Wednesday, October 27, 2010

What happened to Autumn?!

We somehow skipped autumn here – well, maybe we got a couple of weeks but it went very quickly from 70 degrees to 50 degrees and it has already snowed in the mountains.  I have already pulled out my winter coats and need to go buy myself some gloves tomorrow!  I can’t wait until the heaters get turned on next week (somehow most of the city must wait for heat until the 1st of November).

Otherwise, I have been good.  School finally started and I have an intermediate class and business classes, along with a bunch of SAT students all madly prepping for their exam next week.  I wish I could take that test again – I would get every Math problem right and most of the English (it’s always a bad thing when you get an answer wrong teaching but it happens – and then you just have to blame it on it being a terrible question, right?)  So I’ve been pretty busy and have worked the past three saturdays – as well as the upcoming one.  But I love the teaching and the other teachers and always I love my students.  Especially my class with 3 15 year-olds and a 33 year-old who seem to have so little in common but always make me laugh.

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Tom and Monique went on a vacation of Paris and Rome the middle of October.  So I took the train down and hung out with them for a couple of days. We visited St. Peter’s and walked to the top of the dome (lots of steps) to see the awesome view of Rome, shopped, took the train to a little villa city on the outskirts and ate great food.  It was great to see both of them!

So that’s about it for me.  We got Halloween decorations (and candy Smile) at work this week and that was great.  I will miss seeing all the kiddies dressed up this year (and the candy pumpkins).  It’s funny how pagan Halloween is viewed here – when for me it’s all about fun and candy..Monday is a holiday (although not for me) – the Day of the Dead where you theoretically go and visit graves and cemeteries (haven’t found a student with plans to do so yet, however). I can’t believe it’s almost November! Where did October go?

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