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It's raining again. It wasn't when I wrote that last post when I used the past simple to describe today's rain. Now I need to use the present continuous.

Can you pronounce the title of this post?

Last week at Lines

Well, this is my last week at Lines, in Cold Ash. It's been an eventful 5 and a half weeks, or really, 6 weeks since my actually arrival.

On Saturday I'm heading up to Edinburgh in Scotlandshire for a few days to visit Liz and other people. I've booked my train ticket and I'll be travelling with another teacher heading the same way, so there'll be someone nice to talk to on the 6 and a half hour journey from Thatcham. Britain seems like such a small island, and it's stupid that a journey from here to Edinburgh should take so long, but I've been told that part of the reason is that the tracks in this land are shite. Banjaxed, if you will.

After Scotlandshire I'll head to France but I haven't yet booked my flight mostly due to two problems: one is not knowing when I am going to leave the UK and the other is not knowing where I need to land in France. Actually, come to think of it, I don't exactly know where in Scotshire I'll be when I want to depart these wet shores.

Speaking of wet, it rained today. In England. What a surprise.
More suprisingly, it was actually sunny for a couple of days in a row at the weekend!

Try again

This one should work - there was another setting that I missed relating to timezones and date formats, so finally on track now.

Hopefully this sets things right

I know this is my fifth week in Cold Ash, and I only have another week and a half before I leave this small village*, but I thought I may as well change my settings to show that I'm not in Brisbane anymore, in the hope that the times of my future posts actually reflect the times that I posted them. The last one I wrote was apparently posted at 4:49am, tomorrow, and I can assure you that I didn't write and post it tomorrow.



* It lack a cathedral.

Wow, this is exciting!

I know I've been slack and I haven't posted in a while. I'd promise to remedy this except that I know I probably won't be able to stick to it.

Anyway, the exciting bit is that I've acquired another language to add to the collection:
Mae fy hofrenfrad yn llawn llyswennod.

The usual phrase

Now, I shouldn't have to translate this phrase for most of you, so I'll just mention that it's Turkish:
Hoverkraftim ağzına kadar ilan bilgisi ile dalu.

But, here's the challenge: I'll give you the phrase again in another language, and I want you to guess which language it is;

Għandi id-dingi mimli bil-morini.

ÇEKOSLOVAKYALILASTIRAMADIKLARIMIZDANMISINIZ

Well, I've survived my second week of teaching at Lines. I'm enjoying it here, and I think I'd really like to come back next year too. I've requested staying for the extra 2 weeks, but I'll have to wait and see if it's possible because it depends on the situation here regarding student and teacher numbers etc. Our excursion this week was to the Science Museum in London. It was huge, and I didn't get to see a lot because I was busy herding kids around, but I liked the small bits that I saw. There's a pole with big writing around its base saying "Do Not Touch" and a sign near it explaining its presence as an art installation. The idea is to ignore the "do not touch" bit and touch the middle of the pole so that the pole can give you a slight electric shock and emit a warning sound. It was cool. It doesn't zap each and every time someone touches it, and it seems to be somewhat random. I managed to get zapped a few times.
This coming week's excursion is to Madam Tussaud's. I've never been there, but I think it will be crowded, and there'll be students everywhere.

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Cold Ash

Well, I've been at Downe House for two days now, and most of that time has been taken up with meetings regarding the format, timetable etc of the school. The students will start arriving at the weekend sometime. It seems like a nice place, but it's cold for summer, though it is an English summer, so not really summer in the real sense of the word.

Anyway, off to the pub now.

Also

Happy New Financial Year!

15

I'm now visiting my 15th country. Kat's up to 50.
I'm in Hong Kong and we're about to head out to see the huge Buddha statue on Lantau Island, amoung other things. I've written a few short posts about the places I've been since leaving Brisbane on my Travelpost blog, the link to which you should be able to find on the right-hand side of this webpage, if you are interested in reading it.
I'll do things with photos and more detail later, probably when I'm in England and have more time spare.