The Diary Of John
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Gandhi
Saturday, February 21, 2004

I'm nearly moved hahaha!!!

This week i have started to move my stuff to my new place so hopefully in a week or so i will be all moved in. This week was spent searching for a new cooker and fridge and they were delivered yesterday and now there is just a matter of moving the bed and table and stuff and getting it all straightened out and i should be finally ready to get settled in there. Of course Roberta is really excited as i will be just five minutes walk from her place so it means that we will have more time together :-). I must get around to taking some photos as soon as i can lol.

i spent this morning giving class here and i also got asked to teach again at sobradinho with these new classes, i was a little hesitant at first but they are my old MEC group and i wanted to help them to finish all of their course and its just for a couple of months so i said yes. Plus it'll pay for some new stuff for my place and some money to go towards a vacation later in the year with Roberta :-). It'll be fun to try teaching this new style of lesson and i know the group will love learing alot quicker, master students can get a little bored sometimes so the speed will be a good challenge for them all :-). How many of these types of classes i will get i dont know, but they will have to keep the four idiots under control while i am there as i wont tolerate the crap i had to put up with of this dopey cleaner and secretaries this time around. We will have to see how it goes i guess right? lol

i think that its going to rain here before i go back home, i was sort of hoping that it would at least hold off until i get to planaltina but i dont think i'll be that lucky. Plus my cell phone is flat so i cant text Roberta but luckily i can use the Claro website to send messages for free :-).. So i'll go do that now hahaha!!!!!

Oh the picture i posted last time, from some new Mel Gibson film about christs life, looks like something out of Hellraiser to me though.

posted at 10:55 AM by john |  

Sunday, February 15, 2004

Can you guess what this film is about?


posted at 12:30 PM by john |  

Rain, rain, go away!!!!

Today it has done nothing but rain, it started waking me in the middle of the night and its still raining now. It doesnt do a very good job of cleaning the streets because most people here tend to dump everything outside their gates with this sort of out of sight out of mind philosophy. Of course when this crap gets washed up outside their gates again they are usually the first to complain about it. Sad init? Unfortunately in my part of Planaltina this happens every day but even in the richer parts they do this, as you can imagine on a hot day it makes the place smell just a little of decaying food and stuff. It doesnt help when people leave their dogs to roam the streets all night long ripping open all of the garbage bags so their owners dont have to spend money on feeding them. I dont think these problems are down to lack of education or anything like that, just that people dont give a shit!!

This morning i spent a few hours creating some stuff to do with my Taguatinga students, they are alot of fun and this weekend i took a few clips for them to watch just to do something a little different :-). I want to have a few simple activities that we can just spend a few minutes on or some vocabulary that i can just get the secretaries at the school to print out for me just to give them a break from always studying methodology all of the time. I must get around to taking a few photos and uploading them so everyone can see my wonderful students :-) One of my students from last semester (Yes, thats you Camilla hahaha!!!!!) has some photos of me with my old group so i will try to get a copy of them so i can post them here for you all to see.. I am hoping that my brother will send me some from the UK as well. Just have to wait and see okay: :-)

I have to go and do some clearing up at the little house i am going to move into this afternoon. I want to bag up some of the grass and weeds and stuff that i cleared last weekend so i'll just fill a few bags ready to go to the garbage people on Monday morning. I want to be moved in by the end of this month if i can, Roberta should be back here by next week so i will see if she wants to go help me to pick some new stuff for my place :-) I think that she returns from Sao Paulo today but im not sure as i havent got a message from her just yet. Probably ran out of credit for her cell phone as they are very expensive here. I'm sure she will call me as soon as she arrives here :-)

I guess i had better go write some emails and get off to clear my garden stuff up, well thats if the rain holds up for a while to let me get some of it done lol


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