Sunday, September 11, 2005

a typical day

so, here´s a typical day for me. i wake up around 6, make my bed, tidy up the room, and then make an appearance in the kitchen so my host mother knows she can get my bath ready. I´m not talking about a regular bath here, i´m talking about a bucket bath. it entails a five gallon bucket, a small pail, some soap and moderately warm water, and me. pretty much i just dump water over myself with the small pail and then proceed to lather up. then i shave, every single day, and go to the kitchen for breakfast. i either get corn flakes in hot milk, or mosh. mosh is similar to oatmeal, but is more runny, and i don´t really know what is in it. it´s quite good, especially if you crumble up some bread and put it in there. breakfast usually includes a banana too. then i go out to meet the others in my city to walk to the training center. it´s about a half hour walk down what would be an interstate in the states, except the shoulder is more narrow and the fumes are more powerful. then we have spanish class from 7:30 to 11:30 with a 20 minute break. i have 4 people in my class, and it usually goes pretty fast. i get about 30 or 40 new words every day, which is semidaunting, but it´s going ok so far. then we have lunch from 11:30 to 12:30. all of our host mothers make us sack lunches, and there´s a lot of bartering and trading taking place. it´s pretty fun. then we either have a lecture on how we can get sick or robbed or some technical training. we conclude at 4:30 and walk back, uphill this time. then i study until supper which is at 8, then i study after supper, then go to bed at about 9 pm. josh, i could almost rival you in studying down here, it´s pretty unbelievable. it´s kind of easy though when you can´t understand anybody or what is on tv. so that´s my day, it is pretty fun. oh, they have "walker texas ranger", and "highlander" down here. i would have to say though, that walker texas ranger is actually better when you can´t understand what he is saying.

4 comments:

Julie said...

glad to hear you have learned to take showers.
at least you're not eating bacon. go mush.

Berne said...

Mush...yummy

I do like bananas though, maybe I'm a monkey

Lindsi said...

hahaha... that made me laugh out loud about walker texas ranger.

reading about your experience is inspirational, jake. i'm glad you decided to share it with the world.

Anonymous said...

I find it hard to believe that you shave everyday. You're a big fat liar. I bet you're staying at a fancy hotel being served by chimps.