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Back to the village and the five month mark!

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We’re now back into the swing of village life and getting use to being back at school again. I think when we first came back from the holidays I was actually feeling the most homesick that I’d been and I was missing Frank a lot and it was suddenly quite intense being back at school again, but we’re now back into the swing of life here and our one day weekend. We have a really nice new routine of cooking and sharing food with our host mother, or the person we share a house with (she’s only twenty-three) who is called Anita. She has a five year old son who we’re always playing games with in the mornings and afternoons. We also had a timetable change, which means that we’re now teaching more English classes (I’m teaching all 7 classes) every day and there hasn’t been any computer classes, which tend to be a lot more relaxed. Instead, now, we have all the younger classes in the afternoon which can end up quite chaotic - I’m lucky if class 1 (full of 5 and 6 year olds) does anything other