quinta-feira, 11 de agosto de 2011
When being broody begs you to broaden your brood.
Im sick nd blogging from bed. It is absolutely the wrong way to have a day off work, needless to say thinking about the backlog is already increasing the dull thud in my face from my blocked sinuses to a banging force. I tried to study a little, given that I am not at work doing my job I thought the least I could do is a little study but my headache says no.
But enough about that. My head hurts and I just can't face a blog about education today I want to talk about pets. As I lye here with my baby beside me, i think to myself pets make even the cruddiest of days just a little bit mofe pleasant!
As those of you who know me already know, I am a mother to Paco, my 5 month Shih Tzu who is the light of my life( sorry Tiago). And after a strange dream where this little munchkin of mine morphed into two animals, himself and a little black cat named Picnic, I cant help but wonder if I am ready to take on a second pet. Coincidentally, whilst Tiago was at Paco's vet clinic on Saturday, there was a cat for adoption who fits Picnic's description exactly.
My immediate thought was, stop what you are doing, throw on a dress and get that cat! It was destiny, fate, a sign from God, that this cas was in YOUR dream, Hayley, it is your responsibility to adopt him. Think of how much less lonely Paco would be while you aren't there...
However there are questions to be raised. Is there room in your house for another animal? How will Tiago feel about having two babies at home? You live on the second floor, how do you avoid the cat from jumping out? And the biggest of all, where will the kitty litter and dinner bowls go?
You see I don't exactly live in an apartment the size of a mansion. I don't live in an apartment the size of small house. So I decided that some research was in order. I went to my biggest research tool(google)and researched two very important facts: Average apartment size Japan and Pets Japan.
I discovered that with land becoming so over valued in Japan, the average person has no way of acheiving the common dream of being a homeowner! So in order to reach their dreams the Japanese are buiding smaller and smaller homes which, they aptly call - Ultra-Small-Homes.
These homes are built for two people and they are built on a piece of land the size of a carparking space ( all be it that it is an American car parking space and they do usually drive big cars...). Now that is a small house, even if they do build two stories. After reading this information I thought that the last thing that the Japanese would want in their car space sized apartments would be a pet, how wrong I was. 52% of the population has a pet in Japan. Pets range from small dogs, cats and turtles to tropical fish, hamsters and surprisingly so-ferrets!
If the Japanese in their car space sized homes can have a dog, then I in my 7 cars space sized home can have a dog and a cat.
Put on your dress Hayley, grab your boots. It is off to the vets we go. Picnic, mummy is coming to get you!
segunda-feira, 1 de agosto de 2011
Get your best dress out, we be going to a ball!
Blog 31 july 2011
Today is my third sister, Rylee Kate's birthday. Happy birthday to you little sister who is not so little anymore.
I am writing today's blog from my couch. Not so extroadinary, interesting or even relevant really. However, as i am supposed to be at dinner with my darling friends at LIV Lounge, and I am not, I thought I had best start with a big hug and a kiss to each of them. I wish I wasn't feeling so ill from the extremely dry climate here. it is amazing to me how each year gets easier and easier to deal with climate wise, yet I still end up getting my big foreign butt kicked for a few days a year by the extremely dry days of winter.
I am at a loss as to what to write about today. So many things have been happening this week, both good and bad but I think I am going to jump the bad and talk about the good.
This week was my second real week ( full week) at my new job. And I was happy to learn about future progress and plans for business and growth, plans for me! Hoorah, I made a great decision by jumping ship and starting again. It is after all, always a risk to change jobs. One loses one's security and confort in knowing what is and is not expected to do. One knows where the good, the bad and the ugly lye and one knows what can and should be expected for the future.
I seemed to have avoided jumping out of the frypan and into the fat this time and my life is suddenly a much more pleasant place to be.
On another high note, business is booming this week, loads of enquiries and trial classes. Not as many sign ups as I would have liked but interest in PoGo means that people are hearing about us from somewhere or another and that does tickle me to the back teeth (makes me happy). So, for those of you spreading the word, liking the Facebook page and following this blog, I would personally like to send you a big hug and a kiss of thanks and ask you to keep doing what you do.
Another great thing was that my darling Cultura Inglesa students had their exams for CAE ( Certificate of Advanced English) this week and although I know everyone did their best, some people acheived outstanding results and then were kind enough to attribute that success to my teaching style and classes. I cannot tell you as a teacher how thrilling it is to be recognised and thanked for your work. I think that it is also important to recognise that the work of a student ( in and out of the classroom) is highly influencial in the level of results obtained in any professional measuremnt of skill level ( test). So thank you and congratulations to each and every one of you who participated in the test and/or the course. It has been a challenge but we have acheived some great results along the way and had a whole lot of fun too!
Finally, I was invited to my very first graduation ceremony in which I received personal thanks for my support on the actual graduation invitation that every guest will receive. I feel very honoured and think that in fairness I came in on the easier part of the course where my support and understanding were of course required by this person but somehow not quite so intensely as those who were being supportive and understanding from the first year onward, andI still get a mention!
