Hols

I’m more or less on my hols at the moment, well it’s not really a hooliday just a break between the two semesters. During this time I’ve been trying to rest my leg and also watching a lot of movies too   We love watching movies, it’s a shame that there isn’t a cinema near to our city. There was one but it was closed quite a while back from lack of customers. All the movies were really old too, they appeared only months after everywhere else. Movies usually shown here are big blockbusters and for small cinemas like the one that existed here probably don’t have the money to get them as soon as they are released. I watched Hulk2 the other night, it’s not too bad. I don’t really see why people were whining about it. The story is about a guy who turns green and has superhuman  strength when he gets angry, what do they expect from the film? hahahaha!! I watched Pathology last night, an excellent movie and not so grusome as say the Saw movies. We liked it a lot. My next movies I really want to see is The dark knight, I’ll have to go to Brasilia to see it though, not sure when that will be.

I’ve been having a few problems with the owner of the other school I work in. He’s supposed to have been coming to the school here for the last couple of weeks but always we get fobbed off with some weak excuse. Roberta and I really don’t have the time or patience to keep calling him all of the time to chase after him. My patience is running out very quickly now, I would have thought that with him being the main franchiser he would be more interested in getting the school up and running. He needs to solve this soon, we are quickly becoming tired of this

Conversation class

I work at two English schools and one of my students has class only on his own with either myself or Roberta. He learned English more or less by himself and mainly our classes consist of conversation classes, one with me and one with my wife. Today he asked if he could give me some texts and if I could record them onto a cd so that he could listen to my voice as he reads along with the text. I like this idea a lot, I’d already toyed with the idea and after the Easter hols I’ll get him to print the texts for me. I already have the program to record the mp3s so I can convert them to an audio cd with Nero. I’m going to use Audacity for this, it’s free and very easy to use. I had a few problems finding how to record in Odeo but a friend of ours uses it a lot and gave me a few pointers. I’ll try both online and with the audio cd too, just because I’d like to try the Web 2.0 side of it as well I have a book of texts and short stories that I’ll record and upload and then use a WordPress site to host them for my students to use. I think it’ll be a lot of fun experimenting with this Although I’m British I speak both British and American English with an accent that seems to float somewhere between the two of them, my students tell me that its easier to understand me sometimes than the Models hahaha!! I’m not sure what my voice sounds like recorded, this should be good for a laugh