Class began an hour late this morning – in fact it always begins an hour later on Monday as the new students arrive and need to be tested and placed before lessons can begin in earnest. (Recall when we started last week we had to arrive at 8 AM.) But no new students joined our level (and in fact one student, a sweet Japanese woman, found the going too difficult and opted to drop to the beginner level) so now we are down to just four: Susan, myself, Irene from Holland and Marlisa from Switzerland. One must admit this smaller student-teacher ratio is the way to go and our learning seemed to pick up as a result. So it’s just the four of us at least this week anyway.
It’s very cold here today and this morning in particular the wind was quite brutal and remained so all day. It would come roaring down the small streets inside the walls, which apparently were designed to serve as wind tunnels, and just tear into you. In addition, they turn the heat off in the school over the weekend and so it takes quite a while for the rooms to get warm on Monday mornings so it was also a bit chilly in class.
After class we checked email, and found the solution to a couple of technical problems we were having (OK Steve was having) with getting images uploaded as well as sending email from our normal addresses. Everything is fine now it seems – although I need to work out a glitch with the blog archives.
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