I Fall Asleep the Second my Head Hits the Pillow!

Any of you wondering what I am up to? Well, welcome to my world:
Monday- Friday
 6:30 am Rise and shine (I understand the rise part, but shine?)
 7:00 am Breakfast (Get there on time or the boys eat all the food! Breakfast normally consists of rolls that have been bought from the store around the corner. The store is normally, a little shop in front of someone’s house. We also have butter and jam with little ants crawling all over the jar, yummy!)
 7:30-8:30 am- Quiet Time with God
 8:35- 9:35 am- Class
 15 minute break! One of my personal highlights of the day, but I normally have to spend my break time running to the bathroom (trying to remember my toilet paper) and filling up my water bottle. It is so hot, I need to drink a lot of water, I don’t want a repeat of kidney stones, and I have been out of school for awhile, so I struggle staying awake in class if I don’t drink water to stay awake! Speaking of water, that is another interesting topic. After a few days here, I learned that my room and board fees don’t include the cost of clean drinking water. Also, if I want clean drinking water, I need to find it and buy it myself. This has been a very interesting concept and cultural learning experience. The majority of the time, there is hot, boiled water for me to drink, with meals, but I am not big on hot beverages even when it is cold so, the last thing I want to drink when it is 95 plus degrees outside with about 95% humidity is hot coffee or tea! Holy cow! Praise God, I recently managed to connect with a water company and I am now having water delivered to my home here. I pay $2 USD for 20 liters of water. I was also able to rent a little stand from the company that helps me dispense the water so I don’t have to tip the huge jug over every time I want water. I then transfer the water into my water bottle and cool it in the fridge with my name on it. If I don’t put my name on it, it is as good as gone! Exhausting!  Many of you may be wondering why I don’t boil my water and then put that in the fridge.  Well, with the schedule I am currently keeping, I have little time to boil water. Oh, I know, I don’t need to watch it boil, and as my brother reminded me, it won’t boil if I watch it anyway, but if you store the boiled water here for too long, like 1 day, a funky layer of scum and white floaty things forms on the water, and yes, I am picky… I don’t want to drink water like that!
 9:50-10:45 am- Class
 15 minute break!
 11:00 am -12:45pm- Class
 12:45 pm- Lunch (I have been extremely relieved to learn that Bolivians don’t eat a lot of fish or goat! Praise the Lord! The main food here is chicken and some sort of pasta or rice! Not bad at all! The first week here, I was totally enjoying the food and the fact that I didn’t have to eat fish, so I didn’t notice we weren’t eating any fruits, vegetables, or milk products. I let a few more days pass, waiting to see if the missing food groups would appear, but they didn’t and that is when I learned fruits, veggies, and dairy products are not really included in the diet that I will be eating here in Bolivia, yet another interesting learning experience. So, to ward off osteoporosis and another pile of health problems, I have the privilege of figuring out how to get a supply of fruit, vegetables, and dairy products and I have to pay for them myself (also not included in my room and board). There is an amazing grocery store down the road, but having time to get there is difficult. I often use a large part of my weekend to obtain fruit.  Once I get it, I soak it in a bleach solution to make sure I don’t eat any nasty invisible bugs, if you know what I mean. Oh, I love the challenge of living in a foreign country!
 1:30- 2:45 pm- Daily work duties (We rotate jobs every two weeks; praise God, because my current work duty is cleaning the bathrooms! Yikes!)
 15 minute break!
 3:00- 5:00 pm- Preparation for outreach, learning dramas, writing puppet shows, sports, personal study time, or class (activities alternate daily throughout the week)
 5:00- 6:00 pm Prayer group or small group time
 30 minute break (During this break I am frequently found outside near the faucet, sticking my entire head under the water, just to cool off! My hair dries in like 2 minutes and then I am hot all over again, so I repeatedly stick my head in the water again and again for my entire 15 minute break).
 6:30 pm- Dinner
 7:30- 10:00 pm One-on-one mentoring, chapel, street work, or homework time (activities alternate every few days throughout the week)
 10:30 pm Lights out (As soon as my mosquito net is securely tucked into my bed, I turn my fan on, and I fall asleep the second my head hits my pillow!)