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Yes, yes I did.
Judging from the inundation of emails asking whether I quit or not, I figured I’d better write a quick post to confirm that yes, I did in fact resign yesterday. I only resigned from one school, so will still be working three days a week, and thereby retain (a) my awesome groups and (b) my visa. […]
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On the same page
“When was the last time you helped somebody?”, asked one of the Volunteer Managers for the Sochi Winter Olympics earlier today. I asked him to clarify whether he meant at work, in general, or just on the street, and gave him an example of each. I then railed (railing is kind of my thing nowadays) about […]
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A winter sport
Russians are a rather peculiar and unexpected people. Today in class I had a girl say that she’d been in Latvia for the past few days, but that she didn’t like Latvians. I asked her why, and she said that she found them rude, unsmiling and unfriendly. I said that that was very unlike Russian people […]
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Homeless in St Petersburg? You’re in good company.
Ah, if only I’d posted this BEFORE I moved into an apartment Michael found yesterday morning..! I wanted to quickly mention my adult lesson today. We started the lesson with a fairly lengthy preposition/collocation exercise – for example, finish the sentence “Do you admire any famous people? What are they well-known ____?”. As native English […]
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‘Russia is huge, but it makes no sense.’
Firstly, welcome Autumn: (the photo’s completely untouched, believe it or not!) Secondly, welcome to the over 200 people that read my last post (what?!). A girl I work with is the source of today’s rather brilliant post title. She was driving into the city after work and so gave me a lift. Another moment […]