Just A Little Blog

I apologise in advance for what's probably going to be a slightly boring blog. I was ill for the majority of last week so I wasn't really doing much more than lying around at home having Ruth bring me water and grapes.
Oh that's something. It's grape season here and there are some really fat grapes around. But they all have seeds. I'm always going to appreciate seedless grapes from now on. But yeh it's seems like it's going to be that sort of blog.

I'm enjoying seeing the changes in kids at school. How they've changed from last year. One boy Emiliano in segundo B has improved so much from last year. Last year he was quite badly behaved and wouldn't do his work. He's been held back a year and he is so much better now. Much better behaved, he does his work and he's actually really sweet. I think it might be because he's been removed from the influence of his old classmates. There are some crazy kids in tercero B. But the new segundo B's are really chilled, sweet kids.

We went to a birthday party at the weekend. One of the capoeira teachers 26th birthday. I can't believe he's only 26 because he is SOOOO good at capoeira. They start young. It's crazy. It was a really great party. It was at a friends house. Lots of dancing and of course and asado. I thought it was about time for another asado, it was nearly three weeks since our last one. I like the Chilean tradition of shoving the birthday persons face in their cake. But then when they give cake covered cheek kisses things can get a little messy.

It's getting a bit crazy because I am so used to giving cheek kisses that I'm starting to be surprised when the men don't cheek kiss each other. I always expect it even though I know they don't, they just shake hands. It's funny watching friends pretend like they're about to kiss each other.

That's really all I have to talk about. Autumn is continuing to be quite a pleasant season. The mornings are generally not too cold and the hot sun in the afternoons means we can continue to lunch in the plaza. There are some beautiful sunrises here in the mornings. I'll try and get a pic and put it on my next blog. My current plan is to learn how to make kuchen from Ruty. It's really tasty.