That's it...I have done it now......

Well the contract (of sorts) is signed. Or rather the two pieces of paper that the estate agents wrote herself the night before and really doesn't have much on it is signed. I think it is more of a case that it is an agreement between me and the landlord and if broken my name would be mud in these here parts forever. He took a deposit and we shook hands and signed. He is a very nice and honest looking ex teacher who is retired and seems a really nice man. He will teach me to look after the pool and water the land and he has said we can have all the fruit we want and salad and other produce from his other house too. He seems sweet, but talks very fast!! He just talks at me like I can understand every word. So we go up to the house next week again to have another look around and take some pics for you guys. I can then try and remember what is there and what I need from England. We went to the park again last night and did the activities. We also went to visit another family today who home educate  five year old boy here. I am trying to slow down, but there seems to be something every day to do. We are off to the market again tomorrow and hope to then have a few days of nothing...We will see.

This is the park in Lanjaron where we do the crafts and chat with other mums. (Or just listen mostly!)

And this is Lanjaron.

This is the view from the camp site we are in now.

So the count down begins until we can move into the house. we move in on the 12th and it will be wired not having all our stuff over here. It will be very good to get into a house though and we will really have had enough of the caravan by then. It is hot here now, however we are lucky that where the caravan is there is a breeze nearly every afternoon. We went to visit the local Steiner school here yesterday. It is a tiny school (not legal here yet) run out of three large yurt like structures. They don't have many children and it isn't very organised. As the Montessori only goes up the age 6, maybe there would be room for a decent run provision here? I am thinking though it would be better to teach English as a after school thing to local children and maybe on a Saturday, and then just home educate ours during the week. This would give us more time together as a family and still hopefully provide the income that we need to get by on. I think this is what I will try first. I will wait until we are back in October and then set it up and advertise. There are loads of boards, shops, and places that I can advertise for free here and I will approach the local school s when they start back too. Until I have all my teaching stuff from England I don't want to start here as I want to look as professional as I can from the start as reputation is everything here. If I can get it right from the start it will work. If not people just won't come. So now we wait. I will try and keep meeting local people and have been invited to a choir meeting on Friday evening. I can take the children and they only speak in Spanish. It will be good for me and I will get to meet some more people. Plodding on with forging a new life for my family, where hopefully my husband can join us and we can all be together in the sun....plodding, plodding, plodding......