Here is a rundown of a fairly light day. I just picked a random day last week and recorded how it went. Just a little bit of teaching and hanging out.
12:36 AM – Awake to hear my sister screaming, I think there was a bat in the hallway
8:10 AM – Awake to the sound of my alarm. Hit snooze button.
8:20 AM – Awake to the sound of my alarm. Hit snooze button.
8:30 AM – Awake to the sound of my alarm. Hit snooze button.
8:40 AM – Awake to the sound of my alarm. Hit snooze button.
8:50 AM – Awake to the sound of my alarm. Hit snooze button.
9:00 AM – Awake to the sound of my alarm. Hit snooze button.
9:10 AM – Awake to the sound of my alarm. Hit snooze button.
9:20 AM – Awake to the sound of my alarm. Hit snooze button.
9:30 AM – Awake to the sound of my alarm. Bucket bath. Get dressed and ready.
10:00 AM – Check emails, Facebook, and discussion boards for grad school.
10:10 AM – Look over what I’m teaching today. Grade some papers.
11:00 AM – Stop by faculty lounge. Say hi to a few teachers. Grab chai and a Blue Band sandwich.
11:10 AM – First lesson of the day. Form 2. Its a double, meaning two 40 minute blocks. Discussing different means of transportation and how they relate to business and shipping of goods. Get in to a discussion later in the class about travelling to and from America, and then travelling in America. The kids are more responsive and active today than normal.
12:30 PM – Second lesson. Form 4. Go over various documents used in international trade. Extremely boring topic. The kids (and I am) pretty bored. At least one was dazing off. Got better as we started to move into international financial institutions. Introduced the IMF to them. Realized I’m probably the first person to talk to them about it. I remember the various classes I learned about it in and how each one introduced it in a different light, some good, some bad, some objective. Made me think about how I talk about it.
1:10 PM – Talked with the other Business Studies teacher about classes and told her I would bring her some material on fish ponds to help with her fish pond.
1:15 PM – Got back home, made myself pasta with some marinara sauce I picked up in Kisumu the weekend before.
2:00 PM – Walked a few kilometers to the main road to get a matatu to town (Webuye). Waited for a bit before one with room came by. Trip cost 30 Kenyan shillings or ksh (under 50 cents).
2:45 PM – Got to town. Checked PO box for mail. One letter from a high school friend, an invite to her marriage (congrats Erin and Skip). Got a 5 pack of Indomie instant noodles (Indian top ramen, 90 ksh), some Cadbury chocolate with caramel (125 ksh), and credit for my phone (500 ksh). Got in a matatu to go back, it took 45 minutes to get loaded up before leaving.
4:30 - PM Got off in the small market center of Lugulu. Ride cost 40 ksh. Walked a few kilometers home.
5:00 PM - Graded more papers. While watching the Office on my computer.
6:00 PM – Did some reading on online dispute resolution and culture for grad school.
7:00 PM – Dinner prepared by my sisters. Pasta and some beef stew. Ate it while watching translated Mexican soap opera with the family. Was also reading my Economist.
8:00 PM – Alternated between solitaire on the computer, watching the office, grad school work, and grading papers for a bit.
12:00 PM Finally went to sleep.
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