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Sunnuntai 🇫🇮 Sunnudagur 🇮🇸

Österreich, wir kommen! 

One more night, and we travel to Austria. Despite waiting for this holiday to celebrate many things - our 25th wedding anniversary, Ági's habilitation, my CELTA certificate, etc. - we have mixed feelings about the whole journey. We do not have mixed feelings about whether we should travel or not. It's more about the fact that we have to take the dog to daycare for six days. I know it might sound silly or overprotective, but the truth is, we love this little rascal dearly and will miss her terribly.

The rearranging project came to an end on my part. Ági was somewhat active today. She selected the must-go items from the kitchen and carried them down to the pile of garbage we wanted to get rid of. Now my office looks like a rubbish collector's living room. I can hardly wait for the day they hauling them to the landfill.

As for my English studies: I asked BING to create five random sentences at the C1 level that I had to rephrase at the C2 level. Although I could deliver some of the sentences at the C2 level, most were still at the C1 level. And it seemed to me that BING was far stricter than chatGPT. I did five rounds with different sentences when my wee mind sounded the alarm. It was high time I stopped the self-inflicted torture at once. 

The weather is improving. The highest temperature was +30°C which meant summer returned. The following week will be equally hot so we will be lucky during our short holiday.

Well, this is it for today, this time tomorrow, I'll write my next entry from the comfort of an Austrian hotel room.
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