7 Trading Eisenstadt for Vienna

Last Thursday my students performed a show that we’ve been working on for two weeks. It was a big show, and the parents seemed to enjoy it—which is the point. I then got a present off of the school: a big a bottle of wine and a school t-shirt. So far things have gone as…

6 From Bratislava to Eisenstadt by Luck and Tooth-Skin

Bratislava had struck us as a depressive looking place, but we made sure we had a damned good time nonetheless. And we succeeded with ease. Bratislava is fun! And as the night fell it came properly to life: the lights gave the entire city a charm and a beauty that the day time hadn’t afforded…

4 The Late Arrival of Officer Schwarzenegger

Simon, our drunken lost boy, was now well on his way to making a complete arse of himself. He had gotten himself fired by three different people in the same company in one evening by shouting undirected abuse. One of the things I had missed was that apparently he had been physically abusive to our…

3 Our Drunken Lost Boy

We were on our way to make a slightly insensitive joke about our own homunculus in an oddly named place when all of a sudden our boss appears in the lobby and politely (but with some urgency) ushered us away. This was inconvenient, because as we ventured outside we met the rest of our group,…

2 Taking the Hobit to Isengard

Teaching is a lot of fun. I only have two classes, and 6 periods. So I see each class 3 times. I share my classes with another (more experienced) teacher called Emily. I have one quiet and lovely class and another class with personality i.e. they are bug nutty batshit crazy. Also, it’s the Monday…

1 Getting to Austria

I know, I know. TEFL came up again and I dropped right off the WordPress radar. There are reasons for that, like Austria takes priority over keeping my blog up to date (which I assume you understand), but also because TEFL is slightly more mentally consuming than plastering, unemployment, working in a factory or landscape…