They think it's all over....

Hello beautiful people,

Well I have started to miss our classes now. The painful void of the first week without class was helped by a visit from my mother and sister, which is always nice, but now the distractions have gone and this Thursday I am going to the EOI and I will not see you!

I want to take this chance to thank you for my beautiful bag. I have used it and received compliments but unfortunately we have not been to the beach yet - lots of time for that!

Anyway, I have just commented on Miquel's blog and I realized that it is not so sad, we are all continuing our journeys with the languages we try to speak, so we will always be united in this!

I spoke to the school and said that some of the students seemed to think the course was ok and asked if I could design something similar (for high levels) but different (I don't know how yet....) for next year and they said that is a possibility.

I did think of you all and I thought I should share this anecdote on here. It's an example of the (perhaps false) modesty of us English, and it was completely automatic, I only realized afterwards how typically English I was being.

Here goes:
While my mother was here visiting my flat, she was being nosy as usual, looking at my classes, me new bedroom, and she found some feedback sheets and was having a little read (like school reports when I was a child really - nothing's changed - I haven't even learnt to hide these things from her). Anyway, she said how lots of people said lots of nice things and even when there was a criticism, it was usually with delivered in a very friendly way, so she thought I was a good teacher and I corrected her that maybe I had just taught all my students to be English and indirect! So there we go, I am still English, this display of not accepting a compliment affirms it, although my mother and sister both tell me that my language is a bit altered...

finally, I noticed from the emails that friday July 3rd seems to be the most popular/easiest day for people, so we should persuade all of those who find it more difficult and arrange a time and a place!

And really really finally, I do hope you continue keeping in tuch on here, as it will help maintain the English too. My first Catalan teacher used to say almost daily how writing is the one way of mastering a language and he was right!

See you soon
Felicity