I have a longer post I'm working on, but I thought I would give a flavor of how long we spend in transport daily and why you don't hear from me often.
6 am-7:20 Wake up, eat breakfast, pack school lunches and head to a friend's house 2 blocks away where the kids' get a ride to school.
7:30-8:05 Walk from our hill down to the balad and up another hill to our school
8:15-12:15 Arabic classes (three classes total. Two spoken Arabic and one class written Arabic)
12:15-12:45 Walk down to the balad and catch a servees up our hill
12:45-2:00 Study, catch up on housework, shop for food for dinner
2:00-3:45 Walk through the balad to catch a minibus out to the kids' school. Pick up our kids and our friends' kids. Catch a taxi home from the kids' school.
4:00-6:00 Prep dinner, look at kids' schoolwork and homework
6:00-8:00 Clean up from dinner, maybe shower kids, Arabic homework
8:00-10:00 Study and relax with Jason if I'm lucky
Wash, rinse, repeat, 5 days a week.
1 comment:
I wish that I could walk along with you. As you are walking along in "yellow", are you able to have your mind elsewhere or is it necessary for you to be so alert that you cannot be "in your head".
Another blog idea that I had is to try and describe the tastes of some of the new foods that you are eating.
Getting cold here. Had bible study at our home last night with a fire in both stoves.
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