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my new job for the open university is so weird...............

because i do not feel it like an actual job...............

i only work two hours a week.................tuesdays.............early evening..................

i teach the elementary level of english...............that is to say A1 level........................which means that my lessons do not need preparing in advance.................

i only teach adult students................two types................

i have five virtual students not entitled to attend the face-to-face lessons................they have never got in touch with me...........nor via the university forum...........nor via email...........i feel them like they are ghosts..............virtual ghosts..............

i also have two in-class students...............i have never met one of them............he has never come to the tutorial guidance sessions.........the other one..............only turned up once............and never came back again...................

and this is the normal situation for most of the tutors in charge of the different levels of english at the open university...............our students do not seem to be interested in our lessons..............

all this feels so weird................the classrooms that i am used to are cramful of noisy and disruptive little monsters.............always eager and willing to get on my nerves................

here the atmosphere is quite the contrary............solitude, peace, silence and emptiness...................all of which i enjoy so much................

the weirdest thing of everything is that i get paid three hundred dollars a month........just for going there and doing nothing.............

even weirder than weird is the fact that i am working for the university.......which is a gem in my professional profile and background..................

sometimes weird things happen..........................and this one is so so so good.................