Snow falling on Radom

Surprise! Snow has been falling since Friday. Despite the grey, the temperature is quite pleasant, so I'll take snow over rain.

The rest of my teaching week was a success. I came home from classes feeling upbeat and happy, still genuinely loving my job. The dedicated and passionate students, and the laughs make up for all the bad moments. Truly.

It's a lazy day here for me. Last night Heather and I watched Gigi and The Philadelphia Story. Wonderful classics. Well-mannered frivolity, if you will. We successfully ordered pizza (the gal on the other end spoke English!) from a new place, and it was delicious. We'll definitely be ringing them again. Between films we did a petrol station run to grab some snacks, and jokingly we said we should meet THERE for coffee, instead of having to make the thirty minute trek to the centre, as this place is between our flats, less than ten minutes walk. Anyways, we peed our pants laughing about "how the mighty have fallen", how we really were going to meet for coffee at the petrol station - they have seating and everything. You know what we did this afternoon? We met for espresso, and spoke French. Is this what our lives have come to? We sure do miss being able to go to a chain coffee shop...there was a slight chance of hitching a ride to Warsaw this weekend. We wanted to, just so we could sit at Coffee Heaven (it's like a Second Cup chain). Is that sad? That would be like Waterloo having no coffee shops, and taking a trip to Toronto, just to go for coffee. Seriously.

I had a riot with my Wednesday adults. We were practicing "should" and giving advice, so I gave them an Oscar-worthy performance, about how I just met this guy, and that I really liked him. He said he'd call, but he hasn't yet. I just keep waiting and waiting...what should I do? After gathering their advice, I told them I was just pretending. I don't think they believed me. Also, we were talking about making decisions. I asked what they do to help them. One student said he checks his wallet, to which I said, "One beer or five more beers?" The class laughed. I'm so funny.

There were lots of laughs with my Koz power plant men on Friday, as usual. We successfully had a murder mystery as part of the class! I started teaching one-on-one lessons to the secretary in Radom, the one I bus home with/get a ride home with her husband on Thursdays. We have really bonded over time. Anyways, it's fun to teach her. She knows a lot more English than she lets on! Once I got her talking about the book she is currently reading, she had lots to say! It was wonderful.

ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF MY WEEK - as I entered the gym on Wednesday morning, Will Smith's Wild Wild West was playing. I told Maciek (our front desk friend) that I hadn't heard that song FOREVER. He said, "well, there are 17 more tracks on the album!" WILL SMITH WAS THE MUSIC OF CHOICE AT THE GYM. YES.

FYI...I am on British Summer Time here, and therefore do not "spring forward" for another couple weeks. The time difference between us has lessened!