Monday comes around. week 6.

I am shattered, three morning sessions, two afternoon, but my head has said that she will look at the schedule so that some days will be a bit shorter if possible. Of course on Saturday night they finished drinking about 4 in the morning and two hours later were up to milk the cow and cut sugar beet all day and got to work at 8.30 so you can see why they might be puzzled by the fact that I just cannot do that.  Could not cut sugar beet full stop.  I am relieved to say my non ability to party does not seem to have caused a rift.  We all chatted today about the trip, they apologised to me for keeping me up and I apologised to them for not being able to party as much as they can.  So hopefully it will all be okay.

The good news is I am beginning to get my head round the materials that we have, pre existing material and now I understand a bit more how it works can see that it saves time. For the last 6 or so years I have originated everything.  But I will still have a bit of prep, but hopefully will not have to bring any work home.

Some of the girls practising the Komuz

Anyway I am back in my old room so everything is scattered around. This room seems tiny compared with the temporary housing, but I am sure that it will be fine. I think that I am here till the end of the month and then the situation can be reviewed depending on the weather.  The last big group is here, from Sweden, their guide speaks some Russian, German, English and of course Swedish, his degree is in physics an he is also a business and IT specialist.   Some people are just astonishing. All the Swedes speak English so it has been very nice having them here.