Yesterday I went to 2 of my favourite places in the evening. The first place I went to was La Flor de la Esquina - I particularly like this place because it serves nice sandwiches and is good when I am not too hungry. The beers there cost €1,80 for about half a pint, but as an added bonus they come with a free sandwich (in a bread roll, big enough to eat in about 4 bites). I've had all sorts of free sandwiches there before: Ham and tomato; black olive and anchovy; smoked salmon; and tonight I got a free 'mixto' which has ham and cheese in it. I also ordered a ham and tomato sandwich which is one of my favourites because the ham (jamon iberico) in Spain is probably the best ham you can get in the whole world! Trust me - I'm not exaggerating.

After that I walked to another place and had a couple of beers and chatted to the waiter a bit about my time in Toledo, and returned home around midnight.

Today in class we had a slightly longer break because it was Friday, and we went to a nice restaurant called 'com.es' for breakfast. I had a tosta con jamon - more ham! It was also the last day of the course for Jeremy and the American family, so now I am the only student in the school. For the next 2 weeks it looks like it is just going to be me and Christina which is no problem at all. I think that having individual lessons instead of group lessons is going to have advantages and disadvantages: It's going to be good because I obviously get more attention in class and things will move along at exactly the right pace for me, but I will miss out on some of the fun group activities that we have been doing.

The last few days with Jeremy have been really fun because we have been playing a board game at the end of each session, where you have to move around the board and conjugate verbs in the past tense. It's funny because I normally am slightly better than Jeremy (although I think he caught up with me today) but I always lose points by being too cocky and trying something too complicated. At the same time I always pretend that it is a deadly serious competition and that I really want to win, when in reality it's clear that I don't care (for example when I cheat and help Jeremy).

I think it would be ideal to have 2 hours of group lessons a day and 2 hours by myself, but either way the difference is only marginal and I think it's still going to be a lot of fun because Christina is really easy to talk to.

When I got home today I had some really nice food, but I can't remember what it was called. For the starter I had a dish that had roasted vegetables (peppers and aubergines and onions - I think), hard boiled eggs and anchovies. It was really good! For the main course I had a beef steak and some bread. I had watermelon for desert.

After lunch I watched a bit of TV but somehow Paula got hold of the remote control and insisted on changing the channel every few seconds. I had good fun trying to get it off of her but in the end I always let her win. Afterwards we both came upstairs and played on my computer for a bit, and then she went off to shower, which is just as well because there was no way I could have written this with her in the room! It's all good fun though.

In an hour I am meeting with Fernando for my intercambio. I know nothing about him except that he is about my age and is learning English, and that his level of English is slightly higher than my Spanish. It will be interesting to see what happens as I have never done anything like this before. I think we are just going to go to a bar and have a few beers.

Also in case anyone is interested: The film I watched yesterday was called Pagafantas.