BOREDDDD

I am updating this simply because I am ridiculously bored, and have run out of news stories on my most visited sites (BBC.co.uk, MailOnline.co.uk & a couple of celebrity gossip sites.. I only read the Mail because it's funny! I don't see it as serious journalism, honestly..). Anyway, I'm stupidly bored. I'm also quite excited about tomorrow, because tomorrow night I shall be off to Brighton to have the merriest of weekends. Fin said that the food they'd ordered from Asda arrived today- complete with Yorkshire puds- so I'm really looking forward to the dinner. And the drinks (cocktails and whatnot).

I had beans on toast today, on small toast (Swiss bread seems to be very small). The beans weren't very nice. Like everything here, they were ridiculously salty, and the beans themselves were suspiciously large. I bought them in the Spar hoping that they might be at least similar to the Heinz variety but apparently they mess them up especially for the Swiss. Grrr.

Did I mention that I'm ridiculously bored? No? Well, I AM. I did a bit of work on my dissertation & pedagogic report earlier (ie I retyped the basic outline which I will eventually email to my supervisors). Also emailed a woman who seems to be some sort of super Swiss-German expert to ask for her advice on my dissertation. So I think now I'm going to write about the relationship between Swiss German and High German (the normal kind), historical attitudes to Swiss German (everybody hates it, basically) and the influence of other languages on Swiss German (they all say "merci" and "sorry" here instead of "danke" and "es tut mir leid"). There, I summed up 66.6% of my dissertation in one sentence. Glad I can't do that for the pedagogical report, which is going to be on bilingual education (woo). I actually think both topics will be very interesting, it's just going to be a pain getting them off the ground. I think the dissertation is going to be entirely based on reading (so just a standard essay I guess, with the question dreamt up by me) whereas I think the pedagogic report is going to require a bit more independent research on my part- I'll probably have to do some case studies on pupils, some who are taught in bilingual classes and others from monolingual classes. Fascinating stuff I tell ye.

On the plus side I'll probably sleep well tonight as I got out of bed an hour early for no apparent reason. I normally have a lesson on a Wednesday morning with a Maths teacher (he teaches in English, or at least he will be in the new year) so I meet him every week for a bit of conversation practice. Alas today he did not show- don't know if that's because I'm stupid and forgot to write down that he wouldn't be here, but I don't think so. Ah well.

Well, that's the end of that, I think I've used up all my words for today. I think it's almost time to finish off the horrible beans. I think I might treat myself and have them with the bizarre tasting potato wedges I bought yesterday.. oh well, it's almost Brighton time. I am otherwise happy because a) I'm going to Brighton tomorrow b) Jay is coming over at Christmas c) I have a lovely new sequinned skirt d) I'm going to get my eyes tested hopefully on Christmas eve so soon I may even have the gift of sight. I've had to explain to a few classes that if I ignore them in the corridors, it's not because I'm rude but because I can't make out their faces until it's too late, and walking about the place squinting is not a good look.

The End.