Once again I'm blessed with internet access, and my mind has gone completely blank. I don't have much to report.

A day before Thanksgiving it snowed, so my village looks very clean and pristine. Teaching is awesome; I'm kinda good at it. I love my kids, so that hasn't changed. I haven't had much time to myself, which explains why I haven't been able to prepare anything for blog postage. I haven't really had time to write in my journal at all, either. Sorry, friends. I know the letters have been sparce lately. Maybe things will slow down a bit in the next few weeks. I'm in serious need of "me" time. Here in this collective society, I'm afraid that just isn't going to happen any time soon.

I'm currently working 2 english clubs in separate schools, and also doing a bit of work in a small independent college in my village. I'm never bored. Here is my basic routine:

I wake up at 6:00 every morning, eat a breakfast which usually consists of jam, bread, and chai, and leave for school around 6:45. The bus I used to take to school was old and on its last leg; it died recently. Now I walk a mile to school every day. It's actually quite nice, especially since it snowed. It's a very quiet walk (if I'm not swarmed by children on the way to school... hasn't happened much since the weather became cold) and the snow glows very prettily in the twilight. I've never lived anywhere with seasons, so winter and fall are still fairly novel to me. It takes about an hour to get to school.

Classes begin at 8:00. I typically teach four or five 45 minute long lessons a day, but some days I teach as many as 7. Some days I have English club, some days I have private tutoring with students, and some days I hang out with other young people who don't attend the school where I teach. I get home around 4:00 or 5:00, after a taxing walk through the slush and ice. I take a short chai break and discuss the day's proceedings with family. I then plan lessons for the next day until dinner time, which takes place roughly at 7:30. Afterward, I lesson/club plan until I fall asleep... I usually never finish before the next day because I'm a perfectionist when it comes to visual aides (I make them all myself to use in every lesson).

So, yeah. I'm already on the brink of insanity. Sometimes the busy-ness is a good thing. Sometimes it's a headache. I'm still trying to balance things out. I can't even really call my routine a routine, as it is very inconsistent. I feel like I am always walking walking walking and never getting anywhere. It's my understanding that this is a common problem for PCV's. I really didn't think it would be that way for me as well. The fact that I live so far away from my school doesn't help either.

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