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Long update is long!
Jul. 24th, 2009 06:12 pmHey all!
Well, it's been a while since I updated so I figured I'd better let you all know that I'm alive and well. Just extremely busy/tired. Work keeps me on my toes, and even though I don't work full days (only Monday and Wednesday are 6 hours, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday are only 3) every day it's mentally exhausting. Especially when you get one student who's constantly asking you complex grammar questions (and then asking you why they let you teach English when you don't know all the grammar *scowls*. I am human. I don't know everything. English teacher does not equate to walking grammar dictionary).
So, work is from Monday to Friday. I have to get up at 6am, which probably doesn't help the tireds any, and then head into work and teach either 3 hours or 6 hours. I have one class that is mine and I see them five days a week. I teach one elective class (Elementary-Lower-Intermediate Everyday English... don't ask me what I'm supposed to be teaching, I've been winging that class for a month) as well and I see them twice a week for three hours on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons after lunch.
There's lots of paperwork, too, but most of that I can get done before I head home after work. I'm in the process of writing ISR's (Individual Student Reports), which are basic little report cards. The upside of these (despite the fact that I have to take them home and do them) is that I only have to do 11 of them (as opposed to the 80 something I had to do in Poland)... I've just got no bloody clue what the hell I'm supposed to write on them *pulls a face*.
In other news I discovered that the local A&R Bookworld sells manga.. and they've got Fushigi Yuugi and Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden!!! So I've been catching up on my reading. The heroine in the Genbu Kaiden is pretty kick-arse!
I've also bought myself a new toy for when I start travelling again. A mini-laptop. It's great, nice and light and easy to carry around (it fits in my handbag for cryin' out loud!!!! Okay, I have a big handbag, but still!). I figure I'll take both with me wherever I end up travelling next and the big laptop will stay at 'home' (wherever that ends up being) and then the little one comes travelling with me. I got tired of trying to lug the big laptop after my back started to hurt from the weight of it. That and this one will be so much easier to pull out of my bag at the x-ray machines at customs (you have no idea how painful it was pulling the other one out constantly).
It's a white Samsung N120 and it's been dubbed 'Precious' as in *affects a Gollum voice* "My... Prrrrecioussssssssss!"
You can blame Dad for that one. I was simply calling it 'My Baby' *laughs* he started calling it Precious and using the Gollum voice and it kinda stuck.
I'd been eyeing it off at JB-Hifi since I got back from Poland. I was going to wait another paycheck before I bought it but they dropped the price by $100 within the space of a week trying to clear out their stock. $697 is a damn good price so I grabbed it. Mum said (when I was talking to her after I bought it) that she was actually going to buy it for me if I didn't have enough money because she knew I was going to need it when I was travelling and it was a good price. I could've just paid he back later.
I <3 my Mum.
Also went to the doctor today. I had to get a few things, asthma meds etc. I also had to see him about my allergies. They've been really, really bad lately. I also have this awful cough that has been with me since I got sick at winter break back in January/Febuary. Doctor put me on a 5 day course of Prednisone (*shudders* steriods wonderful). He reckons that the cough is definately left over from when I was sick but it just hasn't healed. Then I got back here and my allergies fired up and that bloody itchy as all hell rash turned up on my legs and everything's just kinda snowballed from that. This should hopefully clear it all up and give my body a chance to heal.
Thank god it's only for 5 days! I took the first tablet today so I'll be finished it by Monday morning.
I now also have the entire Magnificent Seven series on DVD. I'm not going to go into the dramas I had ordering it through JB (Do NOT order anything from JB-Hifi. Just don't. Trust me on that. They took my order when the DVD wasn't even in the system) but I ordered it Sunday night through Ezy DVD and it arrived today *grins*. I is a happy Sheena.
I also found this amazing Thai/Vietnamese restaurant last week. I was having flashbacks to this dinky little restaurant in Erawan, Thailand while I was eating my lunch there. I haven't had Thai food that good since... well, Thailand!
Right, well, this update's getting long and I still have to write those bloody ISR's so I'd better finish this.
