My typical day...
6:00-6:15---listen to my companion´s alarm go off every four minutes and try to get my last few moments of precious sleep in.
6:15--- get up, shower and dress for the day.
7:00---head to breakfast. Eat breakfast and listen to the Elders in my district and the district next to us argue over shich hair color is better, blonde or brunette. This always ends with someone saying "Thomas S. Monson-BRUNETTE- Boom, Head Shot!! What are ya gonna do now?" Then the rest of the table choruses, "Trump card. Can´t say anything to that. Give up now, no matter how much you like Owen Wilson and Hannah Montana, you can´t win." Random conversations like this are what we have resorted to after 7 weeks of being in this place...(;
7:30---Personal Study. Read BoM and LdM and try to understand LdM with the help of my BoM. Try my dangdest to stay awake. From now until after lunch I am no longer allowed to speak Portuguese. Try starting you day off with someone making you do push-ups every time you speak your native language. Take it one step farther and try to keep good thoughts in your head when that certain someone tells you to do push-ups for speaking your native language...jk
8:30---Instruction with Irmão Borges-my instructor talks about his dating life like heps trying to cimmit someone for baptism. We usually teach a few lessons in Portuguese in this class. We also work on a computer program for the language called TALL. TALL never works. I got on my computer yesterday and to prove this some bored Elder (probably not being able to use the program) had set the desktop as the TALL login screen tiled across the back with "TALL: the program the never works. GOOD LUCK ELDER!!" written under each picture. Lol! Very true.
1:27---Elder Chrisney says, "Only 33 minutes until lunch guys!!"
1:52---Elder Chrisney again, "Down to 8 minutes..."
12:00---Lunch. Beans, rice, salad and an apple. Usually if they have the right dressing I can make a delicious cafe rio salad. No tortilla howerver. Yummy right? Not after having it 2 times a day for 1 1/2 months. All I want is a grilled cheese or PB & J. I always rejoice when the have mango, cry when they don´t have any fruit and then bribe one of the elders to try the questionable desert before I do. After lunch, "Eureka!! I can speak English!!!"
12:30---Gym time. Always stop on the way to gym to see if the scale is broken. Yep...still is. It tells me I´m 10 lbs too heavy... We go to gym early to play volleyball because we can. Usually when it gets to my trum to serve we throw down plus or minus 20 points befoer the other team gets the ball back. Chrisney misses the ball, gets angry, does his "Super Kick" which will make everyone duck for cover because you never know where it´s going and you know you don´t want it to go for your head. I move to the front middle against a kid like Jaron Jeffry (which has happened more than once with the kid himself) and everyone points out the unfairness of size and how I might as well be 2 feet tall next to him.
2:00 Leave gym and shower an ddress for class.
2:30 Wait outside the classroom for the elders in our district to get back from gym and unlock the door. Usually we sit with another district in their room until they get here. 3 sisters that have to share 1 shower can beat 6 elders that all shower at the same time. Some reason this math doesn´t add up...
2:40--Companion study/chat to releave tension and stress that has built up.
4:30---Dinner. Beans, rice, salad, meat and sometimes pineapple. Again bribe someone to try the dessert. Dread the next few hours where you will again not be able to speak English...
5:30--- Class is basically like the earlier one. Sometimes we even repeat the same lessons. Usually were more rowdy this class cause it´s been a long day. Elder Chrisney is still trying to convince his com Elder Boweles that he is on his team so he should back him up in all his words. we play a gam--Palmeiras vs Anão Rebelde(rebel dwarfs) The score is pretty even with wins vrs losses.
6:44---Elder Chrisney, "2 hours and 16 minutes left..."
----This is the longest class or my life. Really... It goes on forever.
9:00---Planning and goof off for the last half hour of class. We can now speak English again...
9:30---Cake and chocolate milk. Delicious!
10:00---quiet time/me and Sister Yorgason goof off time.
10:30---be in bed. not necasarily asleep but laying in bed.
Next day---wake and repeat..
It´s good but that´s really not far from accurate. Ya gotta love it!! Anyways...Love you all and miss you lots!
Love,
Shelle
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