Lauantai 🇫🇮 Szombat 🇭🇺 Saturday 🇬🇧

This Saturday was an uneventfully eventful day, however contradictory it sounds. After waking up and finishing breakfast, one of the masons came to complete the bathroom, which he did by 11:00 a.m. After we handed over the money we owed them, we jumped in the car and drove to buy some bathroom requisites, such as a curtain in the shower and a few towels. Upon returning home at 1:00 p.m., I prepared lunch, devoured it, took Abby for her afternoon walk, grabbed a coffee, and gave Ági a foot massage. Then we went for a 4.5k walk - the weather was beautiful, +24°C with clear skies - after which we both felt like two terribly sick ageing camels.

Anyway, as for my English studies: yesterday night, while Ági was massaging my feet and watching the Tina Turner movie, I did some research on the internet. More precisely, I chatted with Bing. I asked it to check my homework for grammar, syntax, and semantics, provide feedback, and decide whether the piece of writing I submitted was eligible for a CPE essay. It gave me feedback and recommended some online resources that could help me with my CPE preparation, either providing me with useful information or allowing me to do some mock exams, so I checked all those sites this morning and found them exceptionally useful.

Despite being amazed by AI's accuracy and speed, I'm still in a bit of awe and shock while initiating a conversation with AI. It's not the fact that I'm communicating with a machine that scares me rather than the notion of having a meaningful conversation with a pre-programmed piece of technology. But let's not dwell on AI and focus on the day ahead. We'll clean the bathroom tomorrow, put on the new shower curtain, and pop into town for a delicious birthday meal - Ági's birthday 🥳 🎂 🎉 🎁 🎈 🎊 will be on Monday, so a bit of pre-celebration must be done.

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Tiistai 🇫🇮 Þriðjudagur 🇮🇸

My day was alright. I rearranged the shelves in the basement, which took me two hours to complete. I could have spent more time rearranging, but I had to deal with my homework before the class this afternoon. I had to read a story and summarise its content, write about the characters, and describe my impression. Even though the weather forecast predicts warmer days, the presence of autumn is palpable. The nights are much colder than a week ago, and the morning walks with Abby are faster due to the chilly temperature. I quite like the lower temperature and enjoy taking cold showers in the evenings because they refresh my body. However, I miss my summer sandals, shorts, and T-shirts. Walking Abby without having to don my jacket and put on several other layers was much easier. The English class with Charlette was fantastic. The sixty minutes flew by like a bullet train. I feel lucky to learn from her. After the lesson, I prepared my high tea cocoa pancakes. I love pancakes. When I devoure...

Keskiviikko 🇫🇮

We watched the last episode of Bordertown. Now the series is over and won't be available on Netflix anymore. Moreover, they don't plan to shoot another season yet, so chances are we were lucky to have watched the complete three seasons. Anyway, "Vive le Finnish-Hungarian friendship and Uralic languages!" 🇫🇮🇭🇺 After Ági left for the university, I sat down to study. I received four tasks yesterday from Charlette, and I finished the open cloze text and made some notes on the vocabulary part of the lesson. Now ask me anything about "wear out", "hanker for", "wind up", "drop in on", drop in", "cloak", "spectre", "orb", and "mace". Writing a report, explaining the gist of a video to a B1 level student, and writing a letter to an editor of a magazine are left to be completed. When I finished studying, I made some lunch: the menu was pita-bread with Greek yoghurt and veggies - tomato, spr...

Keskiviikko 🇫🇮 Miðvikudagur 🇮🇸

After a not-so-good night's sleep - I had a terrible dream; a lion wanted to chase me down and eat me - I woke up like a log. Little did I know about how chilly the outside temperature was when I took Abby for her morning walk. Both of us hurried back home. It took me two hours to create the lesson plan before my dentist's appointment, but I did it eventually. Since my temporary bridge had fallen off yesterday, I went to the dentist without it. Anyway, I'll have a new bridge next Wednesday if things pan out. I had a lesson with Ági's student this afternoon. I enjoyed the class and hope the students were also content with it. But the afternoon traffic is lethal. On the way home, there were numerous collisions, and I even saw two cars in the ditch. Crazy drivers should stay indoors. The weather is changing. It's still not typical of October, but the first signs of autumn are visible. The foliage is not as fresh green as it used to be during summer, and the nights are ...

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