First Week in Prades

After arriving on the wrong day for our flight and having to wait 12 hours in the airport and pay an additional 250 pounds, things have started to get better. We dragged all our luggage around a stinkingly hot Tarragona and went to the beach. Then we went to a mini festival, and bought a plate of grilled sardines and two glasses of cava for about 9 euros which was sweet and listened to the music. We hadn't eaten for ages because we were so conscious of how much extra missing that flight has cost us, so it tasted amazing.

We got to camp and met all the teachers, 15 girls and 5 boys!!! always the same ratio! and then we met all the kids etc. My class is class 12 this term, out of 19 classes, so a good level to teach and they're all really nice. They did pretty well in their exam on Friday too, so I am proud.

One kid in my other class however, wrote "Fuck" for a verb that begins with f during a game we were playing and then two other kids copied it and so I told them off then they said it was the first kid and then he said he didn't do it and had crossed it out but i could see under the crossings out that it was there and then i didn't give him a point for good behaviour like i said i was going to because it was completely unacceptable and then he said that I "lied to him" and that he was going to tell Simon, the director, on me!!!!! the shit. He also wrote in his classwork that he wants to kick Obama´s head around like a football. Slightly concerning.

Other than that I have mostly been playing chess (never knew about Rook switches!), taking photos on my SLR using the different settings, for example taking long exposure shots of all the kids dancing while SAM stands still among them, which should be cool, and high speed shots of diving into the swimming pool etc

The food is still shit, loooads of fish which is nice though. We dressed up for Ibiza night wearing all white recently and tomorrow it is Grease night again. We are learning the new dance and it is really hard! but a tune (El Mano Arriba)

Spanish is coming back to me quite nicely. Yesterday we had a picnic in Tarragona while everyone went out for a meal (we are skint) and we got prawns, seedy bread, gazpacho, salad and a raspberry vinaigrette which was amazing! for 10 euros, and we sat outside in a little park/fountain area which was also ON A ROUNDABOUT haha then we went to the beach and went in the sea about 4 times and there were little fish swimming with us and we floated and got a bit burnt and dehydrated but it was fine.

Also the other day I presented the theatre productions of each class, with George - one of the other teachers, and we were dressed up as mimes, which was really fun. But one of Sams kids dropped a bench on her foot and it swellled up like a purple balloon so he didn't really enjoy the theatre.

I have finished my film now, so will be getting those developed next time we´re in Tarragona, also will have my interview then, and will start looking for flats!!! it´s so exciting.