An absolute nightmare of a Portuguese class today; Pastor
Allen had written some sentences, with gaps in, up on the board and then
proceeded to conduct the whole class in Portuguese; people were chiming in with
answers and he would occasionally write these up in the spaces. I had
absolutely no idea what was happening and, according to Brett, he nearly walked
out! It definitely wasn’t a class that was appropriate to people who have had a
mere twelve hours of tuition – I think he forgets that this is supposed to be a
beginner’s class. We take a bit of
the blame on ourselves as we have been less than diligent between classes; in
fact we only look at our work if we have homework. So we have made a
resolution; when we are back living in the Barn we will have a language lesson
(probably 10.00-11.00) everyday; we
have several books and CDs, so hopefully we won’t fall behind the rest of our
group.
I couldn’t get blood, fish and bone meal, I don’t think they
have it; there are lots of proprietary brands of fertilizers and feeds on the
shelves but not the basic ingredients to mix yourself – so I’m doing without!
We have lots of compost from the chicken and donkey sheds, I’ll use that.
We’ve booked our
ferry back to the UK, Santander to Portsmouth, on 10th November
which means we leave here two weeks tomorrow, how exciting. We now have lots to
do to organise ourselves before we go.
How frustrating, I’ve been reading a James Patterson book on
the Kindle and I’d got to 86% of the way through it; the lead detective’s
suspected murderer had been killed, she was being congratulated on a ‘job well
done’, when she discovered the dead guy didn’t have a tattoo so couldn’t be the
murderer and .................. the Kindle changed to a completely different
book (about baseball) for the concluding 14% - so I’ll never know if her father
was the murderer or just a ‘red herring’. And I can’t complain to Amazon as it
was an illegal copy of the book!!!
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