okay, so here's a (probably over-detailed) account of one fairly typical weekday.
540am: wake up, hit snooze
600am: get out of bed; put up my mosquito net, then power shave (poop, shower, and shave)
620am: bike 3k to town and eat a pork and rice breakfast, with iced milk coffee (total: 3500R or $.88), at a restaurant owned by one of the teachers and where a bunch of teachers hang out in the morning
700am: get to school and watch the students line up for the flag-raising ceremony and school director announcements
720am: start co-teaching
800am: hour break to lesson plan while watching English Premier League highlights on the office TV
915am: co-teach again
1000am: sweat my balls off (not literally....that'd be gross) as I bike home to: read (currently working on The Third Policeman; I recommend it); study Khmer; eat lunch; wash & hang laundry; and clean mud off my shoes. Most of this done while wearing only my 'kroma'
130pm: change back into clothes and bike back to school
215pm: co-teach for two hours
400pm: bike home, stop at the smoothie stand to eat a delicious smoothie (1500R or $.38) and chat with some students
440pm: back at home, back in the 'kroma'; do stuff, e.g. exercise, chat with host family, text with Bob about ants, rain, and Obama's historic victory (Bob's from Indiana, which a democrat hadn't won in 44 years; he studied at Testicle Tech, otherwise known as Ball State), collect and fold laundry
600pm: play with my family's dog, Doooooh, which basically means slapping him around until he growls at me and runs off to chase motos and bicycles
601pm: bathe - this always immediately follows playing with Doooooh (Cambodian dogs tend to be unclean)
700pm: eat
730pm: help my host sisters study English
800pm: more doing of stuff
900pm: read in bed
930pm: I'm done
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