Well, after an exhausting dispensa where the mean old ladies told on us cos we only did 50 piles as there wasn't much food, and made lui say that we had to make 10 more OUT OF NOTHING!, and some VERY tedious tarea time, it was swimming day yet again. I swear to god, I lose half of my body weight in that pool, we do so much lifting and dragging around and splashing. I managed to teach one of the lads to do backstroke and crawl in a passable style, and got a few m...

Well, last week was coolish. We did some farming on tuesday, and of course the dioensa (jeez) and then, on tuesday afternoon, we were commanded by Luis (very scary) to go and get changed and go swimmning with the becarios. So of course we did. They all though it was hilarious to spalsh us continously. I didn´t think I would ever be able to see again. And they all wanted us to teach them how to swim. Which is all very well, but when you have small boys grabbi...

Acapulco! I didn't even realise that this place was in Mexico till a few months ago. Showing off my Geography skills. Well, after arriving to get the bus Just In Time, we had a very pleasant journey trying not to watch a film about a teenage serial killer that had the volume turned up really loud. We hopped on a local bus to try and locate the zolcalo (where all the cheaper hotels were) and ended up at some random market place, where we got a taxi driver (who tr...

Acapulco! I didn't even realise that this place was in Mexico till a few months ago. Showing off my Geography skills. Well, after arriving to get the bus Just In Time, we had a very pleasant journey trying not to watch a film about a teenage serial killer that had the volume turned up really loud. We hopped on a local bus to try and locate the zolcalo (where all the cheaper hotels were) and ended up at some random market place, where we got a taxi driver (who tr...

Well, after a very enjoyable Thursday afternoon where I helped a becario translate the whole of ´illegal´ (santana and christina aguelieriaria - he better get full marks, it was well hard) I also managed to maim myself on really sharp dead leaves playing kickball, oh, and got almost no response from retelling the spanish jokes we learnt last weekend, oh and got beat in like, 15 moves in chess against Urbano Thursday night (but redeemed myself by winning...