New Job and Some Fun Facts

Yesterday I got a new "job"... although not as official and contracted like my other one, I am getting paid a lot more--$18.66 per hour -- to help someone in English. We'll be meeting about 3 times a week for the next 4 months, except when I am not here, for about two hours each time, to just talk about different topics. My job is to help build his vocabulary, straighten out his pronunciation (the best I can, it's pretty rocky), and BUILD HIS CONFIDENCE!! Most of the things that come out of his mouth are "hesitance" words, like "uh" and "um"... I hope I recognize some progress after working with him a few months.

I spent most of today sitting in front of my computer trying to finish an assignment. I needed news articles to complete it, which required some web-surfing skills... here's some of the interesting things I learned today while surfing the web, just some more nonsense to float around in my head:

1. Britney Spears' 16-year-old sister is pregnant and engaged
2. the Space Shuttle came back down last night
3. in the UK, there's a plus-size beauty queen from Surrey who is determined to beat the skinny girls in a national pageant
4. France has a new president
5. Christie's in NY will be auctioning off a nude photograh of France's new president's new wife in April.
6. It costs about 15 Euro and takes about 3.5 hours by regional train to get from Rome to Florence
7. The dollar has weakened even MORE... each one of my Euros is now worth almost $1.56



That is all........
Caitlin