Meeting in the girls' dining hall, we start with some simple phrases.
Here's the class picture, with teacher and teacher's assistant.
Another surprising lunch, pasta with shaved mozzarella, covered in red sauce with meat (ground chicken).
After lunch, we return to the Carpenteria, a good source for reminders of the relationship between investment in equipment and productivity. Our paint sprayers only last a few beams between refills. If we had higher capacity sprayers, or even additional paint reservoirs to swap out, we could paint more beams in the same amount of time. But there isn't always money for such investments. For another example, both the old radial arm saws in the shop are in need of repair, so the beams have been cut to length with a circle saw.
Supper is soup and tortillas; no problem, I'm still full from that lunch.
Some of our group congregates on the upstairs veranda afterward. One of this year's group was born in Mexico and the discussion turns to regional variations in Spanish. In Mexico, peanut was cacahuate [ca-ca-wa'-te]. Here, some say, what elsewhere is a word for peanut butter, manilla [ma-ni'-ya], is the word for peanut. This lead to a Klepto manilla joke, but you had to be there.
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