About the blog: you may have already noticed, but I recently added a page with some general information about Karelia. If you're a regular reader you've probably already gotten most of what's there, but if not or if you're interested, either access it under the banner or click here. In other news, while I should probably wait for this to solidify further, I'm planning on featuring guest posts by some of my fellow ETAs on this blog throughout the month of February. While some of us have been keeping blogs to document our activities (see sidebar), others haven't but still have plenty of interesting things to share. I figure it will also be a good opportunity for my six or seven regular readers to get a glimpse of life in other places in Russia, which can be very different from my own experience. I've already got one commitment from a good friend of mine in one of Russia's most exotic locales, but that's all I'm giving away for now. See how I build the tension?
About my life: teaching starts up again tomorrow. I was able to meet with Tanya today and hash out a loose strategy for the semester. My goal is to make my lesson plans both more varied to keep the students interested and more grammar- and practice-heavy to maximize their progress. She'll continue working through their grammar book with them, while I'll concentrate on problem areas, phrasal verbs, and idiomatic usages. Stuff like the difference between "put up," "put up with," "put off," and "put out." Isn't English fun? Also, I'm going cross-country skiing on Sunday. There will be pictures.
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