Looming over me from the grammar shadow in the corner was my first lesson teaching tenses. I was thankful that it was relatively straightforward, explaining the difference between going to and I will. Give ’em an activity, tell ’em what they got wrong, draw a few timelines and other squiggles on the white board, kid on …
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He giveth and he taketh away
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Bitter; adjective. Cynical; adjective. Cupid; noun and bastard.
I’ve just got in from another day of hell learning how to teach English. I have been told a dozen more words and other such terminology I’ve never heard of. I cannot explain tenses. I don’t know what a gerund is. I had to look up the words for this title to see what form …
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S.A.D
Having a series of people cancel their planned visits to see you/Budapest and being told by someone you highly regard that the only reason they liked you was because they were hung up on someone else, all within the space of a couple of days has its draw backs. I also start my TEFL course …
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It’s been a while dear readers…
Alright so it’s definitely been a while hasn’t it? Like nearly a month. Why you ask? Because I’ve been a lazy sod. Also nothing spectacular of note has taken place because for the next couple of months I’m going to be a boring fart. I’m going back to school. Outside of that I will be …
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New Years Eve
Deja Vu. I’m in Budapest for a second New Years Eve, the last one coming back in 2008 with my then girlfriend and a bunch of her mates. Fun times indeed. Booze and arguments I’m usually a firm believer in not retracing steps, seeing as many new things as possible, but this was an opportunity to …
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Goodnight Vienna, good afternoon Budapest
So. Vienna was nice. I had fun. Etc. It’s actually pretty hard to leave, and fairly obvious as to the reasons why, so I won’t insult your intelligence by banging on about how much I wish I could stay a little longer. I figure it best not to have that pressure, and move over a …
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Merry Christmas
So I’ve been updating my face book status with ridiculously cynical and bitter comments. I realise I’ve turned into Scrooge. I’m lying on my bed, alone in a hostel room opening presents vicariously through other people around the world. I’m pleased to see a humourous T-shirt. Someone else had been given tickets to New York. …
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It just isn’t the same anymore
Don’t read this post if you’re of a sourly, depressed disposition, or if you’re so hard-core Christmas you’ve been covered your house with fairy lights and made them flash in-sync with Band Aid. It’s the 23rd of December and I’m lying in a hostel room on my own. I haven’t been Christmas shopping, and I’ve …
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It’s the end of the world as we know it…come back to mine…?
OK so the past couple of weeks have been…unusual. I’ve taken the liberty of leaving out the finer details and omitting some names and places to protect certain individuals who will remain shadowy players in this debauchery. Actually it’s not all that bad really, apart from walking in on friends to see his naked arse …
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Poo shy
Throughout my entire time at Wetherby High School, I never went for one shit in the toilets. Some eight years of a blanket ban on number twos. I was afraid. Totally afraid of someone listening in. I’m pretty sure I was also afraid of contracting something, or even being taken to see ‘the blue fish’ and …
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