K. So, I need to move to Graz. Like, now ( Read more... )

So, tomorrow I start in another school. I went there today and visited, and it was kinda nice. It still pisses me off that I can spend only a week at a time at any one school and then start the cycle over every three weeks. It's particularly bad because some of my hours rotate which class I'm in from week to week. Which is to say from 3 weeks ( Read more... )

Okay. So Austria is in fact weird. I'll give you that. And I say this mainly because of the experience of going to the local bar in town where everyone goes and finding that it is in fact completely full of my students--high school students. Not the 18 year olds, even, but everyone. Yeah, the daughter of my supervising teacher--herself also my ( Read more... )

I had a good day today. That's something new lately. For a minute there, I was actually happy to be in Europe ( Read more... )

So I have arrived in Weiz ( Read more... )

So, here's the plan ( Read more... )

Well, things are going pretty decently for me these days. I've been doing a decent job walking the knife-edge over the potential depression that I was afraid would be in store for me this summer. It's going to be a long year. Most of my time in Germany I couldn't wait for it to be over because of all the time I was losing away from my friends. ( Read more... )

So I'm entertaining thoughts of finding ploys to convince Wesleyan I didn't actually graduate and need to spend another year there. And, you know, finding ploys to pay for it. 'Cuz it's so cheap to go there and all. Right ( Read more... )

So I think I figured out why I spend so much time these days watching TV shows all the way through. It's not like I didn't do it when I was up at school, but it's taken on a different character now. Then it was something to do that required no effort. Now it's like seeing old friends. It's pretty surprising just how affecting it is, say, when ( Read more... )

Hey everyone ( Read more... )