Being Flexible is the key

For the last two days we have gotten into a schedule which has been nice:

6am                          Get up
7am                          Breakfast of toast and eggs, individual quiet times
8:30am                     Taxi picks us up
9:00am                     We arrive at the school ready to teach:)
9:00-11:00am           Teaching our groups with a 5 min break
11:00am-11:30          Break-Debrief teaching
11:30-12:30               Lunch of rice with vegetables or meat
12:30-3:00pm            Teaching our groups with a 10 min break
3:00-3:30pm               Interaction with students/them teaching us Burmese:)
3:30-4:00pm               Ride back to hotel
4:00-8pm                    Relax, Plan lessons for next day, and eventually bed (which tends to be much later for me!)

However, as we have quickly learned, schedules are flexible and never set in stone. Like today, we didn't start teaching until 9:30 and instead shared testimonies with the students. Tomorrow we are teaching from 9-12 and then teaching at chapel for 30 minutes. (even then I'm pretty sure we missed some things in translation so the times are unsure!!) Then we will spend some time with the women building relationships and helping them work on their English in the afternoon. So who knows what the rest of the week holds??! :)  


Tonight we ventured out to the tea place next to our hotel since we both did not want to order off the hotel menu again...thankfully the menu had pictures of the food and we had 5 waiters standing in a circle around our little table waiting to help us.!! We ordered tea and some kind of sugar bread and a type of curry...using lots of hand motions and pointing. None of the spoke English and we have learned Hello and I'm fine in Burmese:) Overall it was a wonderful dinner and ended up being only a $1. You really can't beat that!!!!