Hopefully for real this time I'll have a flat! I saw a couple today that I really liked. I'll know by tomorrow if I have it- I'm supposed to meet the other flatmate in the afternoon. My flatmates will be two Brazilians, 23 and 26, sister and brother. Hopefully I don't get caught in any sibling rivalries... heh. It was a really nice flat with a ( Read more... )

First of all, I have to thank Carmen, Mariló, and Emilio for all being so kind as to let me come over to their own homes to use internet on the weekends. Words cannot express how grateful I am, as I do not have any other way to access internet on the weekends (no internet at home, and the librarian shuts off the WiFi during closing hours as of ( Read more... )

Yesterday I gave a conversation session, since the students already have a good understanding of basic vocab and grammar and just need to work on speaking and listening. It's three adults, and we have a lot of fun talking about stuff. Sometimes I plan role-plays to help out with survival English, or other times it's things like, "What if?" ( Read more... )

I had my third class with Laura, the 6-year-old girl I´m giving clases particulares to. Today went really well... I started out with a game of Simon Says, and she seemed to really enjoy it. I´ll have to think of more games like that, where she can learn English by associating it with an action or visual or audio cue. I talked with one of the ( Read more... )

For those of you wondering, I´ve been having computer issues. By my own foolishness I broke the charger and possibly the part inside the computer that receives the power. And then the informática guys tried to take it apart to look at it (supposedly it receives current fine initially and there must be a bad connection somewhere else), and now the ( Read more... )