Thursday afternoon
Well, I did go out last night. There was a fine spell and I thought I'd risk it. I arrived at school at 10 to 6 and discovered that between my spanish and the other teacher's English, I was and hour and a half early!! ( I later checked my diary and I had written 6pm, AND Miriam was speaking English when we made the arrangements, so.....) Well anyway I took the blame, after all it is her country, and had to stick around for the next hour and a half while she took some children for English lessons. I couldn't go back home as it had decided to pour down again.
At 7.30 we went round the corner from school and into the supermarket.
Well, I was a little confused, after all, Miriam had invited me for coffee. I thought maybe she was going to buy a jar and take it back to school. But she did know where she was going, as in the back of the supermarket was a door into a very flash restaurant. We had lovely coffee (my first nice coffee here) and a piece of Ricotta cake. A strong Italian influence here in Argentina. We trundled back to school and I took a small class of adults for a chat about NZ and the differences between the cultures. They were really interesting to talk to as they all worked in the National Park here in Iguazu. One guy lived actually in the forest. He delighted in telling me all about the dangerous spiders and snakes etc that were to be found even in my street! Well, I said thanks for that! I really needed to know and now I'm on my way to the airport!! They had a good laugh. I was telling them how amazed I was at the number of dogs here in Argentina. Later I mentioned that in NZ there were 10 sheep for every person, and the guy who lives in the forest came back with / In Argentina for every person there are 10 dogs! I was impressed with his understanding and being ble to make a joke, and told him I was going to relay that to all in NZ.
Meanwhile outside the thunder and lightening was going hell for leather, so at 10.30 when it was time to go home, Miriam called a taxi thank goodness. Didn't want to trust my umbrella in all that lightening. (Was channeling Benjamin Franklin)
So, that was my evening, quite fun really.
A wet day today again, really hope it fines up for the weekend.
Till next time
Hasta la vista
Viv