A description of what a typical day for me looks like:
5:00am - crow caws on top of my hut for ten minutes then moves on to its next victim
6:30am - wake up, fish out whatever reptile fell into my toilet, have a cup of tea and bananas (they are much smaller here)
7:00am - yoga (I am such a cynic)
8:30am - breakfast (my craving for sugar has resulted in about a pound of jam on my toast in the morning)
9:30am - rehearsal starts; I sit there and take notes on direction to learn, try to guess what is being said in Dari, and occasionally give my opinion on what needs to change to make a clearer/more effective
1:30pm - lunch (chapati, Indian bread, is too good)
2:00pm - break because it is the hottest part of the day (I usually go to my room and write and drink tea)
3:00pm - rehearsal again, usually perfecting the scene we worked on that day
5:00pm - the director’s son comes home from school so I hang out with him for an hour while rehearsal finishes, which is basically babysitting but I’m ok with it after sitting on my arse all day and hey, I’m the assistant director. It’s what we do.
6:00pm - rehearsal finishes, I muck around on the interwebz trying to reconnect with Canadian news and work on subtitling for the performances
7:30pm - dinner (more chapati)
8:30pm - LOL K BEDTIME (I retire to my hut and awkwardly position myself under the stream of cold water to have what I think I used to call a “shower”)
9:00pm - write some more, read a bit, practice my river dancing
10:00pm - sprawl out on my bed, positioning myself so that I get maximum coolage from the ceiling fan
10:01pm - dream of chapati
I’ve also definitely lost weight while I’m here. At school this year I gained I think 5 or 6 pounds, which was mostly just muscle mass to add to my already bulging physique (eh ladies?) and it’s gone. I think it’s a combination of the sweat, the vegetarian diet, and the complete lack of anything sweet. I’ve doubled the sugar intake in my tea to a quarter of a teaspoon to curb my cravings. My mom also packed me Skittles for the plane ride which I didn’t start eating until yesterday... and I’ve figured out that if I ration them to 5 per day, it will last until the Indian tour starts. It’s good. It’s discipline.
LaShonda has started working again. I don’t know what was wrong with her, but she just didn’t want to find the internet. So that’s why last post was all one paragraph - my iPod didn’t recognize the returns apparently.
Speaking of the aforementioned Indian tour, I calculated that I am going to take nine plane rides during this trip. My past total number of plane rides was thirteen I think. I might be missing a layover in there but I don’t think I am. SO YEAH. So much plane.
Pictures will arrive shortly. I still don’t feel as if I’ve taken enough good ones to show everyone. They will come though. I promise. I’ll put a few on the blog and then rest on Facebook, so if we aren’t friends yet just add me so that you’ll be able to see them all.
5:00am - crow caws on top of my hut for ten minutes then moves on to its next victim
6:30am - wake up, fish out whatever reptile fell into my toilet, have a cup of tea and bananas (they are much smaller here)
7:00am - yoga (I am such a cynic)
8:30am - breakfast (my craving for sugar has resulted in about a pound of jam on my toast in the morning)
9:30am - rehearsal starts; I sit there and take notes on direction to learn, try to guess what is being said in Dari, and occasionally give my opinion on what needs to change to make a clearer/more effective
1:30pm - lunch (chapati, Indian bread, is too good)
2:00pm - break because it is the hottest part of the day (I usually go to my room and write and drink tea)
3:00pm - rehearsal again, usually perfecting the scene we worked on that day
5:00pm - the director’s son comes home from school so I hang out with him for an hour while rehearsal finishes, which is basically babysitting but I’m ok with it after sitting on my arse all day and hey, I’m the assistant director. It’s what we do.
6:00pm - rehearsal finishes, I muck around on the interwebz trying to reconnect with Canadian news and work on subtitling for the performances
7:30pm - dinner (more chapati)
8:30pm - LOL K BEDTIME (I retire to my hut and awkwardly position myself under the stream of cold water to have what I think I used to call a “shower”)
9:00pm - write some more, read a bit, practice my river dancing
10:00pm - sprawl out on my bed, positioning myself so that I get maximum coolage from the ceiling fan
10:01pm - dream of chapati
I’ve also definitely lost weight while I’m here. At school this year I gained I think 5 or 6 pounds, which was mostly just muscle mass to add to my already bulging physique (eh ladies?) and it’s gone. I think it’s a combination of the sweat, the vegetarian diet, and the complete lack of anything sweet. I’ve doubled the sugar intake in my tea to a quarter of a teaspoon to curb my cravings. My mom also packed me Skittles for the plane ride which I didn’t start eating until yesterday... and I’ve figured out that if I ration them to 5 per day, it will last until the Indian tour starts. It’s good. It’s discipline.
LaShonda has started working again. I don’t know what was wrong with her, but she just didn’t want to find the internet. So that’s why last post was all one paragraph - my iPod didn’t recognize the returns apparently.
Speaking of the aforementioned Indian tour, I calculated that I am going to take nine plane rides during this trip. My past total number of plane rides was thirteen I think. I might be missing a layover in there but I don’t think I am. SO YEAH. So much plane.
Pictures will arrive shortly. I still don’t feel as if I’ve taken enough good ones to show everyone. They will come though. I promise. I’ll put a few on the blog and then rest on Facebook, so if we aren’t friends yet just add me so that you’ll be able to see them all.
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