lynnxa

just stuck my head out of the window to tell the Spanish kids to be a bit quieter - after all 3-5pm is supposed to be Siesta

I'm glad I looked before I opened my mouth.......it was my older dd!!

I didn't even recognise her voice


she is now the loudest SPANISH kid around

Rosemary

She is so INTEGRATED and so NORMAL.

Rosemary

crispy

As Rosemary said she is now truly Spanish normal is very loud or if we're lucky not quite so loud......Have you ever been in the coffee shop at 5pm when all the women arrive for coffee, cake and a chat now that is loud

But I am so please that the girls have fitted in and are really at home, it must be really satisfying for you to see them at play and know that you have done the right thing.

jeanc

Ka Ora!

Our daughter is three months old ive already bought a shotgun monday im of out for a Glock 37 handgun no boyfriends till shes 50 or im dead

lynnxa

join my hubby

what is it about dads?

Ka Ora!

Well our little one is so sweet loverly i know what i get up to with my wife no ones doing that to her...............blugh

lynnxa

yeah that's what he says.......

seems like 3 months was yesterday - they are 7 (nearly 8) & 11 now

Ka Ora!

I know how you feel our boy is five now up until three months ago he was still a baby to us he seemed to get bigger and everything overnight

silverchick

How long have you been in Spain? just wondering how long it'll take a quite outgoing 8 year old to settle in like your daughter!

lynnxa

we've been here 3.5 years, but they spent the first year in an english school.

older dd learned a bit of spanish there - not enough for a conversation though - younger one learned none

now they've been at Spanish school for 7 terms at the end of this one (3 a year just like in england) and they prefer to play with spanish kids

jeanc

wish we had had the money to do it 6 or 7 years ago when the kids would have just "got on with it " like kids do.. Your children now have the best of both worlds and chances of very good jobs when they leave school. Bet you're very proud of them

lynnxa

absotively

jwac21

The trouble is with the Spanish it does not mean that they will get good jobs There are lots of very talented English kids that have gone through the system and ended up in dead end jobs because the Spanish just do not accept them. Know I now that this is not the same all over but if you live outside the main Towns and cities more in the rural areas and Spanish coastal then there is a double standard. And quite frankly the average Spanish pay is crap When my kids grow up they will take what they have learned especially the language and get jobs in England or America not here in Spain.

jeanc

And that's what i meant. translators charge about £40.00 per hour. When we enquired about spanish lessons for a tutor to come to our home it was $45.00 per hour not bad going.