After the first two and a half weeks of classes everything seems to be travelling very smoothly. We have averaged fourteen to fifteen people per night and the age range would be about twenties to fourties. We even have two young girls who come with their mothers.
They work wonderfully hard at their learning and really get involved. You must remember that most have come from a days work to attend - this means being on a collectivo before seven to travel big distances One lady was so tired the other night that she fell asleep at her table! Another had carted buckets of water
all day up the side of her valley. The week before Gladys and her friend Rubi carried an empty gas bottle on the bus, had it filled and then carted it home after the lesson. You must remember that he gas bottles are substantially bigger than our Aussie Bar-B-Q gas bottles.
We share the class by taking one hour each. We have had great success in getting everyone to be on time, we refer to starting at seven o'clock 'gringo time'! They think that it is great because their starting times could be anywhere between seven and a quarter to eight!!
Finally, the other night Pilar announced to Marion and I that she thought that our lessons were 'dynamic' - that has to be a first for us both, a student telling the teacher that the lesson was dymamic. Another big reason why we love our time with these people.
