I’m gonna deem my favorite student to be the one that asked me how to say “guantes” and once I told her then said “Oh like ‘Hand in glove’!”
She then proceeded to listen to me try to explain my favorite lyrics of the song in bastardized Spanish and promised to listen to it when she got home.
yess.
   

wtf is up with control freak “friends”?
some people have a lot of nerve trying to control your every move especially when it’s business they have no right coming near. 
how do you even respond to that?
“uh, no. stop telling me what to do”?
“sorry but this is my life.”
???????????????????????

fullthrottlelazy:

Tommy decides to feed Joe some weird alcoholic energy drink and some strange things happen as a result. Featuring Sicko, Classics of Love, Antimob and the worst American accent ever.

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Joe needs to work on his accent but “Prince Charles is the boss-hog of England”, and Tommy trying to spell that Greek song title including the “half life symbol” had me in stitches.  The Tommy and Joe banter makes discovering new music even more fun. keep it up, guys!

whenyouliveinbarcelona:

cancelled classes suck even worse when you have to cancel due to pounding headaches, nausea, and cramps. fffffffffffffffff.

There are some serious highs and lows with teaching. Today I had a rough patch featuring a spoiled 12 year old boy literally screaming and crying at his family because he didn’t want to do the lesson with me, while I was in the room waiting to start, AND a TOEFL student displaying signs of being on coke during the lesson.
These might be freak occurances but either way I can’t teach in these kind of conditions for much longer.
I hate myself for not having a clear direction in life (other than desire for shushed faced dogs and decent venues nearby) but I know deep down that there’s nothing inherently wrong with that as long as I can snag something that makes me feel a bit valued and earns me a bit of cash.

Right now I’m low on cash and low on feeling valued.

Well I’m gonna make some pad thai and split a bottle of wine w Andrew and try to end today on an alright note.

despite being pretty burnt out these days, sometimes I get a real teaching high when I can tell my students are enjoying the lesson.  

when a student smiles and cheers about the homework they´ve been assigned, it´s a pretty good feeling.

Yeah, so I didn’t pay that much attention to new music this year.  I moved to Spain and continued teaching English as a Foreign Language despite really wanting to.  I guess I ended up concentrating more on studying spanish and napping in my free time rather than staying up on new stuff.  Not to mention I can’t go to shows on a “regular basis” in Spain.  To help myself feel less out of the loop, here is my list of favorites from what I did manage to stay on top of.  

1. Hot Water Music - Exister

2. Title Fight - Floral Green

3. Cheap Girls - Giant Orange

4. Murder by Death - Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon

5. Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Sea