Friday, February 17, 2012

A day in the Life of Kris

Today marks our third week being here!! I can’t believe how fast it is already flying by! I can’t even express in words how much I’ve been freaking out lately about how fast life flew by this last year and how fast my time here is going to fly! Well, I wanted to write to tell you a little more about some of the details I left out in my last post. Well start my weekends. Saturdays we go out and explore Moscow and or surrounding areas so we are gone most of the day and don’t come home till later. Next we’ll talk about Sundays and the journey it is to get to church. Let’s just say I’ve never appreciated the closeness of our church building in Utah as much as I do now! It takes us two hours to get church which consists of a forty min. buss ride, an hour metro ride with two switches, and a twenty min. walk from the metro to the building! Then when we get there we have to change out of our warm travel clothing to Sunday apparel. It is very exhausting!! Then three hours later we repeat the process  to go home! The worst part of all this being, we get up at six the next morning (Monday morning) to repeat the whole process over again! I did not know, nor did any of us, that we would be teaching at the Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering once a week and our turn happened to fall on Monday! It to is a two-hour journey so by Tuesday we are completely spent!! However, and once again, I schedule is looking to be changed around in the next week and with it I believe our day to teach at the University will get switched to Thursdays! So here is what my schedule looks like right now…
Monday:
         6:45-8:30 : Travel to University
8:30: Teach at University at
12:30 :Lunch
2-3:50: Prepare lesson
4-5:45: Teach Pre-K
6:00 Dinner
Tuesday:
         9:00 : Breakfast
         10:00-11:00: Language Class
         12:30: Lunch
2-3:50: Prepare lessons
4-5:45: Teach Pre-K
6:00 Dinner
Wednesday:
         8:30: Breakfast
         9:00 : Travel to Culture class
         9:30-11:30 Culture Class
         11:30-12:00 :Travel Home
         12:30 : Lunch
2-3:50: Prepare lesson
4-5:45: Teach Pre-K
6:00 Dinner
Thursday:
         9:00: Breakfast
         12:30 : Lunch
2-3:50: Prepare lesson
4-5:45: Teach Pre-K
6:00 Dinner
7:00 : GO SWIMMING!!!!
Friday:
         8:30 Breakfast
         9:30-11:30 Teach Pre-K
         12:30 Lunch
         6:00 Dinner
Saturday
         Travel around Moscow!!!
Sunday
         10-12:15 : Travel to church
         12:30-3:30 Church
         4:00 –6:00 Travel Home

So there you have it, my schedule. During my free time I write my weeks worth of lessons (10 lessons) that are due every Thursday for the next week, read, write, and whatever I feel like doing. We have also started doing things as a group like movie night, card night and stuff like that. It’s been way fun. However, like I mentioned before Im pretty sure some alterations are going to be made in a week so that we teach at the university on Thursday morning (which I will like so much better than on Monday right after the long weekend! ) and Me and Rauni will teach Pre-K in the morning on Mondays instead of the afternoons which is way nice cause we much more prefer teaching in the morning! So there is a pretty good outline of my day-to-day life!

Next I will be writing about some more adventures I have had thus far, the food, weather, language barrier, and the guards we have protecting the school 24/7 !!! So stay tuned!!

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