Quick Update

Sorry it's been a few days (although I don't know if anyone is reading this), I've been busy. My schedule here is interesting. I teach four days a week, which doesn't sound bad but it is 6 hours on Monday and Wednesday and 4.5 hours on Tuesday and Thursday. Don't forget that's just the face-to-face time with the students. On top of that I have to plan the lessons, mark homework and do admin. In addition I have 1.5 hours of standby on Tuesday and Thursday which is general work for the school. Finally on Friday I have meetings which should be about an hour but never are. All this means I don't get home before 9:30 at night and when I do, I'm not in the mood to do much.

Anyway, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

So what have I been doing since I last spoke to you? Well.... see above.

I've had some work done to the flat, so that I now have lighting in my bedroom. I have these spotlights which didn't work properly so I asked the school to convert the one in the living room into a single pendant light and this is the result....

pretty eh? I intend to search out the lampshade which will cover this horror - wish me luck.

And finally, my latest acquisition...

And it is bloody fantastic, the clothes come out almost dry and dry on the airer within a day. No name yet though. OK enough boring housework type stuff.

I've just checked the FA cup final result - bad luck Dad, I'm sure they deserved better. Interestingly, there hasn't been any mention of it here, despite this being a football mad country. Instead they have been caught up in the local Championship which was won by Boca Juniors. They have two Championships a year here. I don't know why but I guess it slakes the local thirst. It is almost impossible to avoid knowing about football and what with the world cup coming up, it's going to be nightmare-ish. The school is even giving us a training session on how to include the world cup in our lessons! Well I have a couple of teenage classes so maybe it'll come in useful.