Whenever in the past I have traveled everyday looks different as I try to explore the new place. This experience has been very unique in that I have formed a routine and many of my days look quite similar which has helped make moving to a foreign land feel much more normal.
All of us (us being my 41 other trainees) are currently staying with host families that live in the town that we are doing our Pre-Service Training in. It's three months long and is preparing us to be able to live on our own and to teach English as a foreign language. My host family consists of my mama and dada and three sisters ages 15, 13, and 6. My whole family is amazing and have been so patient with me as I stumble my way through the Malagasy language. We also have little neighbors all under the age of 5 that come over often and are quite the entertainment. We eat rice twice a day and sometimes also for breakfast but I really haven't had anything I don't like. I eat quite well here. Too many carbs though doesn't exist here.
On an average day I wake up at 5:20 and head out for a run. Some days I meet up with people others I'm on my own. Every morning my family has breakfast at 6:30 so I get back from my run a little before that in order to shower in my lodosy. My family spoils me and gives me warm water for my bucket shower. After breakfast we just hang out a little and then I leave my house around 7:30 for my language class at 8. (It's only like a 15 minute walk but I like to get there early and chat). Our language classes are small, there's only 4-5 people in a class which is definitely nice. Our first session goes from 8-10, we get a half hour break where we walk around and meet up with friends and then go back to language class until 12. We have another break from 12-2 where we eat lunch back at home and hang out with our families. Then we have two more sessions in the afternoon until 5. After that I either go straight home or I stay and just talk with friends for a while (as much as I love my host family it is exhausting going all day in sessions and then having to go home and still have to think about everything you're saying and is being said to you). Once I get home I sometimes help with dinner or if the girls are around they request to play Uno which I taught them how to play. Dinner is around 6:30 and after we get done clearing the table we sometimes play more Uno but more often than not I'm so tired after our day that I just go to my room for bed. I'm almost always without fail in bed by 8 and then after reading and journaling for a bit I'm easily asleep by 9 and then the process starts all over again.
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