end of january

http://www.flickr.com/photos/88468505@N00/
there. figured id add that link again, for those of you that would like to see. that sight is really annoying and disorganizd, and really difficult to organize, i find, and it takes foreeeeeeeever to load photos. maybe im just not all that internet-inclined and theres some kind of secret i dont know about, but as it stands, i find it frustratingly time-consuming.

so an update on the working life. i think i have discovered the secret! the trick is to make sure that you do something that you think is fun, and then to not care whether or not the students enjoy themselves! the other trick is to realize that its all pretty much a waste of everybodies time,but that that is really ok! i dont know, maybe thats not the secret at all. all i know is that since i got back from christmas ive been preparing the minimum possible, doing as little 'real work' as possible, and ive been having a ball! i think they might actually be learning something, too, which is totally accidental, but totally cool!!!!

anyway, its not all peaches and roses, but its a heck of a lot better than it was at the beginning, thats for sure.

update on other things in life...... hm. we have vacation again soon. the french love their vacations, man, thats for sure. not that im complaining - far from it! Dinan died in January. its was amazing - everythign was closed because everybody (as in, storekeepers) took their yearly vacation. and there arent any tourists this month, so its been an eerily quiet and empty town. what else, what else... thats about it. Im still doing theatre, in fact, we are going to present our play at a festival in April, which is hilarious. tryign to think about what the heck to do next year, adn this summer, actually. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, feel free to pass them on!