The building itself is an award-winning one and it is very interesting, indeed. What is more important is, that you can go in and look around any time during the opening hours individually. (No pre-booked and guided tours at certain times.) The more, if you go in the afternoon, you are also allowed to listen to the debates.

I really like this open attitude. We went there during our lunch break so we didn't have too much time and there was no debate to listen to but we could go to the debate room and take photos. There was also an interactive and informative exhibition about the history of Scotland and especially the history of the parliamentary system.

There was a typical diary of an MSP. I liked it very much. It may make the whole thing human and understandable for any folk like myself.

Yesterday evening before I went to sleep I switched on the TV and suddenly I heard someone speaking in Hungarian. Believe it or not, there was a Hungarian documentary on modern slavery. Well...

Today's classes were about teaching and we did lots of activities. So far we had presentations about Scotland and the education system in the afternoon, but today we had normal classes.

The morning session was about writing and correction of written work. The most important thing I learnt that a thorough correction of students' writing is a kind of waste of time. It's better to set some success criteria (3-4) and check those only. Based on the criteria you can give a sandwich feedback to each student which means that you insert a critical comment between two compliments. The aspect you criticised can be one of the success criteria next time for that student to see if there is progress. This method seems to be manageable, effective and tailored to each student's needs.

Then we had a session on CLIL for young learners, however, most activities can be adopted to higher level or older students. If I had a vote, I would teach only CLIL in primary schools and the typical exam topics like hobbies, travelling, environmental issues, family, etc. would be taught at secondary level. It is true, that we repeat the same topics from year to year, and although we try to discuss them from different angles they remain the same dull language book topics.

The last session was about books - in the after-lunch slump we had. ...

Today we went to a bookshop. I think I can stop here. Everyone can imagine.

In the evening we went to the cinema. The Hate U Give, that was the film we saw. It is based on Angie Thomas' 2017 novel I'm going to buy and read. At the end we saw just three letters from the title - HUG - that was then expanded to the original. It is a kind of Hollywood happy ending, I think.

Sometimes I feel that we never learn. There's a film I've seen several times in which an alien arrives to destroy humans in order to save the Earth but at last gives us another chance because he lets himself convinced that we learn from out mistakes. But sometimes I think he is just wrong. Watch the film or read the book because I simply can't speak about it.

I bought a book for my students, too. I mean I'm going to use the short stories in it in my classes. It is one of the contemporary bestsellers the sales assistant recommended us.