A normal day for a normal person

I think the majority of my posts this month make my life seem more exciting than it is.  The first few were about the most interesting things I had done over the past few months, and then there was carnival, which was quite an experience, but not by any means a reflection of my daily life here.  Today, since I'm just a normal person, I had just a normal day.  I woke up and made fried eggs for breakfast, of course.  There are about 7 old frying pans at the hostel, and for the past two weeks since I've been living here I've been trying to find one that my eggs don't stick to and burn.  I kept forgetting which ones I'd tried and which ones I hadn't as I rotated through all of them trying to decide which one was best, and today I finally found one that is actually non-stick!  I just hope that by tomorrow I remember which one it is...

After than I went to hang out with some friends who work at a stand in the arts and crafts market near the ruins.  On the way there I stopped at the small grocery store that I often go to so that I could buy some juice powder for terere and to pay the 10 pesos that I owed from yesterday when I embarrassingly realized after ringing up everything I wanted that I didn't have enough money with me.  At the stand we sat around and talked, and of course drank terere, and some other friends came by to hang out too.  After an hour or two I came back to the hostel to eat lunch - leftovers from yesterday.

In the afternoon I hung out with my friend Silvia who works in the reception opposite me (she works 8am - 4pm and I work 4pm - midnight).  I prepared some terere for us to drink, which involved trying to chisel/cut a block of ice frozen in a 2 liter bottle.  My efforts at this were rather unsuccessful, so the cook in the restaurant here helped me out with his meat cleaver.  Silvia is my best friend here and we were really excited to work together until we realized that meant that one of us would always be working, and we could never just hang out.  Luckily I have my day off on Thursdays, and she has hers on Fridays, so we have a 24hr block each week to hang out outside of work.

After that I went to shower and get ready for my shift, and now I'm working, and when I finish at midnight I'll go to bed.  And that's the perfectly normal life I have here.