The Diary Of John

Saturday, June 19, 2004

Windows 2000..

Well i have to saythat win2000 isnt very good, well at least when its not setupproperly. We have to suffer it on one of the lab computers here in Taguatinga and the internet explorer doesnt work at all. Well only if you go into my computer and select it from the drop down list there. Why its this way i have no idea, after all its just a shitty little lab with no need for all of this password shite!! The ones we use in my base school just have windows 98 and it works just fine all of the time but here they seem to wanna try crazy things, we even had a linux pc here once. What a waste of time that was, geeky program that is just good for thos people that like tinkering all of the time and its just as prone to problems as any windows program too. Trust win98se2 is the best hahaha!!!

Im just installing Hot Potatoes onto one of the computers here, i discovered though that you need to have the latest version of internet explorer to use the pages it makes though. This means that the lab here in Taguatinga cant run these as its using some out of the ark version of IE. How embarrassing lol. The only students who seem to be able to use the crosswords etc that i uploaded the other day are mine in Planaltina hahaha!!

Okay time to go search the net for a serial hack for Hot Potatoes hahaha!!!

posted at 6:33 AM by john |

Friday, June 18, 2004

Vin Diesel..

It has to be said.. Vin Diesel rocks!! All of his films to date have been shithot and The Chronicles Of Riddick will be just as good too. So heres a pic of the man!!

posted at 5:53 PM by john |

Thursday, June 17, 2004

Nearly time to party..

Well only a couple of days and it'll be the teachers party and a chance to see how many people will be drunk this year and end up in the swimming pool. I wont as i have better things to do that to get drunk, like watch what everyone else does so i can remember and tell them about it once they sober up hahaha!! It'll be fun though and later i think we may go to the cinema to see a movie if we have time.

My student card was made today and it always amazes me how many times i have to tell them my name and every year they get it wrong on my card :-) The guy is going to come back and correct it next week i think, i will have to write my name in huge letters so they can read it clearly hahaha!! The photo isnt very good but because we had twelve made at once we got a free photo of the two of us which was really cool. I'll get a frame for it at the weekend so we can put it up somewhere in my house. Maybe i will make a copy so that i can post it to my parents along with some pics we took at Robertas farm :-).

I finally managed to get all twelve of my groups net exercises completed and uploaded to the site this morning. Now i have to make a half decent webpage so that the index looks coolish. I have no idea what it will look like yet but maybe one of the students can design something for me, i am getting lazy as it gets to the end of the semester lol.Once its all done i'll post the site here..

I will have to find a way to get all of my mp3s copied onto a cd here so i can use them in class. I have quite a few that i wanna use with the students in listening exercises etc but need a cdwriter in the lab to burn them so i can take them to the other classes. Time to talk with the boss hahaha!!!

I have to go check my email as i have loads of it piling up and havent got around yet to checking it. Having three accounts doesnt help though, i need them to keep all of my emails from work etc seperate. Nice google one though as it has 1000meg :-) I use it with my brother as he is always sending photos from the UK and they soon fill up my hotmail account. I though maybe hotmail would increase their size seeing as google are competing with them but so far i dont see anything different. Im sure they will change soon though, yahoo's terrible 100 meg is still way below the google offering hahaha!!

Okay, i have to get outta here..

posted at 6:42 AM by john |

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Mu Online..

Me and a couple of the students are tryinig to install Mu here but its very slow going as it requires loads of updates. It'll give me something to play though in the vacation time hahaha!!

I found out today that i have to do some shitty training course that lasts for three days. If it was the advanced one i wouldnt have minded as at least it would be interesting but the one we are signed up for is just a waste of time as i already use better stuff than this in my classes now. I have a book load full of stuff that i have for my groups that i use as extra material and yet i have to do a basic training course just so they can have it all in portugues. Somehow i dont think i'll be attending this one, you know? hahaha!! What really galls me though is that one of the teachers who hasnt even done the full teachers training course gets to go on the advanced course while the teachers that have been here a long time miss out. Stinks of some major ass kissing if you ask me!!

Well Mu is taking ages to update here with the dsl. I wonder if it would be quicker to just download the expansion and updates and install manually. Just visiting the site now to see how long it'll take me to download it all.. Their website isnt working properly. I guess they must be having problems there. I'll try again later on.

This weekend is the teachers party in Sobradinho, we are going to go but not for the whole day as we wanna go to the cinema to see a movie. It's been a while since we last went to the cinema so its going to be nice to get out of the house to two different places in one day :-) I cant remember if its mine or Robertas turn to choose the movie hahaha!!

Oh well i had best go get some other stuff done here. I have shitloads of excercises to correct and then to prepare for my MEC review class later on tonite..

posted at 12:40 PM by john |

Monday, June 14, 2004

Been busy..

Man i have been rushed off my feet the last few days. I have been prepping my groups for their final exams and also trying to get some pages made for my groups for next semester too. I have about ten made at the moment which is nice but have to get more done plus some reading comp stuff made for my MEC groups as well. I'll try to get some done over the school break here :-)

Also i have been giving alot of extra classes too as people get ready to take their final exams for the end of the current semester. I found out today that i have to attend some wierd training course so i wont go to that as it is always in portugues and i cant be bothered to struggle my arse off trying to understand what they are saying when everyone there can all speak good english. Whats the point of having a advanced teachers course for english if they give it in portugues? The logic of this defies me hahaha!!! I'll get another teacher to go in my place instead, im sure there must be someone who wants to go spend a whole day listening to someone waffling on in portugues here hahaha!!!

I got a new cell phone the other day, some nokia thing that has WAP but its a little slow and expensive to use too. I cant even get any free tunes for it either, SHIT!!!

Oh sounds as though my group is here, i had better go get ready to do something ;-)

posted at 5:52 PM by john |