Despite idiotic house problems, I had a great time teaching Marcelino yesterday. We both enjoyed the lesson. It makes me very happy to have a student who laughs and says he feels re-invigorated after a stressful day, due to studying English!
I found out he has a wife, but she is in Argentina. Poor man, no wonder he wants to learn English so badly, if that is his only hope of getting a job back in Latin America. It seems she is quite the lady; the department head of dance at a University there. Of course, she teaches Argentine Tango.
I was one heck of an impressed English teacher.

I am kept abreast of the parts of the region without cell coverage (well, I exaggerate), but today there are a lot of clients in the Canaries without coverage, and for this reason we may have to make up the English class tomorrow or Saturday.

It is interesting to get a northerner's perspective on Andalucia. He says he identifies more with the French, and his way of dealing with things is quite different from people here - more persevering, more focussed, and just in general not so "manana" as the people here. He says some of the people under him have the attitude that if a tower needs repair, they wait 2 hours for the next technician to come on shift, so they won't have to work overtime. You would think that even in Andalucia they would understand that people can't be without their cell coverage!

Jill and Brian were here since Tuesday night. I went and met them that night for a drink and a walk around the city. Then again Wednesday afternoon and after class last night. We went through the alcazar yesterday during the afternoon, and had a few tapas here and there. It was nice of them to treat me; they were thankful for my knowledge of the city (and are aware of my low income). I tried to think of places for them that had less meat and more vegetables. It wasn't easy and I wasn't entirely successful. Fortunately Jill, who has feet astonishingly similar to mine, managed to find some cute boots. That is the magic of Spain: poor deprived women who search high and low in North America for shoes that are not like a pair of boats, can walk straight into a shop here and buy a nice narrow pair!