Exam day

Today my students start their exams lol, for them it must be quite interesting but for me there is only one word to describe it - BORING lol. Why?.. because i get to sit for 90 minutes watching them do their tests in silence. How i am going to stop awake lol. Still once they are over it doesnt take long to correct them luckily. I dont think that any of my students will fail, they are all intermediate, advanced or master and wont have any problems with the exam.. i hope lol. I have just one today i think as the others will delay for a lesson or two to give them time to prepare. Am i worried they wont do well?.. No.. but some of them are a little nervous lol

Ive got to get around to going to look for a tv and dvd player this month, everytime i try to find time for this something always comes up lol. I have seen the ones i want now and just have to go to the store and buy them. I checked the models first online to make sure they were good ones and they said the dvd player i would like it great for the price. Of course in America its even better for the price lol I dont really need a video machine as i never record anything from the tv here, plus dvd's come in many languages including english :-) Alot of old films also come on dvd too, i wonder if my parents can send me films from england and they will play on players here?? I will have to check this out to see what dvd region Brasil would come under.

I must remember to pick up an envelope today too as i have some photos to post to my family, i might take out my other camera and snap off a few pics with this one instead of the other. Mine is okay but its a manual camera and a pain in the arse to use but has a great zoom lens on it. Its a bit heavy for carrying all over the place though. I'll see how i feel later and also if the weather holds out as at the moment its a bit cloudy. Maybe we are going to get some rain, at least it will kill off some of the dust :-) I should have taken it with me when i went to see the art exibitions but i didnt know i was going at the time lol. My family back in the UK love seeing photos of Brasil

Hmmm let me hunt around here for a cd to listen to...

**Huele A Tristeza - Maná**

Wow i havent listened to this cd for a while lol, I bet my neighbours must think that i am crazy.. (well crazier than usual for someone from England lol) because i change the music all the time, but has to be better than that cracker-shit they listen too all the time lol. Hmmm gospel has its place in the world but not every five minutes of the day.. well not in my day ;-). they can look on it as a sort of education if they like, that other music is fun too and young people use it to celebrate life, (But would i call myself young? hmmmm.. i will think on this lol) it must get so depressing listening to songs telling you that you are full of sin and that we have to grovel on our knees like unworthy dogs for forgiveness :-(. I find this very sad

I have to remember to take a video back to the store this evening, they all watched it here yesterday while i was on the phone to my parents. I was going to have a look at it this morning but i wont have time to see it before i have to go over to Sobradinho. I suppose i could watch some of it while the students are busy with their exams lol, Somehow though i dont think they would let me get away with that, i get alot of leeway as it is :-)

Okay time for me to go do something here or i'll be here still when its time to go and i have yet to type some emails too lol

posted at 8:26 AM by john |   

Sunday, October 05, 2003

Just increased my phone bill by $100 lol

God i dread to think how much that phone call to England has just cost me, its going to be big though as any sort of phone call overseas here is really expensive. Its always funny when i ring there though as i guess my accent has changed a bit so they alwaysd dont realize who it is on the phone lol. I know it sounds a little crazy right? :-) Was nice to catch up though with everyone there and they are going to post me some stuff like cds, newspapers and magazines and stuff to use here in my lessons. shame my brothers werent in though so i could say Hi to them as well but they are all out somwhere with friends. Ill try to get some new photos from them to post online.

Im debating whether to go a walk into Planaltina, theres not alot on the tv at the moment and a half-decent film only on later tonite. The nutty professor is on the tv at the moment but ive seen it before so i wont bother watching it again. Ill listen to some music instead and search online for some Chat-up Lines that i wanna try out using in class just for a bit of fun. I like to drop these crazy things in sometimes at the beginning or end of the lesson just to do something different. Than i think maybe ill go into Planaltina to get some ice-cream.. now that i thinks a good idea lol

Time to surf before i stuff myself silly ;-)

posted at 12:02 PM by john |   

Good Morning... Bon Dia... How are ya? lol

After a few liters of coffee i am finally awake lol. I have 19 emails this morning.. WOW.. its just a shame that 17 of the are junk emails. Reading some of them is amusing but having bigger breasts wouldnt suit me i think ;-). One bad thing about Hotmail is all the junk email that gets sent to it.

I spent some time this morning correcting excercises, you cant imagine how exciting it was lol. Still most of them are done and i can do the rest tomorrow at work when the students are doing their midterm exams. Its wierd but the exams are easier to correct and grade than the normal excercises, i can usually correct them after the exams so that i dont have to take them all home with me :-) I had a few things to type up to use in conversation class too but ive got those done as well.. Yeah!!!!!!!

Yesterday i spend the afternoon and evening with Tatiana watching films and also visiting the Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil. We visited the Andy Warhol Exibition which was really cool (But unfortunately Mr Worhol didnt get around to taking my picture which i think would have made a wonderful addition to the collection lol). They were also showing art by Keith Haring too, was interesting to see, alot of the pictures were done in a grafitti way, i read the pamphlet and apparently this was his sort of unique style :-). Anyway if you gays and gals get a chance you should go to see this as it was really interesting :-)

Paintings By Keith Haring

We also caught a couple of films too, one at the Academia De Tenis (I probably spelt that wrong lol) and then at the Centro Cultural. The first one was about the life of Robert Evans, who worked for Paramount Pictures and changed the fortunes of the company and although he loved his job, things didnt always go as he hoped they would. Its well worth seeing :-)

At the Cento Cultura they were showing films from Denmark, and we watched Alguém Como Hodder, about a little boy whos told he is going to save the world. He meets people along the way who help him, a fairy gives him advice along the way too. I liked this film alot, it was with portugues lengendas but i managed to understand most of what was happening. You guys should also go check these film out too (Yes my students, that means you too, go get some culture okay? lol) Oh and Tatiana.. thanks alot for taking me to see these :-)




WOW, could this be the longest thing i have written thats not about anything to do with school? lol.. Gosh ill be writing about myself before long... hmmm well maybe not ;-)

I think lunch is ready and im starving so ill go eat and hopefully my parents will ring after ive finished eating and not in the middle of lunch lol

posted at 10:20 AM by john |