So I'm writing this from my first class seat, looking at sheep in the English countryside, in a National Express train.  Sheep and murders of crows.  Mostly I'm excited that I'm in a moving train and using la internet ( Read more... )

(just like the word superduperuncool)

I also find it very important to discuss the popularity of the mullet. In my last few days, I will try to take photos of the many kinds present. What exactly prompted me to this obvious epiphany? Something completely unobvious:

the dreadlock mulletWait, what? The dreadlock mullet? Yes. I was too ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had a good lesson. It was based off of Jimi's second birthday (yesterday), so I talked about pets. Everyone talked about their pets, then I had them read about the hatching dragon in the first Harry Potter and then create a pet shop in partners. It wasn't the best, and I made mistakes, and my directions weren't the clearest, but I ( Read more... )

My extra day of planning resulted in what became a great lesson plan. In fact, I'm so proud of it, I'll type out the skeleton -- in WPPPW form, of course ( Read more... )

After Easter, it appears most (but not all) of the Italian tourists have gone home; I will never look at aviator sunglasses or fur-lined jackets the same way ( Read more... )

Dear Italy,

Please take your tourists back. Prague doesn't want them. Send them out again when they don't have their aviators and loud voices. Or Eurotrash haircuts. Good luck with that.

Thanks,
Sheila xx

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Today was a good day. Today I made bacon ( Read more... )

Happy April Fool's Day ( Read more... )

Today I'm going to discuss the trials and tribulations of living in a new country, one especially that doesn't share a language or a common culture. In other words, this entry will comprise of every issue I rambled to Phillip about ( Read more... )