This past week's been pretty good. Work has been going pretty well. Ingrid, sadly, is off for three weeks to rest. We hope she's better soon. She's so sweet. Thankfully the school has been on the ball and has hired a replacement teacher. Pamela is really nice and is a great teacher. She's happy to let us participate loads and she has lots of ideas. We're going to try and instigate some classroom rules to make teaching a bit easier. Sometimes the kids are awful and it can be really challenging to teach them. So me and Amina are making a Golden Rules poster for the wall. We've also cleaned the classroom and want to get permission to repaint it. We have the idea of getting some kids to help us and having a little party when it's all spruced up.
The after school class on Wednesday was good. Everyone was pretty sleepy so we just did some songs and poster making. One primero girl actually fell asleep. Pobrecita.
Capoeira's been going really well since the summer. The teacher Remo is really good and helps everyone. Learning the songs and music is fun. The songs are in Portugease because capoeira started in Brazil. The instruments they play are berimbau, atabaque, pandero and cogo. It sounds really good. And the people there are so nice.
Some of our capoeira group
Yesterday we went to an asado with some teachers from the school. It was nice. Some of them we'd talked to more than others so it was nice to talk to everyone. It was reassuring to see that the headmaster was as awkward with everyone else and not just us. But then it must be strange being someone's boss, having a different sort of relationship.
So yeh things have been good recently. Feeling really busy with school and capoeira and meeting friends. Time seems to be passing very quickly. Keep meaning to do things and forgetting because I get home so tired. All week I'd been meaning to wash my jumper. Finally remembered this morning and found that Ruth did it yesterday. What a great lady. The ants have arrived for the season. Find them crawling everywhere. We can't have any food in our room lest they sniff it out and invade. Apparently they're always here in Autumn. It rained for the first time in ages yesterday. We ran from the bus stop to the house, couldn't have been more than two minutes, and we got absolutely soaked! Ruth just sort of tutted and told us to get changed.
Our desk officer Felicity is visiting Lautaro on Tuesday. We're going to spend tomorrow in Temuco with her and the CholChol girls. Should be good.
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