The Diary Of John

Thursday, January 15, 2004

Looks like its all working again :-)

Well i dont know why my site wasnt loading yesterday but it all seems to be working just fine now :-). Maybe they were doing something to the servers at Tripod.

This morning i am going to meet Roberta at CCAA so this is just a quick post as we are going to study together both english and portugues too. The school is open most of the day and evening too so it means i can use the lesson plans and stuff to give Roberta a hand to study for the TT1 test that she is hoping to take later this month or beginning of the next month. There are a few of them that want to try to jump from one level to a more advanced one, i think they ill all easily pass :-).

I made a copy of a book about english prepositions yesterday, i thought that my atudents would like to have a flick through it when they get time. Alot of them have questions about this so the book has many suggestions and stuff in it and excercises and stuff for them to test themselves. It cost just R$4 to get a copy which was great as the original must have cost R$20 or more lol. Nice thing about Brasil is that copying books here is a breeze with all copy shops doing it :-). I must have saved hundreds of bucks getting books copied since i have been here :-)

Getting text messages here lol, i use those things as much as i use emails now, plus they are easy for Roberta to let me know if she is going to be early or late on the bus here which is good as the bus station in Planaltina doesnt have many things to do if i have to wait lol. Watching drunken people throw up isnt very exciting lol

No emails from my family in the UK, i was hoping to get my brother to send me some stuff from the Uk, cds and stuff like that. Now he has asdl i can get stuff downloaded very quickly and posted over to me, nice :-). There are a few programs that i want him to download for me too that would take me hours to do here, for him would probably be just an hour or so lol. I'll email them again later on if i get time

Okay time for me to get my arse outta here and to the school so i can meet Roberta :-).

posted at 6:06 AM by john |

Wednesday, January 14, 2004

My site is missing lol

I guess that tripod are having problems as i can make on blogger but cant load my website lol. I'll try again later on :-)

posted at 1:48 PM by john |

Monday, January 12, 2004

How did your weekend go?

So guys and gals, how was your weekend? did you have a good time?. Mine was excellent as we spent it together watching films and stuff. Good job that CCAA has a dvd player lol, it makes watching films alot easier in english as getting films here in english on tape isnt easy unless you get a pirate one but they only appear rarely in Planaltina lol. Saturday we spent some of the day at the school watching Below, which is actually quite good for a ghost story. Its worth waching just to pass a couple of hours :-)

Wow my friend Arllena is trying to fill my email inbox i think lol. I'll reply to them in a minute, my god some of them are huge so its no wonder that Hotmail have sent me a load of those bloody emails saying my box is full hahaha! When the new semester starts at CCAA i think ill take Roberta to the conversation classes in Formosa as she loves to practice her spoken english and there are alot of students there that love to speak in english too :-). It'll be alot of fun i think for everyone as they can also meet people from the other schools too. I really must find a site so that we can use the webcam at the school to talk to other people online that speak english. Hopefully they will get the internet working soon at Planaltina CCAA so i can use it to find a site we can use :-)

I have to remember to pick up the film X-men 2 from the video store as we are going to watch it tomorrow, roberta has never seen it so i'll pick up some popcorn and cola and we can spend the afternoon watching films :-). Oh man, can you believe that its raining here yet again? i'll sit it out here in the lanhouse as i dont wanna get wet through as i am going to spend time at CCAA trying to study some portugues later and dont wanna sit there wet through and get the flu or something.

Anyway im off to play counterstrike for a bit and then hopefully the rain will have stopped :-)

posted at 8:45 AM by john |