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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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Location: Mexico City
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 Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject: What do you do when you're not teaching? |
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ericksgm
Joined: 08 May 2006
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Location: Tapachula
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| I�m still getting to know the city so right now when I�m not teaching, I am walking around aimlessly trying to find new places. I always seem to end up in the centro though. I don�t know how that happens. I think it has something to do with the merengue (sp?) cookies and the music but I�m not sure. |
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ontoit
Joined: 18 Jun 2006
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| I've got four kids, making me a full-time taxi driver. In my free time I work. . . |
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Gregor
Joined: 06 Jan 2005
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Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
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Right now, I'm not working. So by day I make music and watch TV. By night, I drink and surf the Net.
Countin' flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all,
Playin' solitaire 'til dawn, with a deck of fifty-one,
Smokin' cigarettes and watching Captain (Kang...) Kangaroo
Don't tell me I've nothin' to do...
When I'm in the field, as it were, I'd play music. In Oaxaca and Jakarta, I had bands and played out semi-professionally. How cool is that? In Oaxaca, I actually made as much money as a drummer as I made as a teacher, and in Jakarta it wasn't quite that much but close. |
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sickbag
Joined: 10 Jan 2005
Posts: 155
Location: Blighty
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Wondering why the football team I support can play so badly year after year.
Playing chess.
Occasional bouts of irresponsible drinking. |
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MELEE
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
Posts: 2583
Location: The Mexican Hinterland
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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Similar to ontoit, I feel like teaching is my time off...
In addition to acting as a toddler jungle gym, I'm building a rainwater catchment system and using grey water to turn my back yard into an oasis! I'm also streatching my baking skills because my sister-in-law has finally discovered cake mixes so I have to make more elaborate creations to keep the extended family in awe. |
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lozwich
Joined: 25 May 2003
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I've just had a month off on sick leave, which entailed lying around and going to the doctor's or physiotherapy and not much else.
When I'm not incapacitated, busy with doctor's visits or teaching I like to walk (5 hours is a nice gentle stroll for me), do yoga, take photos, cook and spend Saturday nights going "Wahoo!!!"
Oh, and there's always the Internet.  |
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corporatehuman
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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Location: Mexico City
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I actually started running. I never really ran before in my life, but I started with a friend here, and that's something I do. Its really painful afterwards.
I write everyday, always at least for an hour. Read short stories. Read the news. Watch a LOT of football. I really love football now. I'm not sure whether I really love it or if its just that everyone around me loves it so I just naturally have assimilated to their loves, or whatnot. I even started playing soccer (I really suck), and while it was a great experience it was pretty embarassing at times as well.
I tried to do one of those head things, where you direct the ball with your head into the goal. But all that happened is a guy kicked a ball and it pounded me in the head, and the ball went effectively nowhere (actually behind me) and I felt like I had been punched.
So I'm trying to learn.,
- Chris |
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sickbag
Joined: 10 Jan 2005
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Location: Blighty
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Watch a LOT of football. I really love football now. I'm not sure whether I really love it or if its just that everyone around me loves it so I just naturally have assimilated to their loves, or whatnot. I even started playing soccer (I really suck), and while it was a great experience it was pretty embarassing at times as well. |
You can never watch too much football.
And there's no such thing as soccer.  |
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saraswati
Joined: 30 Mar 2004
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| When I'm not chauffering, I practice yoga and do pilates. I'm also in the middle of a yoga teacher training course and when I get organized, I'll get back to the correspondence course in Ayurvedic medicine. |
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lozwich
Joined: 25 May 2003
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Really Saraswati?? I mean, I'd kind of guessed by the name, but anyhoo...
What style? I used to be a big Astanga girl myself until the knee operation a month ago. |
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danielita
Joined: 06 Mar 2006
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Location: SLP
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I spend my time exploring my town and the surrounding area, going to the beach, reading and watching TV.
I am looking at taking up running, but unfortunately I have been stricken with a case of interia.... Hopefully it will pass and I will become motivated soon...
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M@tt
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Location: here and there
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That's it?!?!
You're a bunch of pathetic losers. Moonraven would be ashamed of you!
You could at least have the drive to back a revolution. |
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MELEE
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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Location: The Mexican Hinterland
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Matt,
Just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it isn't there... |
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lozwich
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| I am looking at taking up running, but unfortunately I have been stricken with a case of interia.... Hopefully it will pass and I will become motivated soon... |
Danielita, I believe that "looking at" part is the most important part of taking up anything.
First, decide to take something up (running, a musical instrument, a language, whatever). Spend hours daydreaming about it and how it will change your life/make you healthier/more interesting/sexy.
About 2 months later start to do fairly heavy "reasearch" on your new hobby. Spend weeks and months poring over magazines and websites and visiting speciality shops to find all the information possible about the specialised "equipment" you will need for your hobby.
Take a couple of months to save up the money for all of the equipment you need, and at the same time get distracted for at least 6 months by some other new thing to take up that's much more life-changing/interesting/healthy/sexy than your previous interest.
Go back to the beginning.
I've been doing this with the idea of swimming laps for about 2 years now. Reckon I'll be ready to start somewhere around mid 2007!  |
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