My Life after CELTA

The roof is ready, and it looks fantastic. The roof guys came early in the morning and finished by 1 p.m. We took the construction waste to the scrapyard, and the guys packed their gear and left with a hefty sum in their pockets, which was well deserved. They did a fantastic job. As for my studies: I completed some tests today and asked chatGPT to create open and multiple cloze text and check my answers. It is frightening how AI handle such requests. It only took three seconds to make them and another two seconds to check my answers. The weather was unbelievably good today. It was sunny with no clouds and only mild wind from the East. The next few days will be different as they'll bring a lot of rain and wind.

Winter is around the corner. Again. It's irritating that the cold weather is still with us after a long grey winter. We didn't see the Sun today, and the temperatures dropped significantly. And to top it off, it was snowing, covering the Eastern countryside with 10cm thick fresh snow. The next four days will bring more rain, so we are unhappy. As for my English studies: I was exceptionally productive today. I did a lot of tests with fairly good results. Half of the mistakes I made were irritating - I attributed them to the lack of attention - and the other half - mainly phrasal verb-related ones - because I needed to be 100% sure of the meaning. And the scariest part of my learning today was my chat with chatGPT. The way and speed with which AI can explain even the most complicated grammatical rules and structures are simply baffling. I was shocked to see how easily it could come up with an explanation, and how it interacts with humans is scary. But it was a great experience an...

I got a sad message today on Facebook. One of my classmates from high school suddenly passed away a month ago. He was only 51, and there were no signs of his death. I know we are not young anymore, as 35 years have passed since graduation, but isn't it a bit too early to kick the bucket?  Rest in peace Gyuri. ✝ I finished the sixth unit today. It was simple; however, I needed some explanations in causatives. I had some controversy with the following sentence: "I heard that Susie had her motorbike stolen.", in which the causative indicates that "they did something to Susie's motorbike without her intention or control". However, it shouldn't necessarily mean it since some fraudulent intentions could be involved, e.g., Susie wanted someone to steal her motorbike because she deliberately wanted to commit insurance fraud. So, once again, the context is essential to understand how and what to use and why this structure means what it means. Then I completed som...

Despite making a vow to myself that I'd write a short entry every day, I couldn't find time yesterday to do so. It's not that I wouldn't want to, but the circumstances had different plans for me. For some inexplicable reason, the gum behind my tooth, which they had replaced the filling in last Friday, got inflamed. By the end of the day, I couldn't close my mouth, so I decided to check the non-stop dental ambulance at eight p.m. We drove to Budapest and waited half an hour to get in, but the swelling reduced completely, fortunately. They gave me some mothball-smelling ointment, which made me feel like being in a wardrobe amongst my granny's favourite fur coats. Anyway, by the time we got home at 10:30 p.m. I wasn't in the mood for writing. Today I had to pop into Budapest for a check-up at my dentist, and the good news is, there is nothing wrong with my inflamed gum. Hurray. As for my English: I went through the sixth lesson yesterday and today, and it went ...