Beautiful sunset this evening. I Took these pictures on my webcam with the tripod hanging out of my bedroom window- though I almost lost it in a freak gust of wind, hope it was worth it. Judging by the quality of the pictures probably not!

Anyway been a pretty lazy day, done nothing except clean and surf the web.

My apartment is starting to become a bit of a problem. It’s difficult to keep clean! Partly due to it’s size but mostly because it gets really dusty so fast. It takes about 2 days, and my apartment needs cleaning again. However, the dust here is regular dust coloured not the black filth that was so bad about my old place.
My toilet has just blocked up again, and I have no plunger. I’ll Just have to resort to the rag on the end of a stick technique, then hope it works like a plunger – it did last time! That reminds me of (one of the many) times that our toilet blocked up at uni. I remember one time, the bowl filling-up with something totally disgusting when I flushed it. I panicked, it was going to overflow. So I looked around and instinctively grabbed the first thing I could use to dispense the water elsewhere. I grabbed a pint glass left in the bath (only in a student house), bravely scooped into the bowl and in one smooth action launched the glass (and its contents) out of the adjacent window. It was on the ground floor, and the glass ended up next to the road-signs and traffic cones in the garden.

Anyway, no work today or for the next week – It’s the national holiday!! I’m well chuffed to be having a break. Okay I may only work 24hours a week, and have 3 month holidays. Yet teaching and trying to study a foreign language is exhausting. I go to bed at 10 each evening because I have no energy to do anything else, and if I stayed-up later I would not be able to wake up at 6.30.
Tomorrow my landlord will come around and I’ll give him his rent. He’s been very accommodating in letting me pay one month later than I said I would. (Because of our boss paying us late) Maybe I’ll also get around to getting this website finished!! I’ve uploaded more pictures in the photo gallery; I will have my webcam working very soon…

David