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Maanantai 🇫🇮 Mánudagur 🇮🇸

The DIY session continues. After waking up and having a delicious hot dog for breakfast and a much-needed coffee, I grabbed the adhesive tape, cover foil, and spatula and started the morning shift. I had to sand the spackling paste I'd applied to the walls in the kitchen yesterday, but before I buckled down to it, I'd made some precautionary steps by covering the surfaces with the foil. Once I completed the first part of the job, I prepared my next class with my beginner student. It took me an hour to devise a useful lesson, and I got peckish by the end. Before dinner, which was meagre, I applied the pre-painting liquid to the walls. We ate kefir with a Spanish baguette, which was not abundant after a long physical and mental exercise. Anyway, the last sip of espresso made me jump at the opportunity to check if the walls were dry and ready for painting. Fortunately, they were as dry as bone, so I could buckle down to the painting activity with a broad smile. By 4 p.m., the kitchen was ready. I was terribly happy to see the result. The walls are white and smooth, the kitchen worktop dominates one's sight, and the new utensils we bought the other day in IKEA perfectly fit the image.


As pleased as I could have been after another hard day's work, I sat down to have dinner. While I was munching another hot dog, I made a list in my head of the tasks I must complete this week:

  1. Burying the trench tomorrow morning beside the house.
  2. Checking the waste we want to get rid of once again because the electricians mixed the bags while they were working in the basement.
  3. Applying another layer of spackling paste to the walls in the tiny hall.
  4. Buying and painting the wooden slates to the fence.


As for my English studies, apart from checking a few words I've had problems with, I couldn't make significant progress. However, it seems that I'll have three new students soon. Ági has taught them German, and they are nice guys, so I'm looking forward to meeting and teaching them. I'll focus on my introductory class, which will consist of two parts:

  1. Introduction and creating the student sheets.
  2. Assessing their knowledge by asking questions and listening to their replies. I might also prepare three short texts at the A2, B1, and B2 levels to check their understanding. (Before the class, I'll consult with Ági.)


The weather is crazy. We are over the first decade of September, but the temperature resembles July's. The highest temperature today was +34°C. It's not very Septemberish, innit? Anyway, according to the weather forecast, Wednesday will bring a significant change and clear off the late summer.


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