A Day in the Life PART 1

Our blogs tend to portray individual events or themes from our life
here in rural Mozambique, but we thought it might be interesting to
give you an idea of our typical daily routine. So here's what we did
last Monday:
Our days start at different times- Luc rises before 6, usually awoken
by Romão, while Janet, still a late-riser even in Peace Corps, dozes
at least another hour. Luc uses his morning time to send emails on the
cell phone, listen to BBC radio, refill the water filter, sweep the
house and facilitate Romão getting a couple buckets of water from the
neighbor's well. Today since we have electricity, so Luc is able to
make his typical hot breakfast - a porridge of bananas and corn flour.
Janet rolls out of bed before Luc heads out to teach computers from 8
to 10. She busies herself doing laundry (a lengthy handwash process)
and dishes while sipping coffee and enjoying the science hour on the
radio. Then we walk 10 minutes into 'downtown' to the market, bumping
into students and teacher colleagues on the way. We stock up on bread
and lettuce, as well as tomatoes and peppers to make beans for dinner,
visiting our usual vendors whom we know by name. After a quick salad
for lunch, Luc heads back to school for 5 periods of English, Monday
being his longest day. Today he's working on how to form negative
phrases. Janet finishes grading French tests to return the next day
and cooks Mexican-ish beans. Romao stops by to visit (he should be in
school all afternoon but his teachers haven't shown up today). Janet
has computer class from 3 to 5, and was hoping to cover Word Art and
page borders to make certificates, but only 2 of her 6 students came
because another teacher was giving a make-up test. Luc finishes class
and goes for his daily run in the fields outside town. Janet makes
cornbread in our mighty little toaster oven and we take our bucket
baths. By now we're ready to relax, but four 10th graders come by to
ask for help with English homework for the other teacher. [CONTINUED
IN PART 2]