Today we were up and ready to be picked up by San Martin and be dropped off at the school. We spoke with 12 yr. olds this morning. We had a good time. Eric and I are getting a routine. He makes this joke, I tell about the Columbia River and the return of the Salmon. He plays a guessing game with them about how many children we have. I do show and tell with the pictures of our family we have in a little purple album we brought. He tells another joke. and so on. Eric finds our farm on the Satilite pictures of Google maps. Everyone is amazed to see our farm.
We tell all about the container house San is building.
We even have a picture of a 20 ft. container that someone had turned into a little summer house along the Camino. We showed it to everybody. We explain about why there are so many cargo containers in the US. We talk about trade with China. We talk about President Obama. We tell them that our kids are still sleeping and it is yesterday there. We talk about time zones.
They had a big feast prepared for us. As it happens, we arrived on Pilgrim's day. There was a funny picture of a cartoon pilgrim in the newspaper. So we had about five kinds of empanadas, both sweet and savory. We were really amazed. They loaded us up with the leftovers and we are in heaven.
We were going to walk on this afternoon to Portas this afternoon and speak to classes tomorrow, but they have exams tomorrow and it would be better for them if we could come and talk with them this afternoon. So, the Kindergarten teacher said he would drive us to Portas.
So in the afternoon we spoke with the English class in Portas. We spoke with 14 to 17 years old today. By now we have spoken with hundreds of children.
The English teacher's name was Susana. She took us to view a beautiful falls near by and showed us the town. Then she drove us to the albergue in Briallos, the next stop. It isn't cheating because we have already walked more than the required kilometers for the Santiago since we started way down in Portugal.
At Briallos we met fellow pilgrims Ferman and Hobby from Vigo, Spain. They were walking from Tui to Santiago in 4 days. Fermin already had some evil blisters. I offered him some Mole skin, but he said he'd be OK. Ferman spoke a little English, but Eric could speak to him in Spanish. Hobby had a really Galacian accent with many words including the sound "th" in them. I could hear the difference right away. They were nice and we had good conversations with them. Ferman had a girlfriend in Britain named Allison. He was really in love with her and had been courting her for 6 years. But she had a career and didn't want to get to serious. Hobby had a wife and she was 5 months pregnant. He was pretty excited about the baby. So we learned a little about their lives. Later Ferman turned out to be a very good friend to us.
So tomorrow On to Caldas de Reis!
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