The following day my class was a little better and less discouraging. I did a spot of memorising, and have most of the prepositions somewhere in my brain if not always readily accessible. This was overshadowed by the GF’s departure as he left for his nearly-month long travels to New Zealand for a conference. The conference itself is only a week, but he is taken a week at either end to get there and return without too much damage to wellbeing. So yesterday was taken up with him, and then he left this morning.
I spent most of today working – the piano-sized piece of work is still hovering overhead and making me uneasy, but I have no choice but to wait – and went out for lunch in the afternoon in a new direction. I felt rather bad as there was a lovely park there, just around the corner, but a corner that for some reason we had not turned. I had a torta from Oaxaca’s best known food truck. It was tasty indeed, and did make me think how many variations on meat+cheese sandwich there are (and how far superior non-European versions generally tend to be).
Tomorrow I move into my homestay. I’m a little nervous about it, but so it goes. That is what I am doing and if I find it terrible I daresay I can always move out.
The cricket this morning was nervewracking. It was Pakistan vs Afghanistan, but it seemed to alternate between Pakistan vs Pakistan and Afghanistan vs Afghanistan. I suppose one might say that Afghanistan was victorious, in that Pakistan won. There has been a really distasteful tension around this match and I do have my guesses as to the source on the Pakistan side at least. However, I really must find a way to watch or listen to the matches; today’s demonstrated to me that falling the over-by-over text updates on the Guardian, or even the ball-by-ball updates on the BBC, are not good enough when a match is finely balanced. And Pakistan’s matches tend to be either roller coaster rides, or utmost defeats in which case I will join the nation in turning off the coverage in disgust. But where to find cricket in Mexico?