Saturday, May 19, 2007

13%...

Is the percentage of body mass that I have lost since my highest body mass, in January 2005. It's taking a hell of a long time, but I'm noticing that my body is losing the weight in about the same amount of time it took to put it on... Logical, isn't it?

rewarding

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Ukrainians crack me up!

Last night we had the Eurovision Song Contest, and normally countries choose serious artists singing heart breaking love songs... Ukraine chose... well, just look at it, I found it hilarious!

News from Berlin

Well, the semester is in its fourth week now, and this week I alreday had to give a 90 minute presentation on grammatical categories regarding universal grammar and syntax. I'll be starting to write my paper on the same subject this week, although I am expected to give it in before the end of september. Why put off to tomorrow what you can do today? Uh, yeah, I'm working on that...

Other than that, I'm working real hard on my job at the university as a french teacher. I've given two classes, and the first one went really well, two students actually came up to thank me at the end of class, but the second one I had a larger group and it was a lot more difficult to keep tem interested, concentrated and active...

I am also somehow managing to fit in 4 private clients in my schedule. (Most of whom I teach out of my home). So I'm getting tons of experience. My youngest pupil is 8 years old and my oldest around 31. So I get to try out teaching with a very wide range of groups, from private lessons to university class, from kids to (older than me) adults. It's really a great experience and even the "bad" ones turn out to be valuable.

I think I'm going to be a good teacher. Of course, sometimes I get afraid and worry if I'll ever make it, but in my gut, I have this feeling telling me I'm good at it, that I can do this, and do it well.

On another subject, I keep having these ups and downs concerning homesickness. I must admit though that being home for the holidays in December has helped me a lot because it made me realise that the life I was missing, my old life on the Montreal Plateau, just doesn't exist anymore. The people still do, the city still does, but my life in its particular constellation is gone. My home is in Berlin now.

I don't know why I needed to go so far away...