Peregrination Posts

Make Me Super Fat

That’s more or less the literal translation of the Spanish title of the American documentary movie ‘Super Size Me’ by Morgan Spurlock. How do I know this? Because I’m watching the movie with my advanced English class. Why? Well, we read an article about it as part of another lesson last week, and since none of them had seen it I asked them if they wanted to watch it as the movie of the month (we watch in English with the English sub-titles turned on, which gives the exposure to natural spoken English). I also figured it’d be great for promoting discussion and giving some fascinating insights into the American way of life. The really interesting thing, though, is how many more people turn up for class when the word ‘movie’ is mentioned!

Life here is having it’s ups and downs at the moment. On the one hand, it looks like I’ll be losing some classes in November, as several of the courses I teach are finishing and they don’t want me to start new ones when I’ll be leaving a couple of weeks through. Another class is liable to get cancelled through lack of students (the school won’t keep a class running with less than five students because it isn’t financially viable). On the one hand, this means a dip in income which means I’ll be arriving back in NZ with a bit of credit card debt. On the other hand, it’ll be a pretty manageable amount and, as the classes in question are on Saturdays, I’ll have my Saturdays free again.

On the plus side, next Wednesday is a public holiday, and one of my students, who happens to be from Tequlia, has offered to take me over there for the day to see it, so that should be pretty exciting. Otherwise, of course, I can use one of those free Saturdays to go! And this Sunday I’m off to a place called Tonala, which is a town near here with a large and well-known market, with a couple of my flatmates, so I’ll be buying people’s Christmas presents (those of you not in NZ, I’m afraid your presents will be late this year because I refuse to pay the extortionate Mexican postage fees to mail them to you!).

The other really great thing is that I finally managed to reach Becks on her cellphone yesterday! This is a pretty big deal because, what with me moving about so much and her not having my email address (?!!!) or checking her emails regularly and my phonecard not connecting calls to her cellphone nine times out of ten… well, we’d been out of touch for a bout two months which is not at all nice when you’re talking about your best friend of almost ten years. Anyway, we couldn’t talk long, but she now knows when I’m coming home and the great news is she’s now living in Auckland, so we’ll DEFINITELY be able to see each other!

Hard to believe I’ll be home in about six weeks!

posted by Paulette @ 12:09 PM