Tuesday 3rd October

Slept terribly, was woken up more than 5 times between 12 and 6am. Ended up sleeping in another hour and heading to school on an 8.55 bus. Realised that was mid-lesson time so hung around in the park until a good time to go in. Found some English teachers straight away and had a nice little chat. Started looking at the course books they’re using for each level and then asked if I could sit in some classes. Toni had a difficult class lined up and asked me to ask someone else and Angel said no probs so I went with him to his upper level class and then to a 4^th grade class who were much more troublesome. I didn’t really do much in that second class but I felt quite involved in the first. He introduced me and then I sat at the back and he got me up to the front once to explain a few phrasal verbs and then a bit later on he sent students to me one by one to do a little speaking exam about their daily routines. They were pretty good. Some better than others, some just lacking confidence, some just not bothering. But yeh, I felt quite useful.

Called in at Movistar on the way home to ask why texts to England are costing me 70c a time and it’s cos it’s a base of 60c and then tax gets added! Outrageous. It was closing time as I arrived and Helen (the French girl) shut all the doors and shut me in to help me. We decided it’s best to go for 5 favourite numbers which will reduce my rates and she started going on about how nice it is speaking English and made me promise to go back so she could practise!

Then I went to the National Police and HURRAH got my NIE. Got on a bus back to Las Palmas, came in and had some lunch and a shower, now it’s time for a siesta.