Of course the signature end of course ceremony, graduation paper exchange and being in formal receipt of your very own transcripts is a moving event and to be invited to such a grand celebration is quite an honour. We all know that these events always have limited tickets, someone is always left off the invite list and eternally disgruntled, unforgiving. It can be expected that the food will be in abundance that the music will start out classy and develop into a series of similar sounding songs of a sexual nature ( as will the dancing, the hair and the make up all deteriorate by the end of the night) and that many a mother and father will experience that knot of pride well up their stomachs as they see their son or daughter move on to another level of social independence, personal evolution and for some people, they will finally know that feeling of always having something to fall back on or better still, something to jump forward from.
I feel that there is no better example than Brazil of the importance of a good education. We here love to further our personal development and growth until the day we die, not only as a symbol of status and validity of position within the workforce but so as to ensure that the grey matter stays grey indeed and not a mushy-pea or duck egg green colour instead. If there is a saying for " use it or lose it" in Portuguese, i do not know it. However, society here is always so encouraging of furthering your education that I cannot see why it would even be necessary.
So folks, be Brazilian and keep motivating yourself to go on studying, learning and trying new things. Gosh, review old things if it takes your fancy but dont, for the love of Christ stay stagnate! Nothing good can come of that.
Enjoying my education I am, keep enjoying yours
Beijos
Miss Hayley
PoGo Communications
Today is my third sister, Rylee Kate's birthday. Happy birthday to you little sister who is not so little anymore.
I am writing today's blog from my couch. Not so extroadinary, interesting or even relevant really. However, as i am supposed to be at dinner with my darling friends at LIV Lounge, and I am not, I thought I had best start with a big hug and a kiss to each of them. I wish I wasn't feeling so ill from the extremely dry climate here. it is amazing to me how each year gets easier and easier to deal with climate wise, yet I still end up getting my big foreign butt kicked for a few days a year by the extremely dry days of winter.
I am at a loss as to what to write about today. So many things have been happening this week, both good and bad but I think I am going to jump the bad and talk about the good.
This week was my second real week ( full week) at my new job. And I was happy to learn about future progress and plans for business and growth, plans for me! Hoorah, I made a great decision by jumping ship and starting again. It is after all, always a risk to change jobs. One loses one's security and confort in knowing what is and is not expected to do. One knows where the good, the bad and the ugly lye and one knows what can and should be expected for the future.
I seemed to have avoided jumping out of the frypan and into the fat this time and my life is suddenly a much more pleasant place to be.
On another high note, business is booming this week, loads of enquiries and trial classes. Not as many sign ups as I would have liked but interest in PoGo means that people are hearing about us from somewhere or another and that does tickle me to the back teeth (makes me happy). So, for those of you spreading the word, liking the Facebook page and following this blog, I would personally like to send you a big hug and a kiss of thanks and ask you to keep doing what you do.
Another great thing was that my darling Cultura Inglesa students had their exams for CAE ( Certificate of Advanced English) this week and although I know everyone did their best, some people acheived outstanding results and then were kind enough to attribute that success to my teaching style and classes. I cannot tell you as a teacher how thrilling it is to be recognised and thanked for your work. I think that it is also important to recognise that the work of a student ( in and out of the classroom) is highly influencial in the level of results obtained in any professional measuremnt of skill level ( test). So thank you and congratulations to each and every one of you who participated in the test and/or the course. It has been a challenge but we have acheived some great results along the way and had a whole lot of fun too!
Finally, I was invited to my very first graduation ceremony in which I received personal thanks for my support on the actual graduation invitation that every guest will receive. I feel very honoured and think that in fairness I came in on the easier part of the course where my support and understanding were of course required by this person but somehow not quite so intensely as those who were being supportive and understanding from the first year onward, andI still get a mention!
Of course the signature end of course ceremony, graduation paper exchange and being in formal receipt of your very own transcripts is a moving event and to be invited to such a grand celebration is quite an honour. We all know that these events always have limited tickets, someone is always left off the invite list and eternally disgruntled, unforgiving. It can be expected that the food will be in abundance that the music will start out classy and develop into a series of similar sounding songs of a sexual nature ( as will the dancing, the hair and the make up all deteriorate by the end of the night) and that many a mother and father will experience that knot of pride well up their stomachs as they see their son or daughter move on to another level of social independence, personal evolution and for some people, they will finally know that feeling of always having something to fall back on or better still, something to jump forward from.
I feel that there is no better example than Brazil of the importance of a good education. We here love to further our personal development and growth until the day we die, not only as a symbol of status and validity of position within the workforce but so as to ensure that the grey matter stays grey indeed and not a mushy-pea or duck egg green colour instead. If there is a saying for " use it or lose it" in Portuguese, i do not know it. However, society here is always so encouraging of furthering your education that I cannot see why it would even be necessary.
So folks, be Brazilian and keep motivating yourself to go on studying, learning and trying new things. Gosh, review old things if it takes your fancy but dont, for the love of Christ stay stagnate! Nothing good can come of that.
Enjoying my education I am, keep enjoying yours
Beijos
Miss Hayley
PoGo Communications
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