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Friday, January 30, 2004

I need a vacation lol

Just from vacation and already needing another, just taking a break from preparing some stuff for monday to check my email and also wrap up something that i brought for Roberta so we can celebrate 7 weeks of dating lol. It's always nice to see her face when i try to suprise her with something :-). We are planning to see this African show they are presenting at the Banco Brasil Centro Cultura which should be alot of fun. I love seeing this sort of stuff and so does Roberta. i wonder if they will let me take the camera in there?

|nyway better get back to it or i'll be messing around all over the weekend :-)

posted at 5:37 PM by john |  

Just wasting time here :-)

Well i have the whole day to waste so here i am at the lanhouse messing around for a couple of hours, which unfortunately are almost up lol. I was messing around with some roleplay game that they have installed here then remembered i had time to post here. It'll be nice when i have myself a computer so that i can get online as much as i used to before so my posts will be more frequent.

Yesterday i got my groups from the school and it works out okay as i can still give conversation classes at the other school if they ask me, nice as the money from those is going towards a vacation that me and Roberta are saving for later in the year. I got just advanced groups and master groups again, just once in a while i would like to try out one of the high beginner groups but i couldnt take this time as all the teachers at the school asked for no night time classes which left me with the night and evening groups only :-(. Still its all money right and it all spends hahaha!!

I managed to get myself a house now too so in a couple of weeks i will move out and into this new place. The house is owned by the school so i just give a couple of classes extra to pay the rent on the place and as its on the school property i dont have to worry about being late to work etc. Also its just five minutes walk from Robertas grandmothers so her mum wont worry when we are at my place :-). I'll move in maybe two or three weeks depending on how long it takes me to get some furniture together. Luckily for me i dont really need alot of stuff at the start, i usually eat alot in resteraunts too but that will change once im moved as Roberta tells me she is going to show me how to cook Brasilian food for her. My rice is terrible and ends up like asphalt hahaha!!!

My brother told me this week that his company has crashed, im not suprised though as it was a shithole when i worked there when i left school years ago and it hasnt improved all that much lol. The good thing about the UK is that there are many jobs in factories so he'll soon get another job.. doing what though i have no idea hahaha!!

I must try to find time to post on all the sites that i used to before, i am always running out of timen and now the new semester is here i will have less time until they fix the problem with the internet at the school. Then i will have alot more computer time as i dont have to pay for using the school internet :-) I'll get Roberta to post on here too as she will be able to use the school internet as well.

I have the hassle of dragging out all my material later to see what stuff i have already prepared for the classes next week so i know what i need to get ready. The MEC students though will soak up whatever i give them and especially the new stuff as it makes a change from studying methodology all of the time. I'll prep some crazy vocabulary and stuff, it should be good fun as last time we did chat-up lines and all these other weird things. They liked though as it gives them something differerent and fun to learn. I'll get some new games off the internet and activities as well. A couple of the teachers also have some stuff that i can look through plus a visit to SBS to pick up some new books and material. They stock loads of decent stuff there and i get a good discount being a teacher too :-).

Okay.. gotta go do something now - Like ring my girlfriend hahaha!!!


posted at 8:44 AM by john |  

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Okay its all working :-)

A quick post as i have to go to the school and collect some stuff for tomorrow but the Atom stuff is setup and running now and there is a link at the bottom of the links list for people who want to add this site to their news reader program. Yeah!!! hahaha!!!.. I'll tidy it up and make it a little better when i have time.. god i hate html hahaha! I will have to try and find a better looking graphic for it too as the little xml one somehow doesnt look all that good, unless its just me!

Okay have to get my running shoes on as the school will close in 30 mins.. I'll do a longer post later in the week :-)

posted at 5:08 PM by john |  

Sunday, January 25, 2004

trying to setup atom again :-)

I'm still trying to setup atom again so that i can have my site syndicated but it doesnt seem to wanna work. i just get errors all of the time about java timeouts and stuff. 'll have to try and get my friend eder to give me a hand to sort the bloody thing out lol. It's really beginning to annoy me as i am sure that i ahve set it all up correctly but i still cant get it to appear properly. Typical a new toy that i cant get to work hahaha!

spent the whole day with roberta today, well apart from a couple of hours this morning where she was visiting friends so i hit the lanhouse, yes im here again too lol. Its the best place for me to get online as its dirt cheap to use the net here at the moment. We were talking about holidays and stuff so maybe later on in the year after i have moved house we will go on vacation for a little while hopefully to the coast as i have yet to see the beaches here in Brasil and everyone tells me that they are very special :-) Roberta is home now but will be back wednesday as she is going to take her TT1 test on wednesday. My week starts tomorrow with this bloody boring methodology training about how to use a dvd player. Can you believe that there are people who need this training:? lol. I have no choice but to go or they can take off some of my groups, i have to suffer those idiot secretaries too, should be good fun annoying those things for the day though. can always use this time to practice my portugues bad words ;-)

I am sure that there are some photos scanned somewhere of roberta, i'll have to have a look and see where she has them stored online so i can post one or two of them here if she will let me that is lol. One of my students has a scanner so i can get him to scan them and email them to me if Roberta cant find hers. Bear with us on this okay and as soon as we have them i'll shove them here. Well if i can get the upload to work properly

Let me go try sorting out the settings okay and i'll post again


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