Disappointments

Howdeee Folks!

What an odd life I have. I am cut up about an unexpected expectation... quite.
I can't say why but it just affected me and I am shitty about it.

Tell me what you think...

I was told to pick up the new teacher from the train station on Friday (in my time off), which I did eventually and I did well with a warm greeting and carried her bags and took her to her new home and then as she waved goodbye I said, call me at 8pm if you are awake and want to see the city. She didn't call and I expected she would be tired. so I let that go.

It was also agreed to meet up at 12 on saturday so I could take her to a few shops to get her the things she needs and show her the school... no call either. Now I started to get worried because she was 36 hours without sleep and laughed at everything. She understood me alright but I was worried she had freaked out and jumped ship - of course i would be blamed for that.

On Sunday evening I walked to her house and rang her buzzer and no answer, a short chat with the senior teacher and I washed my hands of the situation.

Time check 10pm - my phone rings and it is her asking for directions to the school and what to do, she recounted her weekend and that she had met up with some people and hung out with them all weekend and had a nasty hangover on sunday - all of which I suspect was her excuse not to call me. The nervous giggle that I find far too many armericans have and she tries to charm me. I was having none of that, so I referred her to speak to a co teacher that lives in the building with her and to get instructions on how to walk the 6 blocks to work. (quite an odd path and impossible to describe). I gave her the info - 10am appointment senior teacher and that was it.

Now please tell me, Am I wrong to be a little pissed off? Am I wrong to have already wiped her from the "be nice to these people" list? Well either way I have. she can be other peoples buddies and chums. For a person I was willing to offer the standard coworker friendship to, she now ain't getting it...

Any comments anyone?/ was I right to wrong? Obi

Half Daze Off

Heya Folks and welcome to another exciting.... yadda yadda yadda...

So a half day off has really lifted the pressure off, didnt realise there was that much on, but I have spent the day chatting and fiddling with a spreadsheet for wages and hours and class time tables for the school a side project and I am happy to fiddle and offer a better option than the current catastrophy they current burden us with...

Music is quite cathartic and I have been belting out the tunes and enjoying the sing along. The weather started today miserably and is now quite sunny. Tomorrow is supposed to be over 30 but I really doubt it, I think more 26.

I have to take my Polish care for a German roadworthy and thaaaaat won't be good. On top of that the battery died and I have to get it the 3 km to the mechanic tomorrow. So it will cost all up a few hundred Euros to replace the side mirror and get it up to scratch - that is life...

What else can I tell you about... been thinking about a few freiends dotted around the place and I must congratulate one for the good news - his wife will have a baby in January! Good genes as I said...

I have some friends dotted around the UK too and I send out a hellp to the madn hope all is going well. some i haven't heard from in many a week...

I am tossing up the option of England or Sweden now for a holiday in a month...

Please gimme the pros and cons...

What else? Well I have a lot of unending paperwork and this will never end. So i better get started into it...

Obi

Six Underground

So today was an odd day - the car battery died at IKEA and I was helped by a nice lady to jump my car - but I need a mechanic.
Had a nice day with my friends Marcy and Chris. Had a nice meal and chats with them and then tonight after work a few drinks and a relaax...
lots of class cancellations this week and I am glad for it to be honest - I have worked hard for months now and that is enough of the 6 daze a week crap...
I didn't get anything at IKEA because I wanted free delivery and they don't do it - its complicated...
So tomorrow I will go if my car works and actually buy the furniture...
Here is some music I am listening to tonight... join me...

and this...

feeling sick and beautiful and elegantly wasted - Obi

Saturday night

Hey hey - saturday night is here and I have spent the day teaching and the night stocking my cupboards, fortifying again the poverty of next week!

It is always the case - the week before payday is always poor and I am no exception. I have a beer and some bread and the essentials for life so I am okay.

As Monty Python says - "Always look on the briiiiight side of life..."

So here is the current situation -

1. Problem - over worked - Solution new teacher next Friday!
2. Problem - Exhausted - Solution heading to bed anytime earlier than 10pm. They say an hour before midnight is like 2 after midnight.
3. Money for food, I have worked out a deal with a local student who works in a restaurant and now I can eat there once a day.... tho italian food everyday isn't so fantastic.
4. Problem - No extra moeny - Solution - advertising for students locally and I have some good leads! extra caaaash!
5. Problem - no furniture - solution - lost my IKEA catalogue! haha - not orthodox but stil a solution...

My doctor went on holiday and so no therpay of exrays to see how the treatment is going... then a week passed and the doctor came back and I am now up to date with my stone and it seems only 15% of the stone is shattered so I must continue therapy, Problem is that the Machine at the local hospital is broke nadn ai have no way of checking if or when it will be working again, So next week I ask the school to call for me and I find out when I can go for therpay again. It seems after 2 montsh that only 15% of the stone has been tunred to sand ( the acceptable size to be passed... so - they have some damn fast catching up to do! Still in lots of bend over harsh pain but ya know - pain is now my constant companion and there for - my truest friend right now... how saaaaaaad is that?? Some sunshine would be nice but that will never happen...

My life is hilarious, gimme a sailors cap and call me Gilligan!! - Obi

I am alive

I went to the local college today on invite and I had a ball. The band was good and I met nice students and got to know current students and their boyfirends better, I did well and I realised when was walking home the few kilometres, that this song was pacing though my head...

Maybe you get what I am feeling tonight... maybe not.

My motto for a long time has been thing - or this is a part... I digress ladies and gentlemen...

"We shall be drunk on stars, we shall fear nothing.
Demand the impossible and dream your destiny.
Defy the logic of alphabet. I had slay the king of woe...
and nothing is impossible..."

Obi - grins are grins wherever you find them...

The Summer Is Free

The summer is free and that is about all that is , being robbed by my previous boss for about 1600 Euros I am quite poor. So much so that I am actually going backwards in the first months due to set up costs rather than being able to just breaking even.

On top of all that July is here and a cavalcade of teachers have pissed off on holidays and so I have been dumped with 9 new classes in one week alone. I am working over 40 horus a week and expected to keep up the quality, but being the new guy I have to show that I can carry the load even if that load is heavier than ANYONE should bear. ( and OT is only paid every 6 months! )

Problems with car re-registration and UNI communications in Australia, it is all just tooooo much to manage ladies and gentlemen. I will just have to go day by day and little victory by little victory.

I have kept the weight off from the stint in the hospital but I think that is due to picking the cheap option about eating instead of the right option.

I have an air bed a tiny table and a chair in the place. The fridge is empty as always and I am thinking about breakfast and it is is only 10pm...

It has been nice to hear from friends far and wide and it keeps my chin up. I have said goodbye and closed a few doors recently as well and I am quite okay with that, as my last post says it all...

What else?

I heard gray and gaunt and tears where this years 'new black'... Obi

The end of things...

simple but accurate