Blogs from Guanajuato, Mexico, North America - page 27

The inevitable has happened and the weekend is over; we're back in our routine of beginning lessons at 9am. Schooldays don't make good blog entries, so we won't go on just for the sake of it. Our day and our mood can be summarised by pointing out that learning grammar is boring. We made a bit more progress with getting our photos online, and did some planning of our upcoming whistlestop tour of Central America. We will be well acquainted with bus stations by the time we reach Colombia. Adios chicos... ... read more

Despite what you may think, there really is little rest for us. Whilst you were all putting your feet up watching England thrash Andorra, we were hard at work trying to learn lists of Spanish vocabulary. The fact that we were sitting outside a café in the sunshine actually made it very hard to concentrate. In the afternoon we spent some time with a Canadian chap called Justin heartily criticising America. That last bit is actually not quite true, and was just for the benefit of Mark J-P's American girlfriend Katy. We hear that our blog so far has been a little USA-unfriendly, which is unintentional. We're penning a piece that expands on this for future blog posting, with the working title "Annoying North Americans (vb. not adj.)" In the evening Ed won junior Mexican Trivial ... read more

Not a lot of much note today, hence the famous plagiarised newspaper headline serving as today's title. There's no connection whatsoever. Ed's teacher had hit the tequila a little hard the night before so she took him out for some breakfast for his first lesson. Later we went boozing, and got drenched in another great thunderstorm. ... read more

More of the same today. Gemma learnt more verbs and how to describe herself and others. Ed learnt how to order food at a resturant and kept things interesting with elementary sentences about the Pope being muslim and Fidel Castro being dead. The teachers never know if you're joking. Today we both felt a little out of it, as we have a 300 steps walk up the hill from the centre of town where the school is. Of course, it's only the altitude that makes it tiring, and in fact Ed wasn't even tired at all and is actually thinking about running up them... maybe mañana. We are having to make this journey 3 or 4 times a day, with our food and shelter at the top of the hill and the school, centre and ... read more

We remember what it is like to have a lay-in, which is fantastic and just get ourselves sorted for the week ahead. In addition to the two of us there are three others - Rachel from Switzerland (who's here for 3 months but seems pretty fluent already to us) and Toby and Sophie from England. These two are coming to the end of a 2 year trip away (1 year in Japan teaching and then working and travelling since). They have many interesting stories and are helping us understand Asia a lot more. We arranged a "family" outing to the cinema to see Miami Vice. While it won't get nominated for an Oscar, or at least we hope not, it entertained us for a couple of hours. The best part of the outing was going ... read more