La Madrecita and Carmen in 1998 Carmen was a favourite of the Madrecita . No, Dad I wasn't. She loved everyone. Yes, you were. I was there. You were one of her favourites. Tere found the school while I was in the UK looking for work. She had to work too, and the first school they found was awful. She had to leave Eve there when she was very little. Eve used to wail she didn't want to go. Previously all three children had been to good schools. A school called CIPO , a Montessori School in Guadalajara, and then, when CIPO closed, they went to a Waldorf school run by Tere's cousin Beatrice . Eve was there when she was one, barely a toddler. A memory will stay with me for ever from that school. We went to the opening day. The walls were draped with cloths in beautiful yellows and russets - silk cotton and wool. There were interesting wooden toys tidied away and baskets full of coloured objects. And the children began to sing to us spontaneously, joyously, movingly.
Left wing commentary from the heart and the head