Needless to say, I have become a very busy man these days (as indicated by the above picture). This is regrettable obviously, one reason being that I have been unable to fill my loyal readers' hearts with the joy that only my joyous blogs of joy are able to provide. Another reason is because my torrential onslaught of a work schedule hardly seems to provide me with adequate time for other life necessities such as achieving a desirable REM cycle, intaking required nutrients, and breaking down adenosine triphosphate into its less useful components. But really, gross exaggerations aside, I have been pretty busy, and that's not entirely a bad thing. While I definitely am bummed that I have gotten away from blogging, I have been having a great time with work and teaching swim lessons. To celebrate my homecoming back to my blog, I'm going to go ahead and share with you all exactly what I've been up to every single day that I've been away! Don't get too excited though, it wont really be very difficult, seeing as every single day is exactly the same as the previous one. To compensate for the lack of diversity in my life however, I still have plenty of adventures and pictures of me with friendly strangers from my weekend travels that I will be sharing in the next few postings. But now, without any further ado, is my wondrous and magical work schedule!
Average work day:
0900: Wake up, shower, other morning stuff
0915: Make my breakfast for the day. My breakfasts ALWAYS consists of the butter of peanuts, grape jelly, and bread. Woo.
0930: Go to the pool. Swim some stupid amount. Almost die. Recover from my near death experience.
1030: Start work at the Greenbeach Pool. This entails sitting and reading for half an hour slash swimming some more slash skyping with my good friend Kevin, and then guarding for half an hour. This process repeats itself until my lunch break at 1300.
1300: Lunch break. I leave Greenbeach, go back to my room, play four rounds of Brawl on my Wii with my friends, then eat my lunch. My lunch ALWAYS consists of rye bread, liberal miracle whip, semi liberal dijon mustard, two slices roast beef, one slice turkey, once slice cotto salami. Woo.
1415: Leave the TPU (place where I live) for the BOQ (swim lesson pool).
1425 (sharp): Arrive at BOQ. Lessons start at 1500, but we have to be half an hour early (don't ask me why). We have to be there half an hour early, but Camp Adventure policy states that we have to arrive at any appointment five minutes earlier than the designated arrival time (don't ask me why), hence the '1425 SHARP' doubly amended arrival time. Anyways, I digress.
1500: LESSONS BEGIN
1900: LESSONS END (We have a total of four lesson sessions every day, one every hour. I teach two lessons a day, and when I'm not teaching, I aid other Camp Adventure instructors)
1910 Arrive at the TPU. Donesies for the day.
1910-1930: Lay on my bed in a semi-vegetative state while my brain recovers from the amount of sun and childrens' screams that it endured over the past ten hours.
1930: DINNER TIME. Dinner is unique in its endless variance, relative to my other meals. I have three different meals that I eat for dinner here. Meal A.) consists of the exact same thing that I had for lunch earlier that day. Meal B.) consists of three to five packages of a 69 cent beef chow mein meal that I was fortunately able to purchase from the local grocery in a denomination that would likely feed a small country for three to five years, coincidentally. Meal C.) consists of rice, vienna sausage, and patis (fish sauce).
2000-2300: This is the weird time of the night that just seems to pass by in the blink of the eye. Usually we have some time of meeting or gathering of all the aquatics staff, or otherwise I am busied with things like laundry or homework. Yes. We have to do homework here.
2300: BED TIME
This is my schedule during the day. Woo. But now that I have plowed through 90% of what I have done in my time in Japan in one measly blog posting, we can look forward to some more postings about my weekend travels. Next blog I'll talk about my visit to Yokohama and Zushi beach! Well I think that wraps it up for today. Thanks for reading, and I hope you are all having your own respective summer adventures. Tune in next time!
