Bonjour mes amis! (Hello my friends!) We have returned from the last 6 days of our European adventure. We arrived in Paris on Saturday December 30th later than expected because our flight was delayed. Our first business, as usual, was to find our hotel. This hotel was certainly no Swissôtel like in Zürich! Since it was the holidays, rooms in Paris were quite pricy. So we booked a room at a more affordable hotel located just outside central Paris. Let’s just say we got what we paid for! We learned to make no assumptions about what we think a hotel typically [View Full Entry]

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Hello! We have just finished visiting the second of three countries that we planned for our trip: Switzerland! We arrived in Zürich on Wednesday, 26 December. Our first task, as usual, was to find our hotel. There was a courtesy shuttle at the airport to take us to the Swissôtel in central Zürich. The hotel has 32 floors. Our room was located on the 24th floor and gave us an amazing view of the city. On the 32nd floor is the fitness and wellness centre. There is a pool, whirlpool, fitness centre, massage parlour (for an extra fee) and a mixed [View Full Entry]

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**NOTE**- You can click on any picture to see an enlarged version. Not all of our pictures fit on this single blog page. To see all of the pictures, make sure you go through each page (the pages will be listed at the bottom of the entry). Alternatively, you can click on one picture and then you will be able to scroll through the rest.** Willkommen! (Welcome) We just finished our four day visit to Berlin, Germany. We arrived in Zurich, Switzerland yesterday and we will be here for four days. When we arrived in Berlin, we found our way to [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday was our lucky day! Before the school day started we had a staff briefing in the staff room. All of the staff who have not had a day off since the beginning of the school year were entered into a draw. Both of us were among the names entered and the prize for the draw was a day off! (with pay, of course). Will's name was drawn! So in the new year, Will gets to arrange a day where he can stay home and have his classes covered. But, that wasn't the only luck we encountered during the day! Last [View Full Entry]

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What a busy week it has been! Despite the chaos at work of having to mark exam papers and submit student grades by Friday, our week turned out wonderfully. Today is our one year anniversary! We celebrated our anniversary yesterday by spending the day in London. When we arrived in London we ventured to Leicester Square, which is a pedstrianised square in the west end of London. The square is lined with shops, cafes, restaurants and theatres. Something weird must have been happening on the weekend because there were at least a couple hundred people dressed up in santa suits! We [View Full Entry]

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The last couple of weeks have been fairly uneventful. Work has been going well, despite the fact that the kids are pretty wired because Christmas holidays are only 2 weeks away. This coming week is going to be insane. All of our year 7 - 9 classes have Maths progress tests, which means that we'll be spending romantic evenings marking test papers. All of the papers have to be marked and grades entered by Friday. On a lighter note, we have our staff Christmas party during the last week of school. It's a dinner and dance being held at a hotel [View Full Entry]

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We're completely knackered! That's about all we can say! For some reason this past week has been incredibly busy. We had a hell of a start to our week on Monday. We went to catch the 7:30 am bus, but it never showed up! We ended up having to take a taxi to work when we realized the bus wasn't coming and we'd be late if we didn't do otherwise. We later found out that our bus had broken down on its way back from its previous run. On Wednesday night we were at the school by 7 am and then [View Full Entry]

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It's been a couple of weeks since we last put up a post. We hope everyone enjoyed all of the pictures we put up of our trip to Spain! The past fortnight has been quite busy. Work, as usual, is busy with constant marking and lesson planning. But, those are the joys of the profession! Students are quite fascinated that Miss Paola and Mr. Truong are dating. We often get questions like "Sir, are you and Miss Paola married?...Are you going to get married?" "Miss, do you and Mr. Truong have kids?" It certainly starts some interesting classroom conversation, which sometimes [View Full Entry]

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Hola! As many of you know, we returned last weekend from a 5 day trip to Spain. The first week back to work after the break has been quite hectic so that's why it has taken so long to put up our pictures! Thursday was a LONG yet pretty good day of parent-teacher interviews from 11 am - 8 pm. We were completely knackered by the time we got home! Anyway, let's move on with sharing our adventure to Spain with you! We spent most of our week in Barcelona, but our hotel was about 50 km outside of Barcelona in [View Full Entry]

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Today was a fun day! We spent the afternoon at a fair in Buckingham with our house mates and another friend, Melissa. We left Aylesbury at 2:30 pm and spent a few hours at the fair. We haven't been to a fair in ages! It was fun just walking around, going on rides, eating bad-for-you foods and playing games. There are a few standard rules when you go to a fair: go on rides that make you feel sick, play games where you get ripped off by carnies and buy cotton candy! Will, Melissa, Ebony and Damien went on this crazy [View Full Entry]

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