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Keskiviikko 🇫🇮 Miðvikudagur 🇮🇸

Needless to say, how my night was; therefore, it is much easier to focus on what during the wake hours happened. 

After finishing the delicious breakfast and gulping the much-needed coffee, I went to study. Today I asked ChatGPT to assist me in error correction. It gave me five random sentences containing various mistakes at the B1, B2, and C1 levels each and waited for my input. It then checked the sentences I failed to correct and explained what went wrong and what I should have to rectify. It went well, and I was pleased with myself, for I spotted every error ChatGPT hid in the sentences.

Today I was responsible for lunch, so I prepared a delicious spaghetti with tuna. While devouring the nosh, we watched another episode of Doctor House, which we enjoyed.

When I drank another coffee, it dawned on me that I had to prepare for the Saturday class lesson, so as soon as the last sip of coffee found its way into my system, I grabbed the book and started planning the lesson.
It's still challenging to come up with an engaging lesson plan that motivates students; in our case, it's Ági and Roya. Anyway, I hope they'll like my class.

So, not much has happened since I finished the lesson plan. The weather is perfect, not too hot, but not cold either, and the gentle breeze coming from the North makes it even better. According to the weather forecast, the next two days will be much warmer, but the weekend brings shite weather. Colder temperatures and a lot of rain will make us gloomy.

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