Ian calls my little class the Cult of Kate. Although, quite frankly, the Cult of Basil would probably be more appropriate. They quite often come round in the evening to see me (although we suspect it is really to see Basil), so yesterday we shut Basil outside so they couldn’t see him. I don’t know who was more upset, the children or Basil!
I’ve been asked to give a class to even younger ones next year. I think that they’ll be five or six years old. In true cult fashion, I think it will be good to get them young!! I will probably do this as it fits in with my criteria of not having children whose English is better than mine and whose Spanish won’t be that great either!
Manuel’s taking down the roof of the chicken shed today. He is very worried about it falling on our heads. They having been starting work at 7 and have also been coming back in the evening too. This time of year what we call ‘evening’ they call ‘afternoon’. Evening officially starts at sunset. This means that afternoons are very long during the summer. This means that if they come back at 8, that is still classified as afternoon! We don’t really change our eating times much during the summer and this means we often have meals when Manuel and Mario are working. I am sure that they must look at us, as we have breakfast at 8, lunch at 2 and tea at 8.30, and wonder what meals we are eating. They would have breakfast at 10.30, lunch at 4 and tea around midnight! They could think that we are eating between meals snacks!