was out and about in madrid over the weekend and spotted another
crackin' english t-shirt slogan.
it was worn by a woman, who blatantly had no idea that 'kiss me, i'm a
prince' is a funny thing to be worn by a female.
boy, was that funny.
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with the hot weather continuing in madrid, I picked myself up a copy
of the the daily telegraph and headed to the park for a spot of
sun-worshipping.
now, the daily telegraph isn't my favourite of newspapers; i get a
little bored of every story being blamed on immigrants, prostitutes
and labour.
the letters page confirmed my suspicion that daily telegraph readers
really are the winiest bunch of moaning old farts imaginable. water
bans, immigrants, council tax, the home office, the nhs and eurovision
are just some of the topics that are 'sending this country down the
pan.'
were i a telegraph reader, the first thing i would complain about
would be the ridiculous size of the damn thing. turning each page is
like flying a kite. the articles are so far away from your eyes, you
ideally need someone to read them to you. the incredible thing is, if
they made the adverts regular size, it would be a regular sized
newspaper.
personally, i believe cumbersome newspapers to be the root of all
britain's problems.
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it's hot in madrid at the moment.
unseasonally high temperatures of 30ºc+ have made the weekends rather
nice, but being at work miserable and sleeping impossible. my current
sleeping attire includes not very much (steady boys), although even
with the windows open, it's uncomfortable.
add to the equation last night two men who decided to wash the street
outside...at 5:30 in the morning. the madrid street cleaning team
included;
- one (noisy) truck, filled with water
- one (noisy) high pressure hose
- two (noisy) brushes
- one (noisy) man, shouting instructions to the other man (who was
quiet, although made nosiy by his noisy brush)
all in all, i wasn't that impressed.
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one of the great things about living in spain is the fact that it's
fashionable to wear clothes that have english slogans on. after all, a
t shirt says a lot about a person; and what it says about the people
that wear them here, is that they don't speak english.
one kid came to school last week and stood watching the other boys
play football at playtime, obviously a little upset he'd been left
out. in the end, someone came to ask him to play, but i couldn't help
thinking the reason he hadn't been involved from the start was because
his mum had dressed him in a jumper that said 'girl' across the front
of it.
i mean, honestly...
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today, the teachers are on strike.
this means that apart from me and jane, there were two other teachers
at school today (normally there's 20+); neither of them were english
teachers. thirty kids turned up in total (parents had the choice of
whether to bring them to school or not), which left the english
classes to us.
fortunately, english teaching involves colouring in, singing, dancing
and general malarky if your students are 6 or 7.
all meaning that today has been a rather regular day and not quite as
bad as i'd expected.
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i have a new housemate. he is from a baltic country and is a little strange.
'smalltalk' is something he takes very personally and isn't
particularly good at it. i asked him what he did in madrid, he looked
me straight in the eyes (when i say that, i mean he eyeballed my soul)
and said 'i work in security.'
he laughs like a maniac and his eyebrows turn up at the ends. he
thinks very carefully about everything he says, which makes
conversations both awkward and unnecessarily long. plus, he lives
opposite my room.
for the first time since living in that flat, i've been locking my
door when i go to bed...
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