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So, estamos en Cuautla at the moment. It´s meant to be a really nice town near to some natural baths, and also a water park. We´ve yet to notice any beauty though, as I swear, every third shop is a shoe shop, or a zapaterista. So, bought some chepo converse, 12 squids, cos my trainers are actually falling apart.
But, as a lot has happened in the last couple of days, I´ll start with those.
We moved into our permanent home for the next few months yesterday. After getting locked out of the big cabana that our bags were in, we had to track down a gardener, who then went off to find some help, and arrived with a procession of people. Some guy who smiles at us really wierdly when we walk past opened the door for us, and we lugged all our stuff across the camp over to our cabana. I´ve yet to take pictures of all the places round the camp, but la cabana is next to one of three campfires, or fogatas en español, and there are 6 beds in it, so the consejeras, or the campworkers stay there with us on friday and saturday night when we have to work weekends. The bathroom in it is dead big, must photo that too, and we´re next door to Urbano (hasta la vista baby) the guy who´s in charge of all the weekend activities, who is a hoot, and keeps talking to us in dodgy english, asking us if we´re lying when we said we didn´t mid working this weekend if he wanted us to. He´s huge, but a really nice guy so far.
So, we moved into the cabaña, and had a look round. Oh my giddy aunt, there were about 10 lockers int here, all stuffed with things the gappers from previous years have left behind. There are so many travel/romance novels, we practically had to start a dewey decimal system, and there are enough travel guides to but borders to shame. Also, there´s loads of teaching material and bingo games and stickers, so that´s dead good. Whilst we were hefting all the stuff out of the chaos that the canadians had left it in, we came across enough tampons etc. to last for the next ten years. And one of the cleaners, ferdinanda made our beds up for us and gave us extra blankets, cos it´s quite chilly at night.
We were also left a couple of survival guides to camohmila by the last two lots of gappers, saying who to trust, who to go to with problems etc.
We also met all of the kids yesterday afternoon. They are all Really nice! Dead cheeky, always trying to tickle and pinch you, but we just said NO ME GUSTA loads and they eventually stopped. We can threaten to tell on them to luis, their boss if they missbehave. We picked them up from school in the town, and then walked back, takes about 50 minutes through all the side streets, and watched them put all their stuff in their HUGE dorms. We tried to learn a few names, but it´s so hard, because it got dark later on, and they all look really similar, and the names are all so strange. Mind you, they had trouble saying and remembering our names, but I think they´ve nearly all got the hang of it now.
We set the dining room up for dinner for them with george (horhey), who we think likes us cos we´re on time, unlike the canadians and sat with them at dinner.
Afterwards we played on the sports field with them for an hour, and then they have to go and play by the swings and slides etc. it´s really regulated. By about 6 o´clock, lizzie and I were dead knackered, but we put some hoodies on and went to the salon social to have some supper (they don´t really have tea here at all) it was some festival day, god knows what, so we ate outside with tables on the grass, (becky, becky, lizzie, lizzie, sentaus aca, sentaus aqui) some dodgey fried cheese ham mayo and salad sandwich which was surprisingly nice, and some maize thing with chilli. yuck.
THEN we had MORE games in the dark on the field, which mainly involved throwing balls at each other and running a lot. And after that, FINALLY we went to bed, promising horhey that we would meet him at nine in the moring (lie in, yay!)
Our heads were absolutely buzzing with spanish, it´s really hard to understand the kids, but they speak slowly if you ask, so it´s all good.
This morning, we got up and had desayuno (we think the cooks like us, we ate loads this morning and at luch, and they just sit there watching you, smiling) then met horhey to go to all the schools. We walked and bussed it all over the place, and met all of the classes and their teachers, got introduced and heard the same conversation 6 times, and I think they expect a lot of us, because the canadians were so rubbish, but we can understand spanish, I can hablar it, and we are ´motivated and keen´or something like that! argh!
After that, we packed to go to cuautla, had lunch, and then decided that we were going to go to cautla. strange, yes, but hey.
So, off to tony´s pizza for tea (it looks clean) and then to our delightful hotel, 14 pounds a night between us, pas mal, clean, but smells like cigarettes a little bit.
hasta la pasta!
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