Boys smell bad. And they don’t act the way you want them to. Some of them figure out how to behave by the time they are 16, or 18 or 21. Some of them never figure it out.You might…
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Disclaimer: This is not about my husband 😉It turns out it is true. Your middle-aged husband suddenly starts working out after a decade or two of vegging out on the coach. Your husband, father of your children, suddenly gets…
My Bad Day which started Monday of last week when I bumped a lady (I mean her car) while parking and she about had an aneurysm has now extended to A Bad Week. My name has officially been changed…
This morning my most jaded student ever told me that I looked beautiful. Hmm, my new “Russian Red” lipstick from MAC is really powerful stuff. Then he informed me that he had not done his homework. Coincidence? I think…
No such luck. Actually, I’ve been very busy. I may be one of the few English teachers who has a busy summer season. Summer for ESL teachers in Poland usually equals starvation- school kids are on holiday, business people…
For some reason when I first came to Poland, people liked telling me jokes especially the joke (maybe you know it) with the punch line “piłka…do metalu” (complete with arm motions showing a ball and then a saw). The…
My job isn’t usually very exciting. It’s interesting enough, but not exactly exciting. It’s a lot of -you should use borrow here not lend – or – don’t use will after if in the 1st conditional – and the…
I come from a small town in which an elevator was something hard to come by. I love to go in elevators or lifts if you prefer. When one company where I had lessons built a big beautiful new…
Yesterday evening, I attended the Christmas party of one of my client’s. It will be the only company Christmas party for me this year. Not that I wasn’t invited to any others, but one a year is quite enough.…
Because of my job, I get to meet people I would otherwise not have an opportunity to meet and do things that I would not have an opportunity to do. It’s really great. This Thursday evening I had the…
