Realisations from an academic year in Portugal
- Teaching teenagers is a euphorism for babysitting
- Somewhat suprised to tell students that Cambridge school Portugal is not global, despite their lofty assumptions
- Officially a loser to be in on a Thursday night, writing boring tefl related shizzle at 1am
- Cambridge is not the only employer in the world, despite what they tell us
- Portuguese people are on the whole an insular, narrow-minded, sometimes rascist and anti semitic, tanned people that are pleased by football and soaps.
- English people are prone to pudgeon holing and stereotyping (eu tembem)
- Impatient thoughts on leisure time and success are unhealthly distractions
- Being happy consists of colourful lizards, natural fruit and veg, 99 year old neighbours and bboying in a bedroom.
- Audiobooks are king
- Downloading everything(half decent) under the sun is not a means to an end
- Morning is the best time of day (took me 25 years!)
- Getting up early is the only way to be fit, healthy and productive
- The Portuguese have a right to complain about everything. Their wages are SHIT, and everything costs LOADS (My laptop. Price in UK: 390 GBP, here: 590EUROS)
- Writing these things is not only therapeutic, it also fills the void.
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