Fryday

At last... my first week of back-to-work succesfully slogged through. I taught the afternoon session again today, the same Spaniard as before. But this time we did grammar, and it went a lot more quickly this time. He's having trouble with word order when you throw adjectives and adverbs into the mix ("the blue Japanese small car" and the like). It went well. My German morning student is returning to Germany tomorrow, so she'll be out of the picture.

It sounds like we've got a whole new batch of students coming next week. And the week after, we've got a group of thirty or so Filipino students coming (upper-int to advanced level of English), and I get to teach nothing but Creative Writing and Academic Writing for 3 weeks. I'm really looking forward to that. I've got to come up with a syllabus this weekend for that course.

I made the inaugural smoothie in the blender today! Thrilling. A dozen strawberries, 1 banana, a peach, a dozen blueberries, yogurt, and a little OJ. It was delicious, especially after a long day of teaching.

I also worked in the garden for a bit. Finally finished prepping the patch and put in the bean seeds. The remaining carrot and rocket (aka arugula) seeds got mixed together somehow, so I had to just scatter them together, and I'll try to sort it out later, if anything comes from them. I think the carrot spouts will be easy to ID, but I hope I don't weed out all the rocket. I've also got some rocket sprouts in the sprouting tray, as well as a muskmelon (aka cantaloupe), and the peppers might be starting too, but those weren't seeded in sterile soil, so I might be seeing something other than peppers. We shall see.

Just got an email saying that the Japanese girl isn't coming after all. The possibility did motivate me to clean up the spare room a bit, though, so it isn't all bad news. And this way, I'll also have my weekend free instead of having to scrub down the house. Laziness rules.