ITC sucks. Don't do anything through them ever. They just called to tell me I'm not teaching a summer camp with them. I canceled my classes that week, planned my vacation around it, and now it's too late to sign up for a different summer camp. I am beyond angry.

( My nights revolve around grocery shopping )

I was scheduled to have 115 hours this month, which would have been 23,000kc.

I actually had 77 hours, which is 15,400kc.

Lovely.

*^#$&^#$ Europeans with their &^@&^%#$ vacations...

Today one of the book activities was to fill in blanks with verbs and adjectives. As usual, I was mentally filling them in ahead of the student .
The sentence: I've ________ some _________ people...My initial thought: "I've killed some people ( Read more... )

I love my students.

"You'll never be a superhero. You're too lazy." -Petr

"...that big Negro in Pulp Fiction..." - Michal

After a listening exercise, the question was "What will be happening at 3pm?"
Correct answer: A meeting
Lukas's answer: "He will die."

"My son is a teenager, so I beat him every night." - JiriI literally spittaked at that ( Read more... )

Well, the bad part and main point to this post - internet is down in our apartment. No idea why. Haven't been able to get ahold of the landlord for months so we're not sure how to fix it. I'd really like him to show up and give us some new lightbulbs too, about half the bulbs in the apartment are blown. I'm not relishing the prospect of carrying a ( Read more... )

Thanks everybody for the bday facebook comments/lj entries/emails! :) I was out last night of course, and today is busy with end-of-the-month hours business and planning for some new classes I picked up that don't have books so I need to actually, ya know, work, and then Thursday is Tereza's bday and tomorrow I really need to do stuff like grocery ( Read more... )

It was a beautiful day out today, so I went exploring. I meant to stick to my neighborhood, but got off on the wrong tram stop so I decided to scout out a route that my parents can use to get to the castle without climbing the hill of doom. I succeeded, woo! And then wandered around Mala Strana, hiding from the tour groups and finding cool little ( Read more... )

7) All your students have the same $%#*@&# name.I have 3 students named Pavel (and I had an intensive with a Pavel for good measure). So last night I got a text from "Pavel" canceling "this week's lesson" due to work. I assumed it was Pavel D since he's always canceling/rearranging lessons for work. Normally we have lessons on Thurs night but we'd ( Read more... )

( New shiny things )