I find it harder and harder each year to warm up into the rhythm of the teaching season, which possibly indicates that I'm losing steam as an English teacher. How long is it going to take me? One year, two, three? I'm rather sceptical about the longer run, both in terms of my enthusiam and the market for English teaching in Poland. But it'd require immense strength to complete an educational and professional U turn now, leaving experience and habits aside and embracing something new. And it might mean a temporary fall in earnings on quite a large scale, but I could get over it provided there was a new direction for me to pursue.
Meanwhile, the Guardian published an interview with Stella McCartney, the ex-Beatle's daughter and a fashion designer, in which she sets out her environmental attitudes and talks at length about childhood, career and fashion industry.
Good language and facts to remember:
01. every inch means in every respect, entirely, as in: "Mozart was every inch a genius",
02. rye toast = żytni chleb,
03. Stella is an outspoken vegetarian,
04. You can try to reduce your carbon footprint,
05. A trenchant respect is a vigorous, keen, distinct respect,
06. Ecotricity is an English green energy company operating wind turbines,
07. Ben 10 is an American animated series,
08. McCartney's first collection was universally panned = harshly reviewed,
09. If you butter somebody up, you compliement them excessively, as in: He was a proficient flatterer, particularly good at buttering up young attractive women,
10. Biodegradable carrier bags are growing in populatiry.
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