Dancing Through Life

Dancing through life

Swaying and sweeping

And always keeping cool

Life is fraughtless

When you're thoughtless

Those who don't try

Never look foolish

Dancing through life

Mindless and careless

Make sure your where less

Trouble is rife

Woes are fleeting

Blows are glancing

When you're dancing

Through life...

Well its time for a blog post and I decided that it was time to do the classic blog post: un dia en mi vida (a day in my life). For reasons mostly revolving around the fact that I don’t have a typical weekend day (or at least haven’t yet) I am going to do the best to summarize a typical weekday.

5:40- If I have to take a “shower” this morning I roll my butt out of bed and head down stairs to put a hug pot of water on the stove.

5:41-5:59 Chill… sleep, watch TV, or go on face book till the pot of water is nice and hot for my “shower”.

6:00- One of two things are happening.

1)    I am carrying my huge pot of water up stairs and poring it into a tub of cold water that it will mix with to make a semi warm bucket bath

2)    My alarm goes off and I scramble to find it while my host sister (who often sleeps next to me because my beds bigger, and really I don’t enjoy sleeping in a twin bed alone, to much empty space, and we chat (to the best of our ability) till we go to bed. Its quite nice actually) wakes up and we both decided its to early.

6:08ish- I am either

1)    Getting out of the shower and heading back into my room to get Vicky (my host sister) out of bed.

2)    Dragging my butt out of bed and getting moving.

6:08-6:40- I get dressed in my uniform, straighten my bangs if I took a shower that morning (if not a pony tail is always in order), and all that good stuff. I also do 5 minuets of core every morning… exercise is so not prevalent here so this is my way of doing something small to say semi a little bit in shape.

6:40- Run downsairs with my backpack because I am always late.

6:40-6:47- Eat a piece of bread and drink a cup of “aguawita” or instant coffee, what ever is given to me that morning. 

6:47-get a call from Giulia my cousin who walks to school with us (Vicky and me) and we head down the two flights of stairs to street level where we meet up with her and do “hola’s” and “que tals” and of course the typical kiss on the cheek.

6:47-7:00- Walk to school and chat about how our last night was and how much we are not looking forward to whatever double periods we happen to have that day.

7:00-7:40- First class. (This changes by the day but for sake of you and I not going crazy with my full schedule we are going to use a Tuesday.) English… this is one of three things for me; a letter writing class, a class that I get to practice my reading aloud, very slowly, skills as I end up reading most of the text book, or a class that I get to practice my (possibly) future profession as a teacher because I end up teaching most of the material and translating a heck of a lot.

7:40-8:20- Second class. Physical Education. Tuesdays are good days for me because I have P.E. Now I am not saying that I enjoy endless basketball drills and marching. But I do get to wear my P.E. uniform all day, and for those of you who know me… pants are 100 times better then a skirt. So it’s a good day.

8:20-9:00- Third class. Computers. Now when I first heard this I thought I was going to be simple. Given that most people here don’t have access to computers a lot I thought I was going to be typing and such. But no, when they say computers they mean programming, and I don’t know computer talk in English… in Spanish… fun. But at least we get to have partners because there aren’t enough computers for us all, so that helps a ton and a half.

9:00-9:20- First Break. This means a snack of some sort; typically kids in my class are selling food that the money is going towards our end of the year graduation trip.

9:20-10:00-Physics… not too much to say about this. Its physics…

10:00-11:20- Double investigation. This is a class where we talk about different things everyday. I don’t know the main theme of the class… I haven’t been able to figure that out yet. Hah.

11:20-11:40- Second break. More food, chatting, last minuet homework.

11:40-12:20- Vocational orientation. This is a class meant to prepare the oldest grade for leaving school and heading out into the real world. We talk about different types of people and different jobs.

12:20-1:00- Drawing, this is not a normal art class. This is a class devoted to drawing buildings and their interiors. Its hard, but a good change of pace.

1:00-School is over… or it was over way before this, because we get out early probably about half the days for some reason or another. School assemblies, thunder, no water… anything.

1:00-2:00- Lunch of soup, rice, some sort of meat and a small savory salad with the family.

2:00-3:00- I normally just end up chilling in my room. Skype, facebook, journal, blog, whatever needs doing.

3:00-6:30- I head out with friends, go visit family, or do homework. I try to get out and do stuff because it’s a lot more fun then just chilling at home, but some times that opportunity doesn’t present its self.

7:00-8:00- Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays… I head out to the equivalent of Ecuadorian Zumba. An Ecuadorian dance workout class. It’s a fun time and it exercise that I can do with others and feel good about.

8:00- Dinner- almost always leftovers from lunch.

8:30-9:30- Watch movies or chill with the family. They also really like to take car rides around the city. My brother drives and much engine gunning and smelly car go on. Haha.

9:30- Bed, I get Vicky and we head off to bed. An early morning is coming.

That is a summery of my day… as average as they get. It never actually goes like this, but for sake of this blog post this is a good summery. Love and miss you all.

Livin’ Life on the Loose.