Details of my day:
00:01- In the Bar de la Marine in St. Gilles watching soccer with Martine and the guys. Tried a mojito. Didn't like it.
03:00 - Cuddle up in my sleeping bag for a peaceful night's rest on the beach, surrounded by a full stary night, huge waves lapping at the sand 20 yards away, and seven friends of various nationalites, listening to Austrian hip hop.
4:45 - Wake up, roll up my sleeping bag, feel the tension in my arms and back from rock climbing yesterday, and walk to the bus stop. Miss the Saint Denis express by about 2 minutes, wait for 25 minutes for the never-ending C line. Sleep on the bus.
6:22-Arrive in St. Denis, consume some cafe au lait and a croissant waiting for the bus back to campus. It doesn't come. I wait for the next one. 20 minutes late.
7:00 - Class starts. I'm still on the bus.
7:36- Arrive in class: luckily one with a professor whose motto is "better late than never!"
9:22 - Almost done with the second class of the day. Accidentally drool on myself a little.
10:00- Sit in my room during the ONLY free time I have all day, writing my blog rather than sleeping because I feel too beachy and caffeinated to sleep, and they've turned the water off in my building for the day to do work on the pipes. Again.
~Future~
11:15 - Meet my English teaching partner, walk to the elementary school we teach at, teach an hour of English.
13:00 - Class starts. I'm still teaching.
13:45 - I arrive at class, likely without a chair, sandwich in hand for having not yet eaten lunch.
16:00- Go straight from one classroom to another for my fourth class of the day.
18:00 - Go from that fourth class to a meeting/training session for teaching English.
19:30- Supper in the University cafeteria.
20:30- Begin the first of two literary translations of tomorrow morning's homework.
From this point on, there's really no telling what order anything goes in, but I imagine it will involve something along the lines of translation, sleep, translation, sleep, sleep, sleep.
So there you go, a day in the life. I'm loving it, but I am SO glad to say that the blessed routine will be entirely abandoned in three weeks' time with the conclusion of the semester!
OH, and one more thing: I literally saw the first peak of the sun over the horizon from the bus station this morning. I've never seen the sunrise over the water before, and it was an incredible assurance that yes, this is precisely where I'm supposed to be.
EDIT: Here's what ACTUALLY happened from 11am on.
11:00- Run to a friend's room in the next building over to wash up and fill up my water bottles.
11:15-Meet my partner, teach English, comme prevue.
13:15- Leave the elementary school, walk back to the Hotel de Region, get a chicken sandwich, wait for the bus.
13:17 - Get told by a woman on the bus that the address on the paper I'm holding is located at the current bus stop (Not where I was thinking I was going...) Virtually get kicked off the bus.
13:22- Enter the hospital, find out I'm in the wrong place. Bus lady was mistaken.
...ask directions...bus... walk....ask directions...bus...
15:15 - Enter third medical facility of the day to find out that the first appointment I'd missed MUST be taken care of before going to the second. Told to come back tomorrow morning.
...wait for and interminably long time for the bus....bus...walk...
16:45- Enter Xray clinic. Wait. Get a chest x-ray. Wait more.
17:30- Leave clinic, x-ray results in hand, enter grocery store.
...shop...wait...bus...walk...
19:30- Food.
20:30- Still haven't showered. Will comes over to use my Skype. Thus commences a rather pleasant end to a rather unpleasant day.
1:20 am Friday - Now.
...sleep....
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