So where was I? My brain is overheated. Sunday was very quiet, I couldn’t really do much, I’m sweating every minute of every day. The humidity seems to make the heat feel so much worse.
Anyway, back to school yesterday for my last week, at least for a while. This week the class is much, much better. I’m so lucky to have kept Ele as my teacher, she is such a delight. There are no smart arsed Aussies in this class which is a relief. I have 2 “my age” American woman from the West coast who are having a little holiday together. There is still Alicia. Funny but I’m getting quite fond of her, my most unlikely partner in crime. We bonded over finding the Austn woman of last week overpowering!! There is an older Brazilian woman who doesn’t say much but I’m sure would be very interesting if I got to know her. And there is Gerhardt, an Austrian man who is in the middle of a ‘life change’ moving away from his own business into being a watercolour artist who teaches painting to groups on field trips and makes a living with his exhibitions. There are also some lovely people in other classes who team up with me for coffee and who are delightful. One is a lovely Australian woman from Kew. So…a good group all in all but I’m not spending time out of school with anyone as I was a few weeks ago.
Yesterday I plucked up my will-power and rode around the wall X3 (not 3.5 because I was losing my grip on the handles through the sweat!!!!).
Last night Lucca was treated to a sound and light show au naturale with thunder and lightning positively pounding away throughout the night. It was amazing with the whole sky lit up continuously. So, not much by way of sleep!! And as I write now the thunder seems to be starting up again.
I finally rang Cristina (landlady) yesterday and with her advice have now got the cooler chugging away. It’s a blessed relief but a really impractical unit. You have to stick a great pipe out the window which means the window has to be open which means “ZANZARE”…(mosquitoes). So I either swelter or I get bitten!! Cristina was supposed to bring around an ordinary fan for me which would be helpful but it hasn’t arrived yet!!
Today my other Christina rang and is on track to come up to Lucca on Friday…that will be a nice treat. After school I set off to find a dressmaker I’d heard about because I wanted the hem straightened on one of my few dresses. That was a coup….I found them and they will have it ready for tomorrow for a mere 5 Eu….hopefully it will be a successful operation. I then bumped into Gerhardt having a beer after he’d been out painting. So I joined him for a drink for half an hour then headed home.
Back to writing up todays lesson before dinner.