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		<title>The Curious Incident of the Teacher at the Technohole</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was angry. In fact, I was so angry that I lost my appetite for most of the afternoon and evening, which is strange for me. What had happened? Well, put simply, it was one of those stereotypical moments of French impoliteness. In order to fully explain the situation I should take you back a couple of weeks, ney, a year, to explain where this story begins.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mackinchris.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9756326&amp;post=138&amp;subd=mackinchris&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Hairdressers to Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I went to get a haircut. For such an insignificant event it reconfirmed in my mind the subtle differences that exist between life in France and back in the UK/Ireland.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mackinchris.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9756326&amp;post=133&amp;subd=mackinchris&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Poor, Neglected Blog!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am planning on introducing my students in certain classes to Father Ted next week. I’m especially looking forward to teaching them ‘Feck, Drink, Arse,’ ‘I love my brick,’ and my personal favourite ‘NUNS! NUNS! REVERSE! REVERSE! REVERSE! REVERSE!’<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mackinchris.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9756326&amp;post=131&amp;subd=mackinchris&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s snowing, and snow always gets my creativity flowing for some reason, which is why this blog is finally being updated. I haven’t really got a topic for the entry, but there are a mishmash of things that I want to mention, the first of which was the snow.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mackinchris.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9756326&amp;post=128&amp;subd=mackinchris&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My day in a nutshell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am just reaching the end of a 5 hour stint of exam supervision and believe I am going slightly insane. There are only so many times you can refresh facebook or hotmail or BBC News, even on the spending cut day.

With only half an hour left and some students leaving the room I now feel comfortable enough to type for a sustained period of time. As yet I don’t really know what this blog post is about, but I’m sure it will develop as I go on.

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		<title>Recess is over</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time I wrote I was finishing off my first year in Metz and heading for the warm and sunny climes of the southern Iberian Peninsula. If I was to begin to write about my summer adventures this blog entry would last at least 10 pages. So I will just let you in on the basics.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mackinchris.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9756326&amp;post=123&amp;subd=mackinchris&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Return</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I remembered why I love Brussels. It is a city of such contrast, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism. It is bustling, young, and hip. It has motivated me.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mackinchris.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9756326&amp;post=121&amp;subd=mackinchris&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Events</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 10:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As with so many things in life, the predicted events of the past few weeks (see previous blog entry) did not work out exactly as planned<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mackinchris.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9756326&amp;post=119&amp;subd=mackinchris&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Special Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 09:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like I have cleared the path to most of the third level and that from now on I will be following the path and hoping that it is a winding one, with many twists, turns and forks along the way.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mackinchris.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9756326&amp;post=117&amp;subd=mackinchris&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trip down south &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 10:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time we thought we were prepared for the delightful Eurolines journey back to Nancy, but alas, as Peter Kay-a-like stepped on the bus and asked where were going (he was the driver), we realised that this may be another difficult trip.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mackinchris.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9756326&amp;post=113&amp;subd=mackinchris&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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