lost in translation

went for another walk round cholchol today. took pictures of all the cute coloured houses and all the animals.they have soooo many chickens here and huge cows. we helped in class today for the first time. they are being so nice and letting us start teaching next week to get used to the school so right now we are just helping in classes. one class were learning about sports and helping required alot of spanish which i lack so they had me acting out the sports, cringe! they started asking about all the names of different animal in english. i thought they were just interested but the teacher later told me they all call each other names in class such as cow and they wanted to know it is english! i should have known they were up to something!! but i really love the kids they are very patient with we as i take ages to think of the words i want to say and they have already guessed them before i say them! i also love the girls in the boarding house they have so much energy! i wolk this morning to the sound of them laughing! one girl yesterday taught us the quaka dance( i think that is how you write it) it is for a festival they are having in about 3 weeks which is celebrated all over chile and this year it is going to me huge because it is the 200th anniversity. yesterday i decorated my room. put up the scottish flag and all the pictures from home. it was funny unpacking because it actually started to sink in the fact it was my bedroom for the year.
this morning we had breakfast with juan and margaritta(the cooks). they are both loving. we normally eat with the children but we got took to lie in which was nice! juan let me watch him make the bread. when my spanish is better i might ask if i can help him! we had bread and jam for breakfast which was nice but then again we had soup and bread for lunch and you can bet your bottom dollar we will have bread for dinner. it is lovely homemade bread but if i eat anymore i am going to burst!!! margaritta asked if we liked cooking and i thought i said i like making cakes but leona told me later i said i like cooking cats!! because i said the french word for cakes which sounds the same as gatos which is cats in spanish. what will that woman think of me now! it is a really bad habit of mine to start saying stuff in french when i have no idea how to say it in spanish, as if they are going to understand it! just had a group of wee kids round me a minute ago looking at what i was writing as if they could read it! the kids are so funny yesterday they said i had barbie hair but then again today one asked if me and leona were pregnant! guess i really do need to stay off the bread!!!
R xxx