The Long Weekend

This weekend is a long weekend here. That is because Monday is a national holiday, not that my students can tell me why it's a holiday. Now when Monday is a holiday we don't have a meeting on Friday so technically we have a four day weekend. However, long weekend or not, I still have to plan lessons for next week. I also have my Spanish lesson on Friday morning so I didn't even get much of a lie-in. Then I spent until 6:30 this evening planning, writing and generally sorting things out.

I had planned to go away this weekend but the person I was supposed to be staying with hadn't been in contact so I didn't know where I was staying or how to get there. In the end I emailed him this morning, cancelling. I'll probably go next weekend instead, when hopefully I'll be less tired.

On a completely unrelated note, the weather here is hot and humid and the only way to keep cool is to open the windows and allow the breeze in. Unfortunately this also allows all the insects in (including but not limited to the mosquitoes), so now my lovely white celing is covered with small black spots - all live insects, I couldn't kill them all even if I wanted to. I've got the mosquito repellent plug in and I'm thanking my lucky stars that I don't react badly to bites.