typical day, typical weekend (as experienced so far)


<-- my room, at night - (apologies for the clothes everywhere - just finished laundry - it's drying)

10 to 6 am: someone laying on the horn outside my window. every morning. i get up about 20 minutes later.
breakfast: wheetabix and fernleaf full-cream instant powdered milk
water: fill bottles from clean water supply. we think one jug looks a little like a totem figure, so we gave it a headband and a feather.
bus to hospital: still having trouble deciding whether the caller is pointing straight or sideways as the bus comes rushing at me around the corner at about 50 kph, but i'm getting faster at calling them over to ask - hand out and down, NOT up.
walk to hospital: HOT, even at 7:30, but i'm getting used to it. it's maybe 5 minutes, and i go SLOWLY
Hospital: i'm doing social work, pre-test counselling patients having HIV testing (really just educating about HIV/AIDS) and learning elementary finance to keep track of grant money spent in a variety of ways.
Lunch: about 4 servings of rice and tiny, exotic cuts of chicken, usually (i think i got a piece of neck today - lots of tiny bones, probably vertebral column)
bus home: different route, different questions, different things to be aware of. another short walk down my street to the flat.
jogging/walking on the sea wall (pictures coming soon)
cooking dinner
reading (Harry Potter books 4&5 mostly, lately - if anyone wants to send #6, i'm hooked!)
dropping into bed, exhausted.
car noises start to diminsh around 10 pm.