Twinings English Breakfast tea is really a step down from what I've been drinking. But it's either that or go out for coffee in the mornings. I managed to find a tin of it loose in Corte Ingles. That should tide me over till I can manage to swing by the only decent tea shop I know of in the city, now quite far away from me and only open after 4 pm. Twinings English Breakfast, however dull it may be is far superior to any other type of "tea" the Spanish swill across a bar here. (The only decent tea you get is in an Arabic teahouse, but ALWAYS mixed with the wildest manner of herbs, flowers, spices, and a ton of sugar - which is really another animal altogether, from a decent, standard, good cup of tea).

Paco is going to be going to Saudi Arabia to work, in all likelihood. I just upped the price of his English classes by 40% and he was okay with it. Talk about freaked out of my mind to ask for that...! The fear had nothing to do with losing a student I need and everything to do with shame for going back on my word (something VERY Anglosaxon) and for asking for what I need for myself (and for revealing that I was rookie enough not to have figured that out yet). There was just no possible way I could continue biking half an hour across the city, and preparing classes for about an hour each time, for E10 an hour. Ridiculous. Not his fault. Mine, for advertising my prices as E12 an hour and him asking if he could have a discount for paying me for a month at a time up front, and me saying I could discount it 2E. Various people told me I should take the metro out to Nervion - ha ha. Not for 2.35 each way making 10E an hour!
So I said 15 per hour and 1 Euro discount for paying ahead. That's still not as it should be (should be E20 an hour, but I feel that may not fly in an economic crisis, unless I specifically target wealthy neighborhoods or develop a new method of teaching, which is also possible).

Anyways, I am relieved and extremely happy, and now trying to figure out what dance classes to take this month.