6:00 am – Eat breakfast (today I had cold brown rice + cold oatmeal + milk and honey and it was delicious), shower, get ready, and above all else, avoid blowdrying hair. 6:55 am – Commute via Jeepney. It’s about a 30 second commute. 8:30 am – Start school. 11:30 am – Lunch time. And thank goodness Jollibee delivers. 4:15 pm – Walk home. On the way home, make a pit stop for rice, produce, Oreos, and other essentials. 4:30 pm – Carry groceries home on a busy street full of people, ignoring comments made about my nose and ignoring the fact that every item of clothing on my body is saturated with sweat. 4:45 pm – Get home and bleach produce. (Sidenote on the bleaching: at the recommendation of other Americans living in Cebu as well as doctors back home in the States, we soak all fresh produce in a large bowl of water with a capful of bleach added to it. It sits for about 5 minutes and then it gets rinsed off with regular tap water. How this works is a mystery to me and I’d like to stop doing it because it’s ruined a few of my shirts. Plus it just seems weird. But then I heard about someone living in Cebu who got a nice fungus on his face from eating a mango straight from the market. So I think I’ll keep bleaching.) 6:00 pm – Dinner at home, dinner with the staff, dinner with visitors and adoptive parents, or kids’ birthday dinners (yes, they celebrate all 83 birthdays). I love dinner. I love food. 7:00 pm – Refrigerated chocolate + blog stuff. 8:00 pm – Cuteoverload.com and other good uses of time. 9:00 pm – Skype time, phone time, I-wish-I-could-hug-you-through-the-computer time. 10:00 pm – The nightly roach patrol. This particular fellow was making his home under our bed, so we do not take this lightly. 10:15 pm – Go to bed and dream about being on this beach. Forever. The End.
