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, April 16, 2005

Kazaa..

I have to install Kazaa again, i just looked up the price of some books on the net and man im not going to pay over R$100 for them hehehe! Kazaa is always good for getting free books and documents. There is always some nice kind person scanning books for others to use and print for free :-) Thank god for the internet. Being an English teacher here in a poor country like Brasil would be inpossible without some photocopied books or free downloads etc. Kazaa lite resurrection is just the job. It`ll also come in handy for the new Harry Potter book as i got all of them free from the internet using Kazaa too. Can u believe they are going to charge over R$100 for a bookthat costs just $7 in the UK? What a rip off!!!

This afternoon i am just going to sleep, i was up at 7am this morning and now im knackered lol. At my age i need all the sleep i can get! Plus there is some wanker that lives up the street who drives up and down the road at 2am with his fucking stereo on as loud as he can waking everyone else up, someone should take a BIG knife and cut his balls off, maybe he would have a bit more consideration for other people then. Ill sleep like a log until Roberta gets here.

Well Kazaa is finding some Cambridge stuff, good as this stuff tends to be really expensive here in Brasil. I wonder if i can actually get a user to stay online long enough for me to download it now hehehe! Oh i must remember to get some audio files to use in my class too, nice thing the school has a burner to make it alot easier and we use Neros burning as well. What more could i ask for? hahaha!!

Well i suppose i`d better get off here and do something..

posted at 8:29 AM by john |  

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Slow..

Ive been slow with posting recently, with exams and also the computer here going down and taking me a while to figure out why we werent connecting to the internet etc. Now everythings up and running again. No Ms Office though as my cd doesnt wanna work so we are trying out Openoffice. to be honest i dont really like this program much, True i like office alot but not because its from Microsoft but just because its easier to use and everyone is familiar with it. I`m going to try to get a hold of a copy of Office 2003 if i can as its banging!!

I have been trying out ranking games with my students the last week or so, mostly with my MEC2 group. The other day one of my TN7 groups wanted to try out this game too, the vocabulary is different as its not for their level or ages but we tried it anyway. Man they were really good, once they god the vocab all sorted out they had 20mins to dicuss in their groups and come up with their answers and reasons for their choices. They wre trying to decide from a list of girl which one would be sacrificed to the gods. Each girl has good and bad points including a retarded person and a girl who had rich parents who tried to use their money to save their daughter from being slaughtered. Not really a game for squeamish students hahaha! When they had finished they presented their answers and reasons for their choices and they were excellent, well thought out and they had used dictionaries and stuff to make their answers the best they could within the time limits. After they had spoken they started to discuss between the two groups why they thought each other was wrong, i wish we had more time left in this lesson as this spontaneous discussion sort of caught me by surprise and i would have liked to have carried it on further. So well done to my TN7 (Tues-Thurs) for your excellent work hehehe!

This afternoon i am supposed to watch a film with my group, i have no idea which one we are going to watch yet though, I have a copy of the Nicolas Cage film, National Treasure which i think i will bring as it would be a good choice for them as they are youngsters.

We are using XP here as i dont like Windows2000 and its alot easier for me to set everything up. The school had a contract with a guy to come fix things but i decided i would do it myself as he never turned up. Probably stalling to get more money from the school i guess. I had a bit of a problem with the internet config but was determined not to pay some loser and soon figured out when was wrong. It has alot of features to make it easier for everyone to use too, Win2000 is just good for an office and not a school lab where multimedia if a def priority hahaha!

I`d better go and eat as i am running out of time before i have to call Roberta!!


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