Waiting or class

I shopped in the morning and went to the bank as they still haven't got their heads around the fact that I am no longer non résident and have sent the new cheque book to England.  I sorted things out and they will now send out a new one.  Nicole was not up to coming to French so three of us English sat in the courtyard and set about the unnatural task of talking to each other in French. J., whose French is not yet fluent, said it helped her as we could talk more slowly and explain things that sometimes went over her head at the normal meetings.