I am leaving the hotel tomorrow! I am off to house sit at some swanky 5 floor house for five weeks. The people who own it are friends of the director of studeis at the language school and when they told her today that they wanted someone to look after their house whilst they are away from tomorrow she put them in touch with me as she knew I was looking for a place to live. This now means that I've got some time to try and find a decent place rather than going for the first available place.

Their housekeeper will still be cleaning etc whilst they are away so I wont have to clean their house or anything like that. they just really want someone to be in the house rather than leaving it pretty much empty for 5 weeks. Its in quite a nice part of the city - away from all the tourists and the rickshaw guys who pester you every time you hit the streets. It does mean I'm gonna have to find my way into the city each morning rather than jsut walking from the hotel but there are taxis and motorbike taxis plus there may well be a bus. Its gonna make the early mornings even more torturous though. Morning classes start at 7.45 so I'm gonna have to be getting up stupidly early to make it in for then. Still I only have to do that for 3 days a week. The rest of the week I have off! I am covering a woman who only works for 3 days. She does 8 hours a day though which is why she can get away with doing only 3 days. Most teachers seem to work 20-25 hours a week, plus all the prep time but at this language school you get a say in when you work so you can either teach one 4 hour class a day for the whole week or double up and teach more classes over less days. This means I get 4 days to recover from the 3 early starts a week!