Apologies for stopping midday, but at least now you get a glimpse of how our 2-3 hours go after we finally arrive at the orphanage. We always plan to leave at 4:30pm, but it rarely happens. We've concluded that instead of asking the tias if it's okay for us to leave and offering any excuse to leave on time, we're just going to tell them we're leaving, end of story.
After we leave the orphanage, we walk the same miserable 15-20 minutes (we get slower as the day goes on) back down the highway to the bus stop usually going over the days events at the orphanage. Today's discussion involved much more despair and frustration than normal. I believe my comment was, "I don't want to go back." We eventually flag down a bus, pay our 40 cents, collapse in two seats, and endure the long, long ride back downtown--complete with seemingly pointless dallying at certain bus stops and an enormous amount of rush hour traffic. When we finally get off the bus, it's another 10ish minute walk home.
One of us starts dinner while the other hops in the shower, then we switch. Dinner gets eaten pretty soon thereafter, and we have the rest of the night to return to studying Spanish or posting on the blog as it would seem. We're ready for bed at 8:00pm, but usually make it to 10:00pm, which you may calculate given the previous post, is a whooping 10.5 hours of sleep. Yet, even this past Monday where I actually slept for 11.5 hours, I still managed a 1.5 hour nap during the day while Andy read.
So that's our typical weekday schedule, riveting I realize. If I had to turn our typical day into a formula it would be: weekday = anticipation + at attention + exhaustion2
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