What do you do during your down time
Right now, in the winter, I am gone from before sun up until after sun down so there isn’t much to do during the week. I get home, cook something, clean up some, maybe do some other random chores or little things around the house. Sometimes I read or do crosswords while it is still light out. Other times some kids will come and we might play cards or different dice games or maraba-raba (kind of a local combination of tic-tac-toe and some other game that I can’t decide on. Tough to explain)
Weekends I am usually pretty busy also. I always go to Sunday study which runs from about 9 until 11 or 12. Church follows it and I go once a month when my students are supposed to be leading mass, although recently not many have been showing so the quality of the singing has dropped and the drum doesn’t come out as much. Saturdays have been fairly busy lately as well. Lots of meetings or sports days or studying for exams, a funeral here or there, so not much free time.
I do have a lot of downtime when I am trapped in the office at school during my off periods. I do a lot of reading (I’ve gone through 30 something books by now) and have started to really concentrate on learning Sesotho, although both have taken a back seat recently with exams and all the work that goes into that.
When it was warmer and the days longer, I wandered around the village and the neighboring villages and mountains more often, but I’ll have to wait until spring to do more of that.
With the solar panel up, I now watch movies and TV shows or just play around on the computer in general for an hour or so every night.
