It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity

June 28, 2010 at 2:25 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments

So I found my thermometer the other day, and I realized how hot it actually  was.  Even though it’s the reainy season and it is like90 at night, it usually doesn’t feel that bad.  You just get used to sweating.  A lot.  And now I sleep outside, but it’s hard with the whole family out there because my little brother cries a lot at night.  Ca va aller.

So I have been here for ong enought to have a typical day.  Which in and of itself is exciting.  When I have some semblance of a routine on small norlal things like shozering, eating, class, it makes it easier to learn the new stuff.  Like how to prepare to (boil water, add a flour, let gel)

0600 Wake up.  I get up usually around 4 if I hear the call to prayer, or sometime between 4 and 6 because the court yard gets busy.

0600 – 0630 Shower.  The shower usually works in the morning so I don’t alzays have to take a bucket bath.

0630 – 0645 Dress, mov emy bike outside, sweep my room.  My room gets really sandy really quickly.

0645 – 0700 Fill the water filter so I have stuff to drink when I get home.

0700 – 0730 Breakfast is usually a piece of bread with instant coffee.  It’s usually flavored with chickory.  I have no idea what that is.

0730 – 0745 Bike to center from my host family house.  Have children yell good evening, la blanche, nasara, all sorts of things.

0745 – 0800 Recount the evening with other stagaiars.

We have four blocks of class, 0800 – 1000, 1030 – 1230, 1400 – 1530, and 1545 – 1715.  Two (at least) are language, one is usually technical, and we might have a med session thrown in.  Language gets exhausting because even if we aren’t in class we  are still working on french all the time.  Tech classes are usually about teaching.  I have my first teaching session in french on Friday.

1230 – 01400 Lunch.  Always a trip to find food.  Somletimes we go to marche to get veggies, other times we go to a restaurant.

1530 – 1900 Hang out in the courtyard with my family and the other people who live in out courtyard.

1900 – 1930 Dinner.  My family makes some great food, even if it isn’t always something I would eat in the US.

1930 – 2100 – Talk with my host family.  Watch soccer.  My host dad thinks Argentina is going to win.  I tell him I’m rooting for Ghana now and he laughs at me.

2100 – 0600 Bed.

I got my first mail on friday!  It was frol amanda. It had quite the extensive list to complete this month.