3:56 AM Alarm clock goes off on watch, wake up
3:58 AM Knock on Zach's door at hotel to watch State of the Union address
3:59 AM Go back to my room and fiddle around with the TV to watch State of the Union
4:45 AM Remain in a state of elation and skepticism about Bush's AIDS pledge for Africa
5:08 AM Start to watch State of the Union analysis, realizing how rhetorical the analysis is
6:29 AM Zach limps into my room and we head for breakfast, free at the hotel
6:35 AM Start eating. Breakfast cereal, juice, tea, fruit, cake, bread and butter
7:00 AM Still eating. Order omelette.
7:10 AM Receive omelette with minced garlic on the side, on a plate.
7:20 AM Check out. Circumlocute my Portuguese trying to do so.
7:30 AM Zach and I catch a taxi for the PC office
7:45 AM Given clean bill of health by PC. Nothing swimming around in me.
8:00 AM Get on chapa bound for the "Sun Coast"
8:20 AM Arrive at the "Sun Coast". Realize that I don't want to be there. At all.
8:40 AM Arrive at chapa stop I MEANT to be at.
9:00 AM Arrive at location where the chapas to C--- leave from. Board chapa. The fourth chapa of the day.
9:20 AM We leave.
9:32 AM My right butt cheek starts to be in intense pain due to squeezing 18 people in a 12-person van.
10:45AM Discover comfortable sitting position, dangling feet in door well.
10:47AM Temporarily lose chinela (flip-flop) in door well
11:30AM Pass baby from mother to a woman who doesn't have a random man practically on her lap
11:50AM Baby and mother are reunited. Baby and breast are reunited.
12:01PM Police officer boards chapa. For the ride
12:25PM Get off chapa and walk home quickly.
12:30PM Arrive at home, get things together for class, change. Try to improve general funk of body.
12:45PM First class starts. Don't have lesson plan due to being away. Wing it.
1:30PM Consider it "wung"
3:20PM Go to singing group. Start learning song in Changana.
4:15PM Return to giving lessons, my 4th and 5th of the afternoon.
4:55PM Throw two students out of room for talking.
5:05PM Students allowed to reenter room. Class is still unruly and anxious for their evenings to start early. Give universal teacher lecture that if they stay quiet, they'll get out quicker.
5:15PM Student talks so I'll kick him out. I make him stay. He shuts up.
6:00PM Arrive home, go back out to check mail.
6:10PM Arrive home again with mail. Entertain neighborhood kids.
8:00PM Cook and eat dinner.
8:30PM Clean.
9:03PM Breathe.
Peace
John
