Volunteering to talk non-stop

Hi I am still travelling in Spain and finished my week volunteering Vaughan Town and it´s taken me a week to get over it! A mixture of tiredness, picking up a cold, and really missing the people I met. It´s amazing how strong bonds between people can become in a week.

I can´t upload any photos here for you but you can check them out if you want to see if you can spot me.
It wasn´t so much a course for the spaniards as an English immersion prgramme which included lots of rain and english humour and talking. There are no classes just non stop conversational sessions, lots of Monthy Python (Montee Peeton in Spanish!) sketches and Karaoke. They get to talk with us, a variety of volunteers from the US, Oz and UK.
What amazing bunch of people the Spaniards are though. They spoke nothing but English for six days to a load of strangers. At first a little reserved, suspicious or both, of us possible football hooligans or costa-louts, they seemed like serious english speaking robots (not surprisingly) but after a couple of days their individual personalities started to come out to play. Their humour, their little quirks, eccentricities and sweetness and playfulness and we all began to bond like UHU.
I know how difficult they must have found it because I´ve been travelling around Spain since leaving there using my not bad, but fairly limited Spanish a la perdiz. It´s made me realise how difficult it is really conveying what sort of person you are in another language, or expressing what you really believe and think.
Massive respect hombres!
By the end of the week it really felt we were getting to know each other well, some new freindships made and I hope we keep in touch.
Conversations with Strange (Spanish) men to follow David. Patience!