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Hi everyone,

Just a quick post to say that I read every single item of feedback I receive, and that I even have the time and the “oportunity” to answer a 60% more less and take a look at some friends’ blogs. But those of you who haven’t received an answer yet, please be patient!

Anyway, I’d also like to announce that I am willing to give my mobile telephone number to those of you who want to keep in touch with me with sms and lost calls (I love them: it’s the best way I know if you want to say “hey, nothing really exciting to say, but I remember you” and it’s free! :D). Take for sure that if you are Ajda, Frauke, Iva or Thilo (Patán already has it ;)) I will give the number to you. In some other cases I might refuse to give it out, but I’ll be nice anyway

So, this is all so far.
Hope to make some interesting updates soon!

Czesc everyone from Poland!

(Thanks Patán & Frauke for your comments, I’ve answered them =))

First of all, I must warn you that my access to the Internet might be less frequent than before, because when I am in the center of town -where the cybercafés are- I must work, and when I am at home, the conection is (ahem) a bit crappy…
But J., the girl I’m leaving with is having it fixed and in exchange for letting me use her conection, I will upate her computer installing, for example, Windows 98 (she has Windows 95) and Internet Explorer 6 (she has version 4 xp), and some other programs such an ANTIVIRUS.
Anyway, I’m afraid that won’t be until October, so if you are longing for updates I might dissappoint you :tongue:.

So, I’m already in Lódz and “oficially” a teacher of Spanish for foreigners since yesterday.

The girl I’m living with is one of my “bosses” but we’ve known each other since 1999 and we get on with well so I’m fine with her.
The other people at the academy is nice too, so I’m pretty happy with everything. I even gave my first lessons: it was to a very friendly group of intermediate level and everything went well.

The truth is that I was rather tired due to the journey from Madrid by plain -in which there was a drunk person, by the way :P- and then from Warsaw to Lódz by car. But I was so excited that I didn’t mind being so tired at all.

The lessons I will give during September are to prepare special Spanish examinations. The regular lessons begin in October, but I don’t know how much groups and pupils I will have yet.
But we are already preparing a sort of “open house” thing to be held the 12th of October, which is the Spanish National Day (the day in which Christopher Columbus “discovered” America), so it will be the “Spanish Day at Akcent Academy” :geeked:.

You are all invited, by the way ;). If you want to know a bit more about the academy I’m working at, you just have to take a look at their website (everything’s in Polish, though :P).

Oh, and I’ve already tried to keep a social life in Polish :geeked:. For an Spaniard, certain common sounds are really difficult to pronounce, but I already understand a lot of things thanks to the Russian lessons I took up several years ago (although Polish people HATE to have anything to do with Russians) and my other stayings in Poland. Oh, and thanks to what J.’s mother mother called my “linguistic intelligence” (in Polish).

I’m feeling pretty well here so far. But of course, I miss a lot of people and certain dog…
Anyway, there are no distances nowadays. Mobile phones and the Internet must be in the Hall of Fame of inventions.
Gotta go, I must take care of Figa, J.’s family dog :). She (Figa) likes me :D. And I also have to prepare tomorrow’s lesson
Do zobaczenia! (See you!)

Hi,
I would like to tell you all a couple of “funny” anecdotes that happened these past few days to me, such as the hold-up I managed to overcome, the asembly of Os Trazantes in which I announced that I wouldn’t be in Spain for the next season, the meeting with some of my mates and another episode of my Dawson-Creekish so-called sentimental life…

But I can’t right now: my flight to Madrid is tomorrow after the last “ceremony” for my thesis (yeah, they passed me, not a good mark though, but I already knew that: I didn’t correct the stuff I should polish up, I was too fed up with that thesis to bother) and the flight to Warsaw is the day after. So I must go and do the loads of things I still have to do.

I guess that my next post will be from Lódz ;).

Take care, have fun….
Thanks Sarah for your comments.
Gracias Patán por el regalito :lub: y saludos a ShAbBy que seguro que anda por ahí =).
Ciao!

[EDIT 12th September] Specially busy / inspired. Not updating, but up to something (Nothing particularly grant, though) [/EDIT]

Last Friday I was going to write about the Osetia don’t-know-how-to-name-it, when even the most critical journalists were being rather optimistic about the rescue operation (at least, the Spanish journalists whom I was listening to) while it was evident that a masacre was happening in that school.

But instead of coming here and try to post something intellectually exciting about it, I just began to cry over my stupid problems because they make me feel stupid for taking me so much time when I should be thinking about helping remove the excess of shit there’s on Earth.

(And shit is not only on “the other’s” side).

And then I feel even more stupid for crying over my stupidity.

I never use strong words for the sake of it, but shit happens, and today I’m too screwed up to avoid using the word shit, mierda, merde, merda, cacat, Scheiße everywhere.

Because shit happens, and sometimes there’s not too much difference between dying of starvation while you are optimistic and hoping for food, and dying of starvation being totally aware that you will never get food.

Optimism requires a great mental effort, and now I feel stupid enough to prefer waiting for more shit to happen without even bothering to believe I could have the slightiest power to avoid it.
Being aware that sometimes I did thought that it was in my hand to do so makes me feel really, really, I mean really, stupid.

No, no great changes in my Earthly life; what it is more: everything seems to be going smoothly (until it turns into shit, because that happens too often in my very own stupid easy life as well)…

I’ll tell you more when this rush of hormonal paranoia has finished.
And that is the worst of all: the fact that my worryings about world stability might be only the product of a temporary bioquimical effect.

Bloody planet. I’m going hunting.

Take care, have fun.
See you soon in a (I hope) less pathetic environment.

I have to break my promise (ahem!) of having the audio files uploaded by Sunday (you are not missing anything, really), but I’m really busy (great! I managed to spell this right =)) these days (yep, busy “again”): I have to “defend” my creature (my %$%&# thesis, yep :P), leave Os Trazantes with all counts and stuff well done and take a plain towards my future life in Poland in less than 10 days… Oh, I also have to declare JK (no, it’s not “that” JK) my love for him (gosh! How could I make him believe me :tongue:?) and try to convince him that it’s ours the ones who can determine how long a distance is… Incidentally, my beloved Q. got a girlfriend himself too up there, in Norway… I’m glad for him, but I’m not that hypocrite as to say that I do not have a strange feeling inside each time I think about it…

Whatever.

Incidentally, I forgot (Setsuka, perdona porfa :mrgreen:) to mention that Setsuka has been a hostee here for a while too, but I’m only hosting a MySQL database and a few files for her fanlistings. It’s a real pleasure for me to host her too, bien sûr :D.

So, I’d better be going and sorting things out…
Do zobaczenia!