today i have been very productive and started doing some pre TEFL course homework - and realised i cannot write in cohesive sentences any longer. it took me around one hour to write one small paragraph, which was neither interesting nor grammatically correct once i looked at it again. and i'm supposed to be teaching english in a month? anyway, felt good that i'd finally started my homework. also of note today i have cycled around 8 miles, to benque, a small town on the way to the belize/guatemala border. shame not on a road bike, but i'll have one again eventually. went through lots of huge puddles and got very muddy. really amazing to have done some (proper) exercise for the first time after leaving england, i had forgotten quite how much i enjoy cycling. we had lunch and saw a parrot and a squirrel and a large chicken, but ate none of them. i have also contacted national geographic to see if they are interested in covering my mexico-patagonia bike ride, here's hoping... and i have also decided to give up on the trashy book i was reading about prostitutes in 18th century london, and start middlesex by jeffrey eugenides instead.
i am well aware that recent blogs have become somewhat uneventful and even, dare i say it, a bit boring for you readers. i do apologise for this. this week is a bit of an (eponymous) calm before the storm of what i am expecting will be a really busy 4 weeks of TEFL course, plus a pretty long bus journey before that to get to guadalajara (around 40 hours or so... any good books to suggest for the journey please do so), so i am trying to enjoy what is left of my free time by relaxing and eating and watching dvds. i'm not eating dvds by the way, that reads quite badly, but i did warn you in paragraph 1 that this had happened.
one thing i will miss when i do finally start working in mexico, is that at the moment whenever anyone asks what do i do, i say 'absolutely nothing actually'. there aren't many times in your life you get to be able to say this. sometimes i don't even offer any further explanation as to why i do nothing, i just walk off.
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I read middlesex. Some bits were slow but persevere.
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That is all. I'm in paris next week, do you think Jim will want me to name drop ds dundee anytime I'm talking to french people who look like they read vogue? I'll do it anyway and invoice the commission later.
Love you and our bathroom.
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Hola - great to see some pics at last! By the way your blogs are still delightfully entertaining, so do not fear. Good luck with the TEFL course - it'll be great. Don't worry about not knowing all the grammar stuff - you'll pick it up quickly.
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