A typical day for me at Tashirat

At 6:30 I arise and stroll up to a bungalow to do yoga with the sunrise.

Following yoga I enjoy a delicious breakfast. These days it tends to be some kind of green soup or salad. Delicious!

Around 9am I stroll into the school Kitchen to help Louis prepare lunch.

With the help of some of the boys we carry it down to the school.

Depending on the meal I either help serve lunch...

..or help Martha in the store, filling honey jars,

sweeping,

or organizing the supplies.

I return to help clean up the school lunch, and of course eat some as well!

After some happy bellies, Ya-Yin and I clean all the dishes.

At 1:00pm we head over to the communal kitchen and make green juice for the staff.

She juices.

I sieve. Nobody likes chunky green juice.

Then it´s break time!

When I get to drink my green juice!

I return to work for one more hour, doing various tasks. And then at 4 I am done. I have a snack. A delicious, juicy snack...

And then it is time for meditation. I meditate in this bungalow for one hour. I usually last in this stellar position for about twenty minutes before my knees whine and I lay down.

In the evening we cook dinner.

I study for a couple hours, usually nutrition info.

Then, when it is too dark to take pictures, we eat dinner together.

This has been my typical day for the last few weeks. However, all that is going to change in two days. The students go on a two week holiday, and we are down to only five volunteers. So, I will be working in the communal kitchen for most of the day. Other volunteers will be collecting compost, moving trash and recycling, as well as poop buckets. Unfortunately, Abby hurt her back doing compost and is off wheelbarrow duty. Luckily she likes being in the kitchen.