I am sitting in MacDonald’s restaurant. What thoughts are going through my mind right now? I can’t think, there seems to be a lot of noise here, with the music tv, and people talking… so it’s difficult to focus on a particular topic.
Today’s classes are going to be easy but it’s the end of the free lunch… from next Tuesday, I have to start working again to earn my money. Yuck! The teaching season is here again. I can’t believe it. I am so lucky o have a vacation of three months, I just wished that I had used the last month better than I did. I think that each morning getting up at around 9:30 and getting out at eleven seems rather too late to do much. But I need to get up early, then I H ave this curious morning period where I don’t know what to do. I can’t find a quite corner. That’s what I need, and mornings are never my best time for this kind of activity anyway. I do feel spoiled by getting up later than the whole world by three hours. I just wish I had the privacy and office space like Tim has, I don’t know how I can get that. Any suggestions? I don’t really like my office at school, plus it’s too noisy for really concentrating. Libraries are fine, if you can get to them, but hardly private. That chapter on writing is particularly helpful, I think. Perhaps I can find my own solution to this problem. At least I can find a sense of personal space in restaurants, though they are not really quiet.
Where is there a quiet place in Taiwan? away from people, tv, Internet.
I need this too in some ways, but I can’t find any opportunity to exploit my time. I don’t know what else o say at this moment though, I can’t really type very accurately today, not very clearly either, and the noise of children is annoying to say the least. It’s a wonder that Fred has found the time to write as much of his book as he has, but then he has an office he can hide away in. Suggestions? I will have to think about this problem to find the answer that I can live with. I am lucky in many ways, but perhaps as the book Get what you came for suggested just writing a little every day, like exercise, means you can eventually finish it. That element of discipline is very important to achieve completion of the project. Don’t you agree? I think I had plenty of opportunity to finish this in my other vacation, but I don’t have a vacation now so what am I going to do? Also, people keep asking me to teach their classes, so I don’t know what to say except no. It’s frustrating to be asked so many times, because I only have so much time to do this. Perhaps I can ask for morning classes. Tim has three big advantages: a car, an office at home which is quiet, and not being married. I reached my allotment of words to day for my diary, good. I don’t have any problem writing five hundred words, but not many of them are particularly helpful.
a littel every day, like exercise, means you can eventually finish it. That element of discipline is very important to achieve completeion of the project. Don’t you agree? I think I had plenty of opportunity to finish this in my other vacation, but I don’t have a vacation now so what am I goihng to do? Also, people keep asking me to teach their classes, so I don’t know what to say except no. It’s frustrating to be asked so many times, because I only have so much time to do this. Perhaps I can ask for morning classes. Tim has three big advantages: a car, an office at home which is quiet, and not being married.