"Oops, I did it again!"

Here it is Monday, our day off, and I missed it again. I finished class at 5:00 a.m. and got back to the hotel around 6:00, changed and once the sun came up at 6:30 went for a good run and walk on the beach and got back at 7:30. Checked email, took a shower, went downstairs for breakfast, and came back up... intending to take a good nap and then get up and do some sightseeing on the afternoon of my free day.

But however I was so tired from these six-day weeks that I slept right through the whole day and didn't wake up until 11:00 p.m. on Monday night!

People ask what we do on our days off here, and I reply that there is only one open day since we teach two three-day classes each week, and that, if you want to keep your body on a normal schedule, our free "day" is from 8:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. the next morning! It would be like an American worker in the States staying awake to go sightseeing from 11:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. on your day off. Not only would your body be sleepy and not at all ready to do anything physical, but there wouldn't be a lot of things open to see and do!

So here it is, now 1:28 a.m. in the morning on Tuesday, wide awake and ready to go.

:(

Guess I'll check email, do my expense accounts, and send in the weekly reports to the boss.

Then probably about 6:00 a.m. I'll be tired of work, go downstairs for breakfast, and then go to bed for the day. (Literally, for the rest of the day!) Then wake up around 5:00 p.m. this evening, shower, go downstairs for dinner, and head off to work Tuesday night. Hmm, Monday wasn't much of a touristy-sightseeing day off, was it?

:)

Strange, huh? But after a solid string of six nine-hour days, with an hour of transport on both ends, you get pretty tired and sleep is very welcome.

Well, I'll post this note and get back with you after class on Tuesday to tell you if I managed to get in any mini-sightseeing this afternoon before class!