‘Sheila, I have something to tell you. Friday a coach comes to the school and we all get on. Then we go for –what do you call that?
‘A school trip?’
Jose Eladro, as always, looks pleased to learn a new English expression.
It’s Wednesday, my first day at Collegio Luis Casado , and I’m to have Thursday off thanks to some exchange that hasn’t been organised. So it’s been a one-day week.
‘Oh, that’s good.Where are we going?’
‘We visit a place where residual water is made cleaner’
What a coincidence. Only last week we said farewell to our temporary lodger, Stan, water treatment engineer whose new job had been confirmed. He said one of the company’s works was in Castile-y-Leon.It was a bit noisy on the coach. ‘Corrales is a ‘shouty’ village said Lydia, who’s been teaching four years.
‘It’s the weather!’ said Olga
The presentation is too technical for me, so I’m impressed by how attentive the children are.
The children shout with horror when we enter the indoor part of the plant, and come out again holding their noses. ‘It’s whiffy.’, laughs Olga. It’s another word I taught her when I heard the Spanish pronunciation of ‘Wifi’.
After, we go to a church in the town of Benavente, which is much more interesting – twelfth century, elaborate gilded set pieces inside. I tell Olga that they remind me of the Byzantium exhibition I saw in London, but she surprises me when she tells me she prefers plain churches. Where does she find them? Not in Zamora, that’s for sure.
2 comments:
That does seem a bit of a coincidence! Sounds a bit different from the usual museum trips that I went on as a child. All I ever remember from my school trips was the hard boiled egg in my packed lunch which I could never eat as it made me gag!
Aaah! I bet you were cute as a kid!
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