone i knew lol. shame really as i missed one of the good parts of the chase scene. Tonite i am going to the movies with friends again but im not sure yet what we will go and see. Ill take the paper with me and we can look and decide on the way :-) I love the cinema, the experience of the big screen.. can you guys tell? :-)

Tomorrow morning i hope to go look at some new computers and get one to use for stuff i do at the school etc. This one i use now at home isnt very powerful and there are some programs that i want to use that need quite a bit of grunt from the pc to use them so now i have three jobs i can go and get one for myself. I have a couple of places to go look at tomorrow and should easily pick one up from one of those places. I already have my english version of windows XP to use that i brought when i lived in england and i think ill make it a dual boot system with linux too. I know linux is a geek product but i would be interested to see how much its improved since i last tried it back in england. Hopefully it will be alot easier to setup and install, you have to have windows though just to play some decent games lol. I should moce into my little house i hope next week so itll give me something to do once im in there as i dont intend buying a tv yet. I dont watch all that much television and can always get a dvd drive for the computer if i want to watch films and stuff

Ive been preparing some stuff with powerpoint to use with my groups as well, its alot easier as i can email it to myself or just shove the file online and then open it in the classroom later on for the students. Im in the middle of doing some Expressions, Phrasal Verbs and some chat-up lines too. Yep, you read that right, my MEC groups are going to study chat-up lines just for a bit of fun lol. Should be good for a laugh ;-)

Okay its time for me to get something done here and then go over to my friend tims house to get to the movies.. Bye.. Bye lol


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