Yesterday I had a couple moments of ‘this is so absurd I can do nothing but laugh.’ The first was while visiting Carrefour, the French version of Walmart. I walked into the electronics department where they sold digital video recorders because I wanted a tripod. There were three sales associates standing together [...]
Yesterday was Father’s Day; last Friday one of my brother’s got married (finally). The latter one puts me in a precarious position as I have repeatedly told people at my uni (students and teachers alike) that I can’t get married until my older brother is married. He always said he was never going [...]
It’s getting to be the home stretch here and I’m having mixed feelings about leaving. I returned from Kuala Lumpur and was notified by one of the student staff at the teacher center that a book may be missing. I had them do a full inventory and we found eight books missing. [...]
I nearly went bonkers this week. We ran six days of workshop with two different groups. I did the last three days myself. That’s about 7 hours a day on my feet. Of course, I wasn’t mumbling along the whole time as that would have been pedagogically unsound. Besides, I [...]
I’m still nose-deep in the pie of life here. Work is still at my fingertips as I write this. The last week has been a bit of folly. One workshop suffered a three-hour loss of electricity and caused the classrooms to be nothing short of a sauna in only tens of minutes. [...]