A Day in the Life of a Volunteer

6:15 am CeCe knocks on our door and we hear, "Breakfast is read."
We pull ourselves out of bed and go eat breakfast, which is always a piece of bread with either peanut butter or jam... that we brought ourselves.

7:00 am Walk to the School (unless the kids ditched us then we take a cab.... its a long walk ok?) We teach for 2 and a half hours and then begin our walk back. We usually find a cab to take us.

10:30 We have no schedule for this time, we always do the most random things. Some times we go to the special school, sometimes we go see the weaver in town, or the wood carver, sometimes we go to our drink spot, and other times (like today) we got to the internet cafe.

1:00 pm We have lunch. Its either fried yams with a tomato sauce or a salsa, or pasta with a spicy tomato sauce. We then usually try to take a nap, or write in our journals, or have a "friendly" game of nerts. Mara says "I hate you so bad" frequently during this game. Its fun, and Kailey was a quick learner. Through out this time we are also playing with the seamstress' children.

3:30 the kids come home and there is lots of hugging and talking. We help them with their chores and then we start playing baseball, soccer, or football. Playing sports here is deadly but its worth it because they have so much fun.

5:00 We take a couple of the older kids into the market with us to buy them a drink and get ourselves one for dinner.

6:30 Dinner time. This is either chicken with rice and a sauce or Cassava root with sauce (its disgusting... seriously) or othere slight variations of this. Good thing we have granola bars.

7:15 Homework time. This is one of the best times of day. All the kids with homework come up and we help them with their work. Once the littler ones have gone to bed we help the older kids with their homework and usually play a few card games with them.

8:45 "Shower" time.

9:30 We are usually in bed by this time, we read our scriptures and then Mara and Kendra go to sleep. Larissa reads until around midnight and then goes to sleep. A lot of books have been completed so far.....

2:00 am Kendra gets up and turns the light of because Larissa wont do it because a) she is on the top bunk of the bunk beds b) once in her mosquito net for the night she does not get out and c) she is a pansy.