The last of the Nova Scotian snowbirds

We haven’t had any big events, but the time seems to go by very quickly.
This Sunday only the twins, Dariana and Dareli, came. Fatima has not been feeling very well this week, according to Elvia; certainly, she didn’t act like her usual ebullient self. I noticed that she had a number of red spots on her face. In any case, she didn’t want to come. Usually, she has been the first to rush to the car. We did have a bit of a problem early in the afternoon with Dareli. For no apparent reason she started to cry and then had a major temper tantrum. We had experienced this once before. She carried on for quite a while and we tried to ignor her. When she quieted down, Barb got her (we had put her in the spare bedroom); she soon was fine. During the tantrum, Dariana had played by herself in the pool. Later, Dareli wanted her swim suit on and the two of them played in the pool for another hour. Kate and Jack had come over, and the girls were good as gold (the photo shows Jack holding the two girls). We had, as usual, given them some ice cream and cookies and when they were tired of the pool, we got out the colouring books and crayons that Wendy had brought from Nova Scotia. We didn’t try to get them to take a nap. Thus, I expect that they went to sleep very early tonight.
Kate and Jack are getting ready to make the return to Nova Scotia next Saturday. They are the last of the Nova Scotians that we know who are returning. Things will be very different from what they have been the past 6 months with everyone gone. Unlike last year, we don’t expect many visitors this year in the summer. My friend Johnny, from San Diego (soon he is moving back to Las Vegas), may be coming in August; however, his plans are still in flux.

I am still teaching one course during the fall and winter semesters. The exams were written on Thursday, April 9th, but with the Easter weekend, they were not sent until Tuesday. According to the tracking online, they arrived in Guadalajara airpost last Friday. However, they have not been delivered to me yet, even though the airport is less than 40 kms away. I am hoping that they arrive tomorrow as I need to grade them and get the course marks in. A number of the class are potential graduates in the May convocation. Once that is finished, I shall be more or less free until September (I’ll have to do a bit of updating for the upcoming course, but that doesn’t need to be done until later in the summer.) The free time will be good because I have not been doing as much work on learning Spanish as I should. I do attend the conversation class on Saturday morning and I am comprehending more and more as I listen.