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Friday April 9 2004

I’m in my homestay and this is really awkward! I’ve already made a huge mistake. A. only has one parent, M., both Ms D. and I assumed it was her mother. It’s her father. Luckily her grandparents also live here, because the father only speaks a few words of English, nowhere near enough for a ( Read more... )

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Thursday April 8 2004

Today was one of the weirdest days of my life! We went on a huge ferris wheel on the top of a department store. J. and I were in an enclosed car with the teachers, which was funny, since Mrs K.’s afraid of heights and we were about 200 metres up! She almost had a heart attack when Ms D. ( Read more... )

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I really should have posted this last weekend, but I only loaded the photos onto my camera a couple of days so am doing it now instead.

Last Sunday we went out for dinner for my birthday. We went to a teppanyaki restaurant which, to cut a long story short, had deep-fried cheesecake on the dessert menu. As much ( Read more... )

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Today was my last day with the two Korean teenagers who have been studying in NZ since the end of July! A huge group of tutors and kids went out for dinner tonight and before they left they gave me cute thank you cards and took photos. For obvious reasons I’m not going to post the pictures, but here’s what the ( Read more... )

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Staci

Congratulations Staci! I’ll email you later tonight to get your mailing info and send out your prize! For those of you wondering what it is, I’ll take some photos before I send it out and then post them here after Staci has told me she’s received it.

Also, thanks heaps to everybody who made suggestions ( Read more... )

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Yes. This really should be Funny ESOL FRIDAY, but since I FAILed miserably at blogging yesterday, it is Saturday instead.

In short, no, I sadly do not have anything nearly so entertaining as last week’s Hitler Sausage (which you should definitely go and visit if you haven’t already done so), but there are a few ( Read more... )

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Late last week, Miss 14 was doing a writing exercise, with the assigned topic of “The Robbery”. Generally she is a very good writer, and really enjoys doing independent creative writing, but on this occasion she had made a rather humourous mistake.

Instead of “robbery”, she had put “rubbery”! I then had to ( Read more... )