Today has been a Very Productive Day. My dissertation now stands at roughly 1100 words and I still have many things to say. In fact I may well have too many things to say. Well.. nothing is ever perfect straight away, is it? Anyway I'm starting to feel confident, like I may be able to pull it off without it reading like a load of rubbish. Fingers crossed for continued progress!
On the days I'm not making much progress, or just when I'm having a bad day, I look at this little dude on my bookshelf and it makes me laugh.
My mum brought him back from Greece for me. She said he was to look at when I was having a horrible day, and he really does make me laugh. Who knows why?!
On the subject of farm animals (kind of), I stayed with a family in Italy a couple of years ago. Just for the summer, but the experience was enough to last me a lifetime. I was teaching two small boys to speak English (this isn't the reference I was making to farm animals... although they could be a pair of animals at times) and every once in a while the parents would insist on a trip out... with me tagging along. One day we went on a random - exhausting - three hour walk up the mountain, passing a farm along the way. In an attempt to get the boys to speak English, we played dumb games, like eye spy and, in the case of the photo below, spot-the-odd-one-out.
Yeah, the boys weren't impressed either. Still, it's funny the kind of things you resort to in order to distract two little boys from fighting each other. I have two little brothers myself and I thought that would prepare me for the experience... but no.
Tomorrow morning I have a physical examination to get my health certificate for JET. The only appointment they had was at 8.20am, which isn't exactly ideal for a Saturday morning but I'm glad to just be getting it out the way. I'm also glad to be female so no-one will have to hold my balls as I cough. Just kidding, this isn't exactly the army. I do have to provide a urine sample though, a task I despise! They give you a tube to bring the sample in which is about an inch in diameter. Not very practical for a woman. *Shudder.*
Having said that I probably ought to go to bed so I'm bright-eyed and bushy tailed in the morning - this is a joke for those that know me and are therefore aware that I very often rise but do not shine. So before I go here is another photo for you all. This is the Université Stendhal in Grenoble at around this time last year when all the students and most of the professors went on strike. In order to cause as much disruption as possible they declared le printemps des chaises, robbing all the chairs from every available area in the University and piling them up in the entrance hall. For sixteen weeks. Woo.
On the days I'm not making much progress, or just when I'm having a bad day, I look at this little dude on my bookshelf and it makes me laugh.
My mum brought him back from Greece for me. She said he was to look at when I was having a horrible day, and he really does make me laugh. Who knows why?!
On the subject of farm animals (kind of), I stayed with a family in Italy a couple of years ago. Just for the summer, but the experience was enough to last me a lifetime. I was teaching two small boys to speak English (this isn't the reference I was making to farm animals... although they could be a pair of animals at times) and every once in a while the parents would insist on a trip out... with me tagging along. One day we went on a random - exhausting - three hour walk up the mountain, passing a farm along the way. In an attempt to get the boys to speak English, we played dumb games, like eye spy and, in the case of the photo below, spot-the-odd-one-out.
Yeah, the boys weren't impressed either. Still, it's funny the kind of things you resort to in order to distract two little boys from fighting each other. I have two little brothers myself and I thought that would prepare me for the experience... but no.
Tomorrow morning I have a physical examination to get my health certificate for JET. The only appointment they had was at 8.20am, which isn't exactly ideal for a Saturday morning but I'm glad to just be getting it out the way. I'm also glad to be female so no-one will have to hold my balls as I cough. Just kidding, this isn't exactly the army. I do have to provide a urine sample though, a task I despise! They give you a tube to bring the sample in which is about an inch in diameter. Not very practical for a woman. *Shudder.*
Having said that I probably ought to go to bed so I'm bright-eyed and bushy tailed in the morning - this is a joke for those that know me and are therefore aware that I very often rise but do not shine. So before I go here is another photo for you all. This is the Université Stendhal in Grenoble at around this time last year when all the students and most of the professors went on strike. In order to cause as much disruption as possible they declared le printemps des chaises, robbing all the chairs from every available area in the University and piling them up in the entrance hall. For sixteen weeks. Woo.
