My work as an examiner for Cambridge starts this week, on top of my normal teaching schedule.
In July I will be escaping the oppressive heat here. I have accepted a job as senior residential teacher in Oxford. Hard work as Sommer will attest to!
Teenagers will arrive at my school from all over the world and there will be fun, tears and tantrums. As a senior I will be a kind of house mistress, as well as teacher. Making sure they are in their bedrooms by 11.00, dragging them out of bed for their morning class Generally keeping them safe and sound.
What I´m trying to say is that I won´t have time to chat to you lot, so this weekend I´m going to disappear until September. I usually do this anyway.
I´ll miss you all. Be good. See you soon, blah blah blah.
I´m happy with the way I look too, and I take care of my skin by staying out of the sun etc etc.
My mum looks 10 years younger than her 70 years, so I have inherited good genes too. I am lucky.
I was thinking about it because Spanish ladies of a certain age are quite open about their little adjustments, be it botox or other kinds of temporary fillers. You see the most luscious lips, and smooth faces on the over 50´s walking around my city! It looks a bit odd though I have to say.
I have to have an expressive face in the classroom, especially when I´m teaching phonetics...you know, position of tongue, etc!
I always gave a cigarette when I smoked, regardless.
Now I know who is genuine in my small city. I can´t give regularly to the genuine beggars, much as I would like to, but I do when I can.
There is a man begging daily in front of the school where I work. I know he is genuine. I give him something once a week, not much, but something. When I walk past and don´t give anything he smiles and says hello.
I do, and I have posted a few, not many, and not recently.
Some are not very interesting, like the threads we read, but some are so illuminating.
In my opinion, the blogs are a better way way of getting to know somebody.
When I worked in Russia last year I didn´t log into CS at all, and I didn´t miss it. I created a blog, a diary, initially for my students, but it turned into a much bigger thing.
Ex-pats working in Russia contacted me, and I made friends. Those people contacted me because they empathised with my thoughts and the problems of living in Russia as a foreigner, not because they liked my profile pic.
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I knew you´d say something like that!
RE: Has masculinity been overshadowed by malefemininity ?.....
Not at all. I love men who can show their feminine side and rejoice in it.