Leigh in Azerbaijan

Teaching is over for me this term, but not without the price of being anxious all day about getting all the tasks done: relief teacher notes, ESL in the Mainstream organisation, meet and greet organisation (BP provide this wonderful service for ex-pats – collecting from and delivering to the airport), printing necessary notes for the [...]

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Some time back I signed up with Kiva to provide loans to people who are attempting to become self-sufficient by starting small businesses .  I was linked to an Azeri woman who has already started to repay her loan of $1000 after buying three calves and feed.
Check it out as a way to make loans [...]

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I got home at 12 last night after the restaurant gig. It was very noisy, mostly TISA people but there were about 6 other parties of diners during the night. Wayne and I separately sat on a chair close to our long line of tables and sang with various degrees of success.  [...]

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