pastel de queso

i have a kipling update from padre pepinillo in inglaterra, quoted verbatim below:

i went to the same school as Kipling and was in the House called Kipling so be careful

he was a very intelligent sensitive white suprematist

my school was founded by the East India Company to train people to govern India

that´s the end of that

thanks PP, that was your 15 minutes of fame. anyone else got any further kipling comments?

today we are researching teaching jobs, which is actually very exciting. i have so far found one in la paz, bolivia, which sounds cool. but doesn`t quite fit with my plan of staying in mexico, so not sure about that. and the more we look at the job websites, the more i don`t know where on earth i want to be - it´s quite strange to have so much choice, and for someone as indecisive as me it`s a very confusing situation to be in.

so we have finished teaching for the week. it has gone ok generally, some lessons better than others. i taught a basic3 class about object pronouns, ie me-him-her-them-us etc, which is actually harder than it sounds when their english is so basic. they were filming our teaching that day too which will be horrendous to have to watch, but it`s part of savannah´s ploy to get us to be more positive about ourselves - she told us off for being so self-critical and negative about our teaching the other day.

and now for a funny story which i have just remembered. last saturday before leaving for manzanillo with juan and alfredo and jayne, i went to get a phonecard to top up my mobile. i went to the telcel shop in the square - telcel is the main network over here - and went in and said buenos dias, and the guy working there shook my hand and gave me a kiss, which threw me a bit, then he said hi lucy how are you... i was thinking wow you get really good customer service in mexico, but how does he know my name.. ? turns out we´d been talking to him in the club on thursday, and i´d forgotten due to copious whiskey drinking. anyway i turned up for my advanced2 class on wednesday, and there he is again, asking me how my trip to manzanillo was... ha ha. good ice breaker anyway to have already met most of your class when drunk in a nightclub. it was a really good class, we were discussing what advice you would give people to stop biting their fingernails, or organise their busy lives etc. one group came up with squeezing a stress ball to stop biting your fingernails, but obviously this ended up being squeezing your balls...

this week`s other news - skye fell over on one of the very potholed pavements here. she is ok and it was quite funny (maybe more for me than for her). jayne got taken out for birthday lunch on wednesday and consequently missed teaching her class that night as she was too drunk. skye is going on a date with gabriel, the waiter from our local bar, who we have renamed el angel gabriel as he is so lovely. i will update how it goes next week, if i´m allowed.