こんな感じで暮らしています。

So nice to have finally some routine in my day-to-day life.

I normally wake up around 6 and leave home between 7:20 and 7:40. Our “official” work hour is from 7:30 to 5:00. It is rather long for a Canadian standard, but surely not for Japanese. So, I should be able to handle it unless I am too Canadianized! Come home around 5:30 depending on my luck in catching a ride or a minibus. My roommates and I cook together, eat, watch a bit of TV and find ourselves as early as 9:30 sometimes.

I have started aerobics classes in a dance studio nearby. I jog there for five minutes and take an hour class. Our night guard comes to pick up Helen and I, and we all walk back. Rachel cooks on our aerobics nights (twice a week.) It’s great to do exercise. The studio is a missionary type place and they play Christian music sometimes, but it is fine. They know I am Buddhist ;) I may take salsa dance class, too.

On weekends, we go grocery shopping and chill out in the house. I am taking a distance course on composition française. I am behind schedule, so I am trying to catch up mostly on weekends. On Sundays, we go to one of fancy hotels in Lilongwe to sit by a swimming pool and get on to their wireless internet. Doesn’t sound like a harsh life in a developing country, does it?? I use skype to call my family and friends.

This is how my week goes usually. やっと生活のリズムがついてきました。何かとイライラの溜まりがちな仕事以外にも楽しみを見つけるのは大事だなーと思います。