Today I've taught three online classes. Charming, intelligent people. I've tried to help them as best they can with the present perfect, intensifier adjectives, how to use and identify the value of articles. Frieder told me his opinion about the forthcoming Hungarian elections and what many Germans feel about Victor Orban and what should be dine about his flagrantly criminal approach and attitude,
Now my lessons are over and I'm listening to an album in my boxes of records which compose almost entirely the ground floor of my mezzanine basement flat. They overflow wherever you look and now it seems I have little to do for the rest of my life but to listen to as many of them as I possibly can as often as I can.
Today is the 60th Birthday of a beautiful, impossibly petite Belgian princess who I worked with in Dortmund at a language school in the early 90's . I still have my diaries of these days and they act as a reminder to me of carefree youth and why I went into teaching in the first place and focused on teaching abroad and experiencing and embracing life to the greatest degree. I did the right thing !
I'm back now focusing on the teaching I did then and it feels like my life has come full circle. I work from my flat and love what I do. No meetings. Very little paperwork. Students who frankly I learn from more than I'm obliged to teach. It doesn't feel like work .Am I early retired at 60?
Klaus Wunderlich us as cheesy as it gets. Easy Listening Hammond Organ takes on Spoon Full of Sugar, I Was Kaiser Bill's Barman et al. ,What more could you or anyone want. It reminds me of one of the best friends of my lifetime who I also met and spent a lot of time in Dortmund with.
I still miss Matt and cried a great deal when he departed early and painfully about ten years back. I used to have his photo on my desk and would come back from the bar on any number of occasions in my cups and sob my eyes out. I've put his photo un my drawer.. He wouldn't have wanted me to get upset. But to live my life to the full just as he did. And probably play Klaus Wunderlich occasionally.
I realised when I got onto the third side of this that I'm probably just happy. Never a bad idea
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