Well, the life of Nadz has been pretty busy lately! The culture here is very much one where late nights are a norm. For about the last 10 days I haven’t got to bed before about 1 or 2 and then woken up early and only had like. 6 hours sleep, so I’ve been flagging a little for the last little while. (Last night I finally got 9 hours of sleep. Finally! 🥳) I can really tell that the culture here has gotten through to me as I was telling someone at home that I had to get up really early the next day. They asked me when and I was like …. 9am. In England that’s very late to get up to go to work! But here because ya don’t go to bed till late it kinda evens out and is late. But yeah, early in England is like. 5/6am so I think she was a little like 🤨
Anyways, what have you been up to I hear you cry? Well dear reader, I shall tell you.
Last week at Camelot was all end of year speaking tests, so I was at Camelot every day Monday-Thursday for a coupla hours, ontop of my 1:1s. On the Friday I had the whole day off which was lush! That’s usually my long day at Camelot with classes back to back.
On the Wednesday after the tests I had a bit of time to kill, so was just hanging with Ale for a bit whilst she did some marking, and then went to have a little chat with Laura. The little chat turned into a little cry as we talked about all the differences and things that are difficult for me, leaving a first world country to come into a very different country that’s not particularly very stable. It just made me cry because I didn’t even have to explain the things that are hard for me, she just inherently knew which made me bawl hahaha. And then started saying a whole load of truths over me which also made me tear up! Good thing I don’t mind too much crying in front of people any more 😂
Anyways, in the evening we had a send off for a few of the advanced II classes who have now finished at Camelot! Was very pleased that ample pizzas were ordered. Can’t be dealing with people who only order one pizza between like. 20 people 😂 nadz likes her food haha.
After a while Nolz arrived to pick me up and off we went bowling to celebrate the end of his exams 🥳 such a clever lil sausage, passed all his exams 😊 anyways, bowling here is a bit bizarre. It’s v old school and there’s only three lanes! And approximately every five mins the pins get stuck and the bowling man has to fix it. Sadly Noly won but let’s not dwell on that!
Friday ended up being very different than Nolz and I had planned. We were planning on doing something all day but something came up so alas we couldn’t! I did however, have a nice long chat with my brother and bought a notebook (to do some Spanish in) and a bullet journal as I have decided I want to start bullet journaling again 😊
In the eve, we did some carol singing! Well. One sing in particular. And only between the two of us. … Let me explain! Nolz and I had the idea that on Sunday we could maybe sing some carol songs. We’ve assembled a group from the youth of people who were interested, so Noly and I spent three hours trying to work out the harmonies and different parts !
Saturday I had a super chilled day! Lunch with Noly and then did some bullet journaling whilst Nolz was at a smash tournament. In the evening went back to Nolys and we watched a film 😊
On Monday I did a braves! Went to another English institute to give in my CV. I practised the phrase that I needed to say to the receptionist all the way there and, quite frankly, nailed it 💪 after that went off to Camelot for a meeting.
Once the meeting was over we all went out for dinner. Was a really lovely evening! From an English point of view there were some very unconventional conversations (related to shaving….) which made me chuckle but I’m quite used to this kind of thing now! Twas a really nice eve 😊 was nice to celebrate the end of the school year.
Tuesday was pretty chill! Nolz and I met to go over some carols prep stuff and then the carol group turned up and we went thru the first carol (silent night, holy night) and went thru the different parts. For the first practise it went pretty well! We’ve sent everyone their parts so I think it should hopefully come together. Made me feel so nice and Christmassy hearing it 😊 Tomorrow we’re gonna meet for practise number 2, so Noly and I really need to sort out the parts for the other carol we’re gonna sing, but typical Argentinian style, we’re leaving it a bit last minute!
Today [Wednesday] we finally went back to the gym 💪 and in the afternoon I finally, after about four years, met up with two of the missionaries that I met when I was here five years ago! Literally, it’s been about 4 years in the making! But it was so nice 😊 so nice to catch up and chat about life here, what they’re up to, culture bits etc. Plus we had merienda so that’s always a winner 😋
So there you have it! You’re all updated on the life of me. Stay tuned 😝
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