Where has June gone?

I thought it was about time I contributed, now we have a landline I´m not constantly looking at the clock….

I´ve pretty much got into a routine and I´m getting more confident in practising my spanish. It´s often funny and I can see people wincing at me while trying to understand what on earth I´m saying but generally I´m understood!

That is unless like today when a drunk columbian chap takes a shine to me at the bus station whilst waiting to get home. He started with an innocent request for a light and then proceeded in, drunken spanish, to guess which country I was from. The first was Ireland “what a lovely place”, then Germany “something to do with Hitler” and then I felt the need to put him out of his misery. “England” I said and noticed a young spaniard smiling. It was then I realised I shouldn´t have said anything.
I was now his new friend. Thankfully the bus came – good an escape – no, he decided to change his plans and travel to wherever I was going! Sitting next to me he cracked open an cruzcampo and continued his chat much to mine and all the other passengers dismay. Whilst praying for a way out and at the same time imaginging him coming back to the flat for a cup of tea, he fell into a drunken stuper. Praise the Lord! But oh I´m trapped by the window! Eventually we reached the end of the route and desperate not to disturb him, I climbed over the seats to get out. Ahhhh made it!

Other than that today I had an informal interview re. temp work in the San Pedro clinic. It was a call out of the blue on the bus to lessons. It looks promising and I´ll be going back next week for questions and details re my registration and stuff. So watch this space!