Once upon a time, there was a girl called Susan...
Greetings everyone from a very tired Mexican correspondent! Yesterday our landlord, Jorge (who is SO much nicer than Crazy Barbara, my last landlady!) took us all hiking in a beautiful canyon to the north-east of the city. Beautiful but steep! It took well over an hour to hike down on the rocky, uneven paths (whilst being passed by children who apparently were actually mutant mountain goats, given how sure-footedly they were bounding down!), following which we hiked beside the river, which also included a bit of rock-climbing. At this point I pointed out to my flatmate, Alberto, that if I died it was going to be his responsibility to call my parents and explain, and that my mother might actually kill him. I’m not sure whether he believed me.Anyway, after a picnic lunch by a tiny waterfall and a second stop by the river we set off back up the hill. Alberto, his friend (who’s name I think was Violetta), Sonja and Angela all made it up in about an hour. Jorge and I took two! What can I say, I didn’t realized how soft I’d gotten after three years living away from Wellington’s hills! But it was a wonderful place: lush and green, smelling of damp foliage and flowers, without any of the traffic noise which is constant in the city, and filled with birds and butterflies. The views were spectacular as well: think a smaller version of the Grand Canyon, only much, much greener.
Amazingly, I’m not especially sore today, although that may change tomorrow, which is just as well since I had an 8am class today! Fortunately I’d prepared an exercise on Saturday so I had something to do with them, and I rounded off with the exercise Jen suggested a couple of weeks ago, the one where they each add a line to a story, then fold the page over so that the next person can only see the line immediately preceding theirs. I supplied the first and last lines and this is the result:
‘Once upon a time there was a girl called Susan
who used to swim across long and frozen rivers
to demonstrate [to] all their friends how much courage [they] had
because they had been defending us against the monsters.
They used all kinds of weapons to destroy them.
After that they sit down to cry
And realize that all their stuff and money were not there.
So they made a huge insurance claim and lived happily ever after.’
LOL
Not bad, I thought!
Yesterday was Becks' birthday: happy birthday Becks!! (P.S.: I did try to call you, but only got your answerphone. Hope you had a good one!)
posted by Paulette @ 12:30 PM
1 Comments:
ROFL!!! I liked the "Susan" story!! Sounds like you are having a good time! Continue to enjoy!
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