English School in Melbourne, Australia
By Eric (Discover English Teacher) As a single person living alone I have spent the last few months in the company of my cat. Pets are wonderful friends who support us and comfort us; even when we’re travelling the distant corners of the world and far from our furry friends, […]
By Eric (Discover English Teacher) As the knee of lockdown slowly lifts from our collective throats we can start to think about catching up with friends and loved ones again. It’s so exciting to imagine sitting on the spring grass of the local park and chatting animatedly with three select […]
By Eric (Discover English Teacher) We’re inching towards freedom. It’s lovely. But we’re still in lockdown for a while longer and sometimes that will wear us down. I know at times I just feel overburdened; crushed by the relentlessness, and the loneliness. Sometimes the lockdown is bearable, and sometimes it […]
By Eric (Discover English Teacher) It feels as though everyone here in Melbourne is waiting for this coming Sunday in the same way that children await Christmas – what wonderful gifts will lie under the tree? Or have we in fact been naughty children and find only an ugly lump […]
By Eric (Discover English Teacher) As Spring continues to tickle us with its promise of sunnier days, I am reminded of another fun way to pass a weekend afternoon in Melbourne. Well, in more normal times it would have been, and hopefully it will soon once again, be an option. […]
By Eric (Discover English Teacher) As I write this, the Spring sunshine pours through my windows and my cat’s whiskers are being blown around in the Spring wind. Spring is always so windy. Spring is a wonderful time for walking in the park. Well, it’s always lovely to walk in […]
By Eric (Discover English Teacher) Spring is on its way, and with it the tantalising promise of our freedoms returned. It’s exciting to think about even the possibility of being able to act like a human being again. A large part of being human is socialising – we are communal […]
By Eric (Discover English Teacher) Melbourne is a wonderful city, with many different things to do and places to go. Well, normally it is. At the moment Melbourne does not actually exist, it has been broken into five million separate bedrooms. A series of isolated, lonely cages. But it will […]