Thursday cont

Hola todos (have pasted this from the email)
I'm being very brave, have come out this Thursday evening to the Telecom shop down the road just to send you news!! Monica, my host, is at work this evening so I thought I'd take the opportunity to send this off.
Iguazu is very interesting. The streets are broken and the footpaths a menace if you don't look where you are going. I am staying with Monica, a 30 year old Spanish teacher who teaches at 3 schools in the area. She walks everywhere as the schools are relatively close. Her flat is one of two behind the main house and consists of 1 room which is the bedroom, lounge, dining combined, a tiny bathroom and a small narrow kitchen. She has given up her bed for me and is sleeping on a foldaway bed that has to be put up when not is use as there is no room to leave it. As much as I insist, she will not let me take the foldaway bed. The food is very different also in that we don't have dinner, but eat a main meal during the day. We get up at 6am, Breakfast is the famous Dulce Leche, a sort of chocolate/caramel condensed milk affair, spread on crackers and a cup of tea. Then we drink Mate at school during the breaks,*starting at 7 or 7'30am and come home for lunch. After lunch is siesta until about 4pm. Afternoon tea is mate and a small sweet biscuit.
School starts again about 6pm for an hour or so. In the evening we have coffee and crackers with Dulce Leche.
Today was my first day at school and I was overwhelmed with language / fast, lots of people talking at once and on subjects I have not come across before with my limited Spanish. Quite daunting I can assure you. In the weekend we are going to Brazil and Paraguay shopping!!!!!! The clothes I have are not suitable *shame!
So, stay tuned,
Hasta luego
Viv