I have a few minutes as Pepa is letting me use her computer. Mine has broken down. I have too much work to do - though it is forcing me to organise and figure out how to teach classes on the spot with less resources. Then I have my certificate to finish by monday - a paper and a summary of the course and to correct something I did already.

Anyways... just a little break:

It has been crazy the last couple weeks. Last week I hardly had time to breathe. I do not have any plans to come home any time soon. That is one thing I have currently decided.

I went to Jerez on the weekend. I needed to get away. Geoffrey just got there before me and had chased some mice out through the hole in the wall in the shower, and then plugged the hole with a cork. We had some wine. The next day I didn´t feel too good, as I hadn´t eaten since 4 and then drank a fair bit, only snacking a little as both of us got there late. I slept a fair bit during the day, but managed to hang two cupboard doors and drill holes for the hinges in the others. I didn´t help him very much this time, but he was very grateful anyways.

Adela Campallo is a really lovely person and dancer. I enjoy her classes. Luckily I have some friends who I´ve just made, in the class who have helped me catch up with what I didn´t learn last month. Yu fu, from Taiwan and Miho from Japan. There are lots of other nice girls too. Today Rafael, her brother, substituted for her. I really enjoyed his class. He still reminds me of my cousin Trevor. He´s an excellent teacher, and can be very serious about the important aspects of dancing, particularly the simplest (but most difficult) things that most people tend to overlook: to connection with the music, the complete control of all your movements, taking things slowly and relaxedly. He seems to be always smiling or laughing: even while making us do an extremely repetitive exercise that exhausts us. He adds accents all over the place and just plays. No wonder he seems happy, smiling and laughing: who wouldn´t be, if your entire job involved playing with rhythm? What better possible thing in the world is there? He tells us he doesn´t think of himself as a dancer with particularly fast feet (you would laugh if you saw him dance). He says his special mark is adding accents in the right place. What he says is true - there are others who do ridiculous machine-like footwork that wows people, but doesn´t say a lot.

Anyways, I must go, probably use a computer at the library, or plan out the rest of my lessons for tomorrow on paper.