I’ve been in Tsévié now for a little over a week and I’m slowly settling into a routine. On most days I get up at 6am, shower and have breakfast. We have French language class almost every morning from 7:30-9:30 and then some type of info session from 10-12 (usually SED training of some sort). Then we all go home for lunch and come back for a 2:30-5:30 class. After that, I usually go home and help mama cook dinner (although I mainly just watch her cook, but recently she’s let me do a few simple things such as grating carrots and adding pre-cut food to a pot). My French cooking vocabulary is improving a lot! After dinner (between 7 and 8), I take another bucket shower and go to my room to read or watch a movie.
This morning, however, I got up a little earlier and met two other stagieres at the tech house for a circuit/pilates workout. One girl used to be a pilates and kickboxing instructor in college so she planned out a nice workout routine. With all the carbs that I’ve been eating it was definitely nice to work out, but it’s still so hot and humid in the morning that I swear I sweat in places where I didn’t even know it was possible to. We plan to try and do this twice a week.
Tonight was a little different than other nights. It was one stagiaire’s birthday today, which of course translates into a celebration for all of us. Instead of having dinner with our families, we all went straight from class to a local bar called Albatros. The first time I went here was on our second night in Tsévié. We went with a PCV who ordered dinner, which was spaghetti avec une omelette. Ever since I have been craving this, and more so than Mexican food or cheese or pizza. Well tonight I finally got to eat it and it was delicious. I’m realizing that it’s the little things in life (like food) that make me really happy.
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