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So, it´s been a quiet week. Not really all that much going on at all. The weekend was really good fun. A load of chavos the same age as lizzie and I from Mexico city came to the camp, as they were training to be camp counsellors. So, of course, we got to join in with them, as there was not really a lot else to do. They were all dead nice to us, and we were actually able to have proper conversations about what we were doing, instead of just the bog standard taxi driver where are you from do you like mexico type thing. We had a few game type sessions, and a couple of talks about how to play games with the kids and all the different aspects of the camp, which were very boring to listen to at times, and really hard to concentrate on, especially when the person talking had a really unclear accent from time to time. My head hurt a lot by the end of it.
We did however get to wander round at night (me in a borrowed jacket that was HUGE and went down to my knees) and listen to ghost stories in all the really dark corners of the camp. There were a few that really freaked me out, but they were all mainly quite vague, cos I didn´t always catch everything that was said. Imagination is enough though! We were also made to walk one by one past a bridge in the dark where some man is meant to stand, and one of the consejeros jumped out at us to try and scare us silly. Fortunately, it didn´t work on me, but the girl just after me nearly wet herself. I think her scream made me jump more!
All good fun.
And the next day, (thank god, because it is ridiculously hot here now) we did some swimming type activities. They had this plastic barrel thing rigged up in the pool on four ropes, it´s like a bucking bronco type thing, and we had to sit on it whilst the consejeros and a couple of the aspirante lads tried to shake us off it. It was hilarious. I managed to stay on till the end though! haha! experta or what.
Muy buena onda.
After the weekend, though, this week has been fairly quiet. We just chilled by the pool for a bit on Monday, as the becarios were still on holiday, and wandered into town to have some ace ice cream and agua. We saw a funeral procession when we were sitting in the church park place, everyone was wearing just normal clothes, and there was a band in bright orange shirts playing really jolly music. It was really strange to see. They walked all the way through town to the cemetary, with a huge line of traffic after them (including some guys driving a furniture van who managed to whistle at us etc. about 4 times when we kept overtaking each other - we were going to stop and ask them if they would make us a wardrobe for our cabaña at a discount, but we thought better of it.....). In the evening, we went to the corner shop (it´s like being in primary school again!) and sat on the swings and had a coke in the dark. It was still like, 23 degrees at midnight! Man!
Tuesday the becarios came back, although we didn´t see too much of them, as we had the dispensa. All the old ladies were very indecisive as always, and towards the end, we realised that we had put out 10 piles too few, so we had to dash round sharing everything out again whilst the ladies fussed over the bags of bread. As usual. Also, there were a few accusations of stealing going on. It´s such a hassle, as you never know who to believe, and we´re always told by Luisa to check their bags and stuff, and we never want to, and never really do.
And as we were SO tired and exhausted from the heat (our pink clock said it was 45 degrees at one point, although we think that may have been because it was sat on a really hot brown step), we got the tienda guy to lob us a couple of cokes over the fence, and Lizzie did some very skilled throwing of small change back to him. Good times.
Yesterday, we had a couple of classes in Amatlán, and James, our representative from GAP, came to visit us with his wife and the new Mexcio rep. who´s taking over from him last year. We got to moan about all the things we wanted to change, and we had a bit talk with them and Luis and Luisa about different bits and bobs, and we also learned a LOT of goss.
The becarios were a bit more up for having a laugh yesterday, not so depressed at going back to school, and I helped a few with their homework (I think I had to practically translate the whole of ´let it be´for one of them, although I made him look up all the words in a dict. first), and then we messed round on the swings and stuff. They love it when you say ´dame un abrazo´(give me a hug) and then you tip them upside down. I was wrestled to the floor several times, and I got a LOT of grass down my pants. I managed to shake them off eventually though after we did a konga line (which turned into a train type thing when one of the lads ran in front of us going ´wooowoooooo´) all the way to the comedor, and I told them to go away cos I had to set all the tables with Lizzie. Bless.
We had a quick english lesson with the new easy peasy text books we´ve been given, but we didn´t really put much energy into it, cos lizzie and I were actually falling asleep. I could barely walk back to the cabaña. Although, having gone to bed at 10 past nine, neither of us got to sleep till about 11, cos it was soooo HOT!
And today, we´re going for some tacos in the market (we´re going to the blue stall today, they do the best carne con nopales, the red one is better for pollo milanesa con arroz, although we really should try some of the other stalls too. They just all look so good!), then we´ve got the usual Thursday walk home with the kids from school whilst getting sweaty prune hands from them holding onto you. The good thing is, that when we walk back to the camp with the kids, we don´t get beeped at quite as much....
Wow, ricky martin and la vida loca have just come on the radio. Madness.
Have fun guys.....xxx
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