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Things I wish Mrs. Jennings had taught us/made us learn better, in Spanish.
1.How to argue with the cleaning ladies over which sheets we should have taken to be washed.
2. How to defend yourself against cleaning ladies who know lots of nice young men who would be more than happy to help you learn spanish.
3. How to yell at kids to shut up without getting the words wrong and having them laugh at you.
4. How to ask what exactly the rule is concerning when you are allowed the agua at lunch times.
5. How to tell a consejero who likes taking the mick that no, you are not a ´grinch´ and you misunderstood when he said alicia keys was beautiful and you agreed with him. (because yes, the songs are beautiful, but no, you do not fancy her)
6. How to tell Urbano, in no uncertain terms, that you cannot possibly fit any more food into your stomach, because if you did, you would throw it all back up again.
7. How to tell Jorge that no thanks, we don´t need an extra lad to go to veracruz with us this weekend, and yes, Octavio may be sitting right there but I´m sure that he would rather not come. And no Jorge, you can´t come either. Sorry.
8. How to (quicky) yell to Florencio that if he jumps up at that banner he will knock it down. Woops. Too late.
9. How to explain to Alfredo that you would rather not be told all the individual variations of the gestation periods of the animals on the farm.
10. How to argue (yet again) with someone who has blatantly short changed you or charged you too much because you are foreign.
What a week. Fortunately though, we managed to get out of gardening yesterday, as there was some really posh dinner thing where all the becarios had to wear their school uniforms and brush their hair. And we had table cloths and ladels and bread baskets and proper agua and everything.
Oh, and we were filmed by some random lady with red hair who was making a video to show at the ymca annual conference.
And the becarios were chucked out of their cabanas last night because a huge group (250) is coming to stay today, but only for one night (why?) and the lads have to sleep in tents. We tried to scare them, but they weren´t in the tents at the time.
Plus, there are loads of really creepy circus banners all over the camp. On is about 4m tall, a huge lion with a hole where it´s mouth should be.
Very surreal.
But, we´re off a travelling tomorrow straight after lessons, should be fun!
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