After a long time out of internet contact, I'm back. The past couple of weeks have been fairly full of work, marking, lesson-planning and rushing from place to place, so the blog has finished in a poor last place. On the other hand, my English is improving a lot now, on account of being forced to speak grammatically, slowly, and without any slang. My Polish is improving too, so maybe by the end of the year I'll be able to speak both languages properly.

The schedule of work is rather odd, as I normally start work at the private school at about 16.30, and continue until some time before 21.30, which seems to be the wrong way around. It's odd having the mornings off, as you have a vague feeling you should be working, followed by a hectic and exhausting evening of work. I also teach at two more schools now, which means that I am amassing hours (and hopefully, eventually money, if not free-time). Still, it hardly compares to how hard some of the Poles at the schools work. Some of them must be the hardest-working people I've ever met, and I'm really glad I don't have their schedules. Similarly, the Polish schoolchildren seem to have a day based around waking up at 6am, working until mid-afternoon, going home to do homework, going to private school in the evening, and then sleeping ready to start all over again at 6am the next day. It makes me very glad that I'm only teaching at Polish schools, rather than studying at them.