Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Internet Woes

My free internet quit on Sunday.  I came home to find that I was completely cut off from the world, and succumbed into a mild state of panic.  I'd thought I had at least another couple days left of my free two months.  (Slight interjection: I am searching for ways to leave the country later this month at the moment-WHY is a one way ticket to Stockholm $171? Good grief.) I sat for awhile and pondered my options:  1. Put more money on my MTC modem, 2. Call my landlady and ask her about a way to connect to the wifi networks that exist in my apartment building,  3. Buy another modem with free months of internet, or 4. Buy another source of internet entirely.  I didn't want to do 1 because the internet from my MTC modem is rather crappy.  It can only get EDGE in my apartment.  I really didn't want to do 2 because it's so freakin' hard to understand Russians on the telephone, and I hate talking on the phone in general.  I did end up calling her though, to no avail.  She was at her dacha, and therefore couldn't be bothered with my paltry internet problems.  I didn't understand most of what she said (something about a sim card?) other than that she'd call back when she got home.  She still hasn't.  I went to the big shopping mall to look at all my options for buying more internet, but I just got very confused.  So, I have temporarily decided to visit a cafe with wifi every day until I figure something out.  I'm so incredibly decisive, aren't I?
On the jobs front, I now have offers coming out of my ears.  Today alone I was offered three new jobs, and I have taken them all!  I haven't even started to work for my fourth school yet.  That school called me today to ask if I had my curriculum planned yet.  "Ummm, No?" I said.  I was unaware I had to do that, especially since I don't know anything about my group(s) yet.  Do they want business English, or normal English?  What's their level?  These are things I kind of need to know to plan anything.  Of course, they can't really tell me anything about my group(s) because they are still forming them.  Gosh, life is hard.  

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