Wednesday, January 27, 2010

A Day in the Life...

We had a request for what our daily life looks like here, so here it is!

If we have school:

6:00/6:30 – wake up, get ready, personal time, breakfast

7:30ish – to school… 25 min walk or by bus or 10 min bike ride

8:00 – 11:30 – class – Reading, Writing, Listening, or Speaking

two a day w/10 min breaks and slightly relaxed beginning and end times

11:30 – lunch at the cafeteria, a restaurant, or home

12:30… Afternoons could include any combination of the following

hanging out w/students – ping pong, coffee/tea, shopping, basketball, movies, Chinese chess, etc.

shopping for groceries – possibly not all at the same place

shopping/hunting for whatever other random item we need like a guitar, heater, oven, etc.

studying for an hour or two

baking, cleaning, doing laundry and hang drying it

going to the gym

running (really walking, taking the bus, or biking) other random errands like to the p.o. or the yarn shop

computer work like budget, e-mail, and letters

5:00 – 7:00 – somewhere in there have dinner

7:00... Evenings vary. They could include…

meeting students to study or hang out

our own date night

some marriage time

Skype time

any of the afternoon activities listed above

10:00ish – to bed!

Weekends: Saturdays usually try to hang out. Sundays usually have a day of rest.

Right now we’re on winter break, so our schedule is a little different. We still try to be up by 7:00 or 8:00. In the mornings we have some personal time, work out, Skype and study. In the afternoons we each have our own things we’re working on like deep cleaning the apartment, making a video of our life here, meeting with our tutor, updating our blog, writing Christmas thank yous, and E’s taking a class online.

So that’s our life! I personally like to be a scheduled person, but I’ve had to become much more flexible here. No day is the same, and people here don’t really plan more than a couple days ahead of time. It’s good for me, right?!

2 comments:

  1. I see you mentioned chinese chess. Do your friends play chinese checkers? Like the one we had when we were little?
    PW

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  2. You know, a friend and I were at a cafe and they had a set of "chinese checkers" on the table - little magnetic ones! She didn't know how to play, but she said she had seen them before.

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