Day 12

26-10-09

Good productive day for building today; dug out a huge hole for the silo tank. We stayed an extra half hour in the hope to catch up but we´re still behind, so we´ll probably opt to stay longer again tomorrow and me and Jack will just have to deprive Yas of his a-bit-too-regular-and-long breaks.

Did some knitting before going to partake in our very first lesson teaching English. I really didn´t have a clue how on earth this was going to go as my Spanish is still pretty darn basic but thankfully it went very very well! We got a great turnout from the community of both adults and children; possibly between 25-30 people showed up which was amazing as we weren´t expecting over 5 as it was just the first lesson and we weren´t sure if many people had heard about it. Me and Hannah took a group of about 10 children ranging from 7 yr olds to 12 yr olds. We just taught them the basics for introducing yourself. Although our Spanish is still really basic, we knew enough to teach them a little English which was enough as they didn´t even know how to speak a word of English. Without any prior experience to this sort of thing, and with no guidance or direction from our supervisors, it thankfully went really really well for us all and they all seemed keen tocome back for more so we´ll hopefully be seeing them all back on Wednesday.

Today Millie took me to this vintage stall she´d found at the market. Its amazing. I got an Abercrombie & Fitch wooley cardigan for the equivalent of a pound! And also an Alpaca cardigan, again for a pound! I think we shall be browsing there frequently for some smashing steals! We had such a laugh with Carla tonight pissing around taking stupid pictures on my camera - literally rolling about laughing, good times!

Hmmmm I can hear somebody walking on the roof of our bedroom again as I write this, and I´m feeling rather nervous as I can see the metal roof bend under his every step! Please let there be no surprise visitors tongiht!