I have been so busy I have not had time to keep as up-to-date on the blog as I would have liked to. I’ll rewind to last week first: I had to spend the week wearing glasses which many of you know I hate! I managed to lose one of my contact lenses in my eye and when it came out it had snapped so I had to go to the opticians to check it wasn’t in my eye. Thankfully it wasn’t but I had scratched my eye looking for it so was banned from contacts for...

This week has been fascinating. I have got to know the boys (I call them boys but they are really young men) so well and I learn as much from them as they do from me. I have taken the lead in teaching them English grammar from some exercise books we found in the house. So far I, along with Amy and Craig have taught them the past and present tense and orders and requests. My immaculately prepared German lessons from school have stayed with me and I’m using a...