u/lrc1391

Basically what the title says. I’ve been doing private tutoring for the last 3 years, and it has been fine, but you’re depending too much on other people. People cancel last minute, and I don’t get paid for school holidays. I do make more hourly though, and there’s more flexibility.

I moved to a different city recently, and I started tutoring here a month ago. I was recently offered a full time job at a language school. I know the conditions aren’t always great at language schools, but I already work there part time. I get paid holidays including summer holidays when I’m not working, and the boss is a really awesome person. It’s more financial stability. It seems like an obvious decision, but I feel bad canceling all the tutoring classes now in October, and kind of leaving people hanging. (I live in a very small city, and there are no other native teachers). It would not be possible to do both. I felt pretty confident about my decision to leave the tutoring, and then I got a message this morning from a mother telling me her daughter said I was “the best English teacher she ever had.”

I know I should do what’s best for me, but I hate letting other people down. Plus I’m in a new city, and I don’t want to get the reputation of being “unreliable.” On the other hand, people don’t think about me when they cancel their class an hour ahead of time several times a month, so I shouldn’t care as much either.

What would you do?

Prior to meeting my partner, I traveled solo all over the world since my early 20s. Traveling is my passion, and something that is really important to me. My partner hasn’t traveled much, and has never traveled solo. He is from a country that is very social and family oriented, so people almost never do things by themselves. Like people stare at me when I go to a cafe by myself here haha. I am from a country where people become independent pretty young, so traveling solo isn’t super uncommon. We live together in his country.

He made a comment the other day saying, “I’m not very interested in going to North Macedonia and Kosovo, but I’ll go because I love you.” I told him he didn’t have to go, I was thinking of going during my spring break when he has to work. (I’m a teacher, so I get longer holidays than him). Not going wasn’t an option to him because he says we’re a “team and do everything together.” Of course I want to travel with him, but I told him he doesn’t have to use his vacation time and pay money to go somewhere he’s not very interested in, and I’ll be fine alone. His whole thing is we do everything together, and I love you so I’ll do what you want, but it’s not like I’m proposing going to see a movie he’s not interested in, it would be like a week long trip. I went to Romania solo for 5 days earlier this year, and he wasn’t super thrilled about it, but he was studying for an important exam, and couldn’t take time off to travel. I missed him, but it was also nice to get some of my independence back. I’m reliant on him for a lot of things living in his home country.

So those of you that are in longterm relationships, do you still travel solo, or do you only travel together now?

I’m a pretty causal player, and I just reached level 70, mostly because of friendship interactions. I started playing again after like 5+ years because I walk A LOT, and it gives me something to do while walking. I don’t really do raids or catch that many Pokémon honestly. To get to level 71, I need 15 platinum medals, but I’m not very close to that number, and it seems like it’s going to take a long time to get that many. Which platinum medals are the easiest to get? I don’t care that much about leveling up, so I’m sure it’s going to take me a while, but it would be nice if it’s not years haha.

Trying this again since my last post was removed

Seriously, I don't get it. I understand that life happens, and people can't always reply right away, but several times now I have answered people's ads, agreed to write first, and then they never responded. Also I've had people reach out to me randomly, asked me to write first, and I did, and then they didn't reply either. Why even bother asking? International mail is like $3.50 a letter in the country | live in, and I've had like 10 people ghost me in the last couple months. I'm super grateful for the lovely pen pals I have now, but I don't understand why people ask for pen pals when they're not actually interested in responding.

I’m strongly considering going to Serbia for 5 or so days. I’ll be traveling from Madrid. Right now I’m thinking February because I have some school holidays then. I know it will be cold. I’m really interested in history, nature, good food, culture and meeting new people. I don’t drink at all, so I’m not too interested in nightlife. Tell me the good and the bad about Serbia. The tickets are super cheap the week I’m thinking about going, but I’m trying to plan a bit before I impulsively buy them… thank you!

I am from the U.S. originally, but now I live in a small town in Spain, and there aren’t fabric stores nearby. I’m hoping to get some Christmas fabric when I visit home the end of next month. I want to make my husband and I some matching Christmas pajamas, and maybe some decorations too. Will they be available then, or is it too early?

When I tell people about my mom, they don’t believe me. I often have people telling me that I’m so lucky to have her as my mom, and she’s such an amazing person. She’s super generous to other people and their kids. She buys gifts all the time for others, and feeds the less fortunate, but won’t help out her kids that are struggling. She provides so much love and support to my cousins when they’re going through a tough time, but always criticizes and judges her own kids. Maybe some of it is performative so people think she’s a great person, but I’m just curious if anyone else has dealt with the same thing.

Basically what I wrote in the title. Where I’m from, the instructors are required to do the newest release for 2 weeks, and then they can do whatever they want afterwards. I moved abroad, and at my current gym (and in this city honestly), they only do the newest release for 3 months until the next release comes out. They don’t mix it up at all. It’s good and bad. Like you know what to expect, but also as someone that does a Les Mills class almost everyday, it gets pretty boring after like a month. I’m just curious which of this two formats is the most usual!

I live in Spain in a smaller city, and as much as I’d love to support them, my local fabric shops are super expensive. I’m just starting out, so €20 for a meter of regular cotton fabric is a bit steep. Are there any online retailers that are a bit cheaper? I’ve seen some fabric on Vinted which is much cheaper.