*squee*

Got a new private teaching job.
What? You're asking whether that was one of the reasons why I was a bit pissed off yesterday?
Not really.
Okay, I didn't know what to expect before I got there today.
A friend of mum's came to me a few weeks ago and asked whether I could help his granddaughter improve her English. But from the stuff he told me, it sounded like my help was barely needed because she just has a small vocabulary problem.
Well, when I set off to their village today, I didn't even know how old or in what grade the girl is. BTW, her parents own a pub/party service kind of thing and we've been their customers before and my class - while I was still at school - also had a pre-graduation party there.
When I came home about half an hour ago, I must've been grinning like a bloody idiot.
Why?
Because...
I have the cutest private student evah!!! *squee*
Her name's Charlene (<3) and she just started sixth grade. This means she's been learning English for only one year and so I still have plenty of time to help her.
And yes, contrary to what her grandpa's words sounded like, she DOES need some advice for it seems like she's got a general problem with memorizing words O_O But we'll manage. I'm just gonna try and use the vocabulary learning system I used myself, that should probably do the trick.
Today, we mainly chewed on her homework and geez, those English practising books today are weird. A lot of fancy stuff, riddles etc. that doesn't do anything in my opinion -_- Well, another thing we have to cope with, I guess. I can always make up additional excersises and questions myself, so there :P
Another thing I noticed is that she's not exactly confident in her knowledge. A couple of times, she seemed a little scared to answer a question, and when she did and it was indeed correct, I was like " So there, you CAN DO it AFTER ALL". But that might very well change once she gets to know me better because then, she'll understand that I DON'T get angry if she makes a mistake. I just DON't. I mean, why should I? I'm there to HELP her for fuck's sake, and not to punish her for anything. Usually, it's not the pupil's fault if he/she does bad, but the teacher's. It's always been like that, with ALL of my private pupls.
When we had finished, I asked Charlene whether our lesson was very bad for her. And she said "I though it'd be a lot worse". I liked that ^_^ Her mum seemed quite happy/confident as well and she even offered to pay me on a monthly basis O_O
Yeah. That was that.
I know it's weird, but it was fun. And earning 36€ a month doing something you like is a nice thing as well =)

Savage Circus & mp3 player

Looks like I'm about to fall in love with this album. Okay, they DO sound a lot like Blind Guardian, but that's NOT a bad thing ^_^ And "Waltz of the demon" is really amazing. The choirs sound so cool. I know for a fact that "Dreamland Manor" is one of Tobi's fave CDs at the moment as well. So our taste is somewhat compatible. A bit. Maybe. I wish it were XD Geez, being pathetic again, now are we?

Someone is planning to get another mp3 player yet again *cough* I do have one, you know that. And I don't wanna say I hate it. But y'know, there's tons of ways to make it crash, it doesn't write well via USB (in other words: it can't read its own contents sometimes -_-) and it uses up more elctricity than it should. Also, the parts that are holding the battery have already been replaced once.
So... change of plan. Of course, iPods are not for me, for various reasons:
1. I hate hate hate Apple and everything connected with it. Don't ask why. I just do.
2. They're far too expensive, considering the storage space they offer. I mean, you can get a 20 GB player at about the same price than a 4/6 GB iPod mini.
3. They have built-in batteries. I don't trust built-in batteries, even though the one in both my bellphone and my laptop never disappointed me. Doesn't make sense? I know. Guess I'm pretty good at not making sense ^_^;;;
4. Probably the most important reason: They're too expensive for my budget XD
So much for iPods ;P
Well, as USB stucks are getting cheaper by the hour (no kidding!) I guess it's time for me to jump on that bandwagon as well. Not to say I tend to jump on them regularly XD
Anyway, the one I'd like should be like this:

1024 MB of memory (twice as much as my current CF card player)

can read ID3 tags (or even .lyr files which would be super spiffy)

built-in microphone (dunno why, it's just kinda cool)

built-in radio (useless but good for showing off)

a menu using graphics

display can change its colour

simple design, preferably black

Now, getting that should be possible. And it is, at least if you consider the stuff you can find on eBay. Guess I'd have to invest about 75 to 80 Euros, shipping included. And they way it looks at the moment, I just might have that much money next month. Yatta! ^_^

Nuclear Blast now have their own mp3 player as well, look here! Okay, it's not really their own for they used one of the standard barebone models and just put their logo on it. But gosh, don't they look great? Imagine having your fave Metal mp3s on a USB stick that looks like THIS... I'd SO buy one if they had a 1024 MB version T_T

I wonder, why do ebay.com, ebay.co.uk and others ALWAYS try to send me back to ebay Germany? I do understand English, y'know. And I usually have a reason for NOT using ebay.de =_=

Need to redo my user info page. And I already got some sort of a concept. Oh, and thank you for the hugs, whoever gave them to me <3 <3 <3
*lurvz her flist* ^_^