  Every day I get up at 8AM, get ready, have some breakfast, maybe drink some tea and then head down the mountain to school. My walk is very steep in places and part of it is a series of stairs that cut down at an angle to sea level.
The street down which I walk is flanked on both sides by flowering, sweet smelling trees an shrubs and the sun is either shining brightly or hiding behind fluffy white clouds. It never hides for very long, though. School starts at 9AM and I have two sessions of 2 hours each. My first lesson is with Lucy. Lucy is young and fun and is from Tenerife. She speaks very quickly and uses her hands to make her point. She is always enthusiastic and willing to explain thigns to us many, many times. I have learned, though investigation, that she has a serious boyfriend who lives in Suiza and is studying French. My second lesson is with Sergio, also young and fun but calmer than Lucy. They provide a good balance.
Sergio is very cute and makes good faces when he is trying to explain emotions. He has the pacience of a saint and when he is making a point, it is always sound and often insightful. Our classes involve a combination of speaking, reading, writing and doing worksheets. We work on verb tenses a lot and recently worked on feelings, compliments, resumes and cover letters, and we had a whole lesson on John Gray´s book ¨Men are from mars, Women are from Venus.¨ It requires a certain amount of perserverence to stay intent on figuring out what you hear for four hours and by break and lunch (break is between classes and lunch is after) I am ready for something else.
For a few days, as you know, I was busy doing scuba stuff, and then that feel apart and now i am back to creating things for myself to do. I am usually content to go to the beach or shopping or something simple like that. One day we went to a small town further away and looked at a tree. Tonight there are some people who are giong to a festival in another town, but they are all German and I feel a little left out when they are all togther. There are many, many Germans at dQ. This weekend I am going to the Teide and maybe to take a bus around the island to look at it. Could be an adventure to take by myself. Anyway, after I go to the beach or putter around I often go home (15 minutes uphill!!!! ) and take a shower and then head back down for dinner or fun. I have also had 2 dinner parties since I´ve been here, one last week and one last night. Very basic food- once it was spaghetti and once I had pizza. Last night someone had stopped at the german bakery and gotten a plethora of delicious deserts.
SO GOOD. Then, if we are down in town I usually head back by midnight and go to bed. On the weekend maybe later, though last weekend i was very tird and didn´t do much in the late night time frame. I love Tenerife and think it is very, very beautful. Some say its very ¨spring break¨ish but I haven´t found it to be anything but totally laid back and comfortable. Most of the people are really nice and my only irritant is the lady who wants to braid my hair and what i create for myself! 