So, overall message in this update: I'm alive *grins*
Well, it's been a while since I updated so I figured I'd better let you all know that I'm alive and well. Just extremely busy/tired. Work keeps me on my toes, and even though I don't work full days (only Monday and Wednesday are 6 hours, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday are only 3) every day it's mentally exhausting. Especially when you get one student who's constantly asking you complex grammar questions (and then asking you why they let you teach English when you don't know all the grammar *scowls*. I am human. I don't know everything. English teacher does not equate to walking grammar dictionary).
So, work is from Monday to Friday. I have to get up at 6am, which probably doesn't help the tireds any, and then head into work and teach either 3 hours or 6 hours. I have one class that is mine and I see them five days a week. I teach one elective class (Elementary-Lower-Intermediate Everyday English... don't ask me what I'm supposed to be teaching, I've been winging that class for a month) as well and I see them twice a week for three hours on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons after lunch.
There's lots of paperwork, too, but most of that I can get done before I head home after work. I'm in the process of writing ISR's (Individual Student Reports), which are basic little report cards. The upside of these (despite the fact that I have to take them home and do them) is that I only have to do 11 of them (as opposed to the 80 something I had to do in Poland)... I've just got no bloody clue what the hell I'm supposed to write on them *pulls a face*.
In other news I discovered that the local A&R Bookworld sells manga.. and they've got Fushigi Yuugi and Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden!!! So I've been catching up on my reading. The heroine in the Genbu Kaiden is pretty kick-arse!
I've also bought myself a new toy for when I start travelling again. A mini-laptop. It's great, nice and light and easy to carry around (it fits in my handbag for cryin' out loud!!!! Okay, I have a big handbag, but still!). I figure I'll take both with me wherever I end up travelling next and the big laptop will stay at 'home' (wherever that ends up being) and then the little one comes travelling with me. I got tired of trying to lug the big laptop after my back started to hurt from the weight of it. That and this one will be so much easier to pull out of my bag at the x-ray machines at customs (you have no idea how painful it was pulling the other one out constantly).
It's a white Samsung N120 and it's been dubbed 'Precious' as in *affects a Gollum voice* "My... Prrrrecioussssssssss!"
You can blame Dad for that one. I was simply calling it 'My Baby' *laughs* he started calling it Precious and using the Gollum voice and it kinda stuck.
I'd been eyeing it off at JB-Hifi since I got back from Poland. I was going to wait another paycheck before I bought it but they dropped the price by $100 within the space of a week trying to clear out their stock. $697 is a damn good price so I grabbed it. Mum said (when I was talking to her after I bought it) that she was actually going to buy it for me if I didn't have enough money because she knew I was going to need it when I was travelling and it was a good price. I could've just paid he back later.
I <3 my Mum.
Also went to the doctor today. I had to get a few things, asthma meds etc. I also had to see him about my allergies. They've been really, really bad lately. I also have this awful cough that has been with me since I got sick at winter break back in January/Febuary. Doctor put me on a 5 day course of Prednisone (*shudders* steriods wonderful). He reckons that the cough is definately left over from when I was sick but it just hasn't healed. Then I got back here and my allergies fired up and that bloody itchy as all hell rash turned up on my legs and everything's just kinda snowballed from that. This should hopefully clear it all up and give my body a chance to heal.
Thank god it's only for 5 days! I took the first tablet today so I'll be finished it by Monday morning.
I now also have the entire Magnificent Seven series on DVD. I'm not going to go into the dramas I had ordering it through JB (Do NOT order anything from JB-Hifi. Just don't. Trust me on that. They took my order when the DVD wasn't even in the system) but I ordered it Sunday night through Ezy DVD and it arrived today *grins*. I is a happy Sheena.
I also found this amazing Thai/Vietnamese restaurant last week. I was having flashbacks to this dinky little restaurant in Erawan, Thailand while I was eating my lunch there. I haven't had Thai food that good since... well, Thailand!
Right, well, this update's getting long and I still have to write those bloody ISR's so I'd better finish this.
So, overall message in this update: I'm alive *grins*
