Monday, January 09, 2006
Hola
ok, ok...much too long for a new post. I'll get my holiday blogs up this weekend. I know. I'm lazy. I suck. As most of you know, I'm back in Scotland from a holiday in Spain and started work today.
I spent the last few days of freedom being lazy and trying to get a bit of work done. I succeeded at both. We didn't have a TV in the flat, which was quite nice. I wasn't distracted by crappy reality shows, Coronation Street or very bad late-night movies. Instead, I became addicted to Radio 6. Holy crap, I love this station. It's only online or digitial radio and plays such an amazing variety of music. If any of you are looking to listen to some good/different music than the CanCom crud (most of it, anyway) that Canadians are subjected to on major stations, give this a try. It has all the BBC sessions (including all the John Peel sessions) and they archive everything for at least a week and you can listen to any show anytime....too much music, too little time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music
Other than that, I didn't do too much. I met up with Ian for a few pints on Saturday night. While walking back, I bumped into a student who lived next to my flat. After an exchange of "hi" the student replies: "Don't get too drunk tonight". Who says that to their teacher?! I wasn't visibly drunk and didn't stink of alcohol. I don't think that I would say that to one of my teachers...damn cheeky kids.
My disappointment of the failure of "The Great Moustache Competition" between myself and three other staff members was somewhat lessened this morning due to a pleasant surprise from Chris the Jani. A package sent by my parents in November somehow landed in my landlord's brother's wife's hands for the past month. She works in the school canteen and brought it to me today. I am convinced that I would get my mail if it were addressed to Canadian teacher, Grantown-on-Spey. Gotta love small town postal service!
Nothing out of the ordinary today.
I spent the last few days of freedom being lazy and trying to get a bit of work done. I succeeded at both. We didn't have a TV in the flat, which was quite nice. I wasn't distracted by crappy reality shows, Coronation Street or very bad late-night movies. Instead, I became addicted to Radio 6. Holy crap, I love this station. It's only online or digitial radio and plays such an amazing variety of music. If any of you are looking to listen to some good/different music than the CanCom crud (most of it, anyway) that Canadians are subjected to on major stations, give this a try. It has all the BBC sessions (including all the John Peel sessions) and they archive everything for at least a week and you can listen to any show anytime....too much music, too little time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music
Other than that, I didn't do too much. I met up with Ian for a few pints on Saturday night. While walking back, I bumped into a student who lived next to my flat. After an exchange of "hi" the student replies: "Don't get too drunk tonight". Who says that to their teacher?! I wasn't visibly drunk and didn't stink of alcohol. I don't think that I would say that to one of my teachers...damn cheeky kids.
My disappointment of the failure of "The Great Moustache Competition" between myself and three other staff members was somewhat lessened this morning due to a pleasant surprise from Chris the Jani. A package sent by my parents in November somehow landed in my landlord's brother's wife's hands for the past month. She works in the school canteen and brought it to me today. I am convinced that I would get my mail if it were addressed to Canadian teacher, Grantown-on-Spey. Gotta love small town postal service!
Nothing out of the ordinary today.
// posted by Mr. Muir @ 8:12 p.m. 
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i considered addressing your card somewhat to that effect but then you came through with your address on time. maybe i'll try it out as an experiment though! :)
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