7:00 am – Wake up and get ready for the day.
7:45 am – Arrive at Common Grounds and realize my skype date is actually for tomorrow. The idea of coffee and alone time to start my day sounds incredible so I decide to stay for awhile.
8:45 am – Head back to the house, more Misty Edwards. 🙂
9:00 am – Arrive at home for breakfast.
9:30 am – Finish team breakfast and head upstairs to hand wash my clothes.
10:45 am – Realize I need to stop washing clothes and get a lesson ready for English class.
11:00 am– Teach my intermediate English class for university students. Try to explain the meanings of simple and complex carbohydrates, calories, protein and nutritionist. Think to myself that I really should have skipped that exercise.
12:00 pm – Finish washing my laundry and head to the restaurant down the street for lunch. ($1.50 for noodles with chicken and vegetables!)
1:30 pm – Head to the village for the afternoon. We teach English and Bible stories and hang out with the kids. We take an absolutely adorable picture of Srey Lim wearing sunglasses. I also teach Wat Map and Souet to say “little punk”. I feel guilty, but only briefly. They teach me to say grandfather and grandmother (thaw and yay).
4:30 pm – Arrive home and a few minutes later head to Common Grounds to teach a keyboarding class. Courtney teaches the class while I head to the bus ticket/bicycle rental shop to buy bus tickets to Phnom Penh for the weekend. This doesn’t take as long as anticipated so I head back to the coffee shop and chat with the staff and fool around on facebook while waiting for Courtney. In fact, I talk to Courtney on facebook chat for most of the time.
6:00 pm – Courtney finishes supervising the class and we head to Angkor Market to get Dr. Pepper and chocolate croissants for Courtney and iced tea and brownies for me. It is a beautiful moment in both of our lives.
6:30 pm – Arrive home to a delicious dinner on the table. Talk about our possible ministry locations for Ghana while we eat.
7:30 pm – Amy and I head to Common Grounds (yes, that’s the third time today!) to close up for the night. We talk about how effective time “around the kitchen table is” and then discuss (sadly, in seriousness) what proportion coffee and tea contribute to its effectiveness.
9:00 pm – Back at home, I decide to finally get some exercise. I do P90X for about ten minutes before I feel like I’m going to die and then decide to run back and forth on the driveway (it’s night so I can’t go anywhere).
9:17 pm – Briefly consider whether or not it’s safe to sweat this much and wonder if exercise is really doing more harm than good.
9:30 pm – Get really, really bored with the 30 meter driveway and decide to be done exercising.
9:32 pm – Lay on the floor, hoping the tile will somehow cool me down.
9:35 pm – I decide to write this blog!
9:50 pm – I finish writing the blog and head into my room to brush my teeth. I end up brushing my teeth for ten minutes because Amy starts telling me a God story and I get distracted. The topic of conversation quickly deteriorates from the Holy Spirit to our best stories about farting. (only on the World Race…)
10:25 pm – I’m about to go hang out with Jesus (and eat my brownie!) and then I’m off to bed so I can be up in time for my actual skype date! 🙂
