A day in the life of "the machine"

9:00--wake up

9:15--wake up

9:30--seriously, wake up
Marcel, another cleaner that sleeps above me, is my alarm clock. He's very patient.

9:40--make decision to eat breakfast or shower
Current score: Food 15 Hygiene 0

9:45--eat breakfast
It's either pancakes, french toast or fried egg and toast. Pancake day  is obviously my favorite. On fried egg days I usually get granola and yogurt. Something about eating the yolk of an egg weirds me out.

10:00--shift starts
It's either clean the small downstairs bathroom, tidy up outside, or sweep and mop the stairs. There's 3 cleaners so we each get one task. I guess I prefer outside but all are relatively easy.

10:30--Short Bible discussion
Led by the day's CS (cleaner supervisor). I like this time of our day. We chat and drink hot chocolate. It's fun and usually entertaining and not super serious... true of the CS's as well.

11:00--time to work
Spend the next 2 1/2 hours making beds, cleaning sinks and mirros, vacuuming and mopping. Or if you're on bathroom duty (every cleaner gets a 10-day bathroom stint) you do that the whole time. Neither job is particulary hard. I think prefer bathrooms.

13:30--lunch time
We eat unlimited toasted sandwiches and leftover breakfast and leftover dinner from the night before. I've gained the nickname "the machine" and I'm proud.

14:15ish--finish up working
Either vacuum and mop the reception area by yourself or tag team the cafe with another cleaner. Pretty easy.

14:45ish--spend the next 4 hours doing some kind of combination of the following:

• napping
• playing chess
• hanging out with staff
• playing football (the kind you play with your feet)
• snacking
• meeting and talking to guests
• walking/biking around town
• surfing the (painfully slow) internet
• going to a jazz bar

18:30ish--eat dinner.
The food is great! Tonight was sweet and sour chicken and rice with banana-chocolate cake and pudding for dessert. Yum.

18:50ish--eat another portion of dinner

19:30--spend next 6 hours doing some kind of combination of the aforementioned activities

1:30ish--go upstairs
I always stay up pretty late, The 18-bed room I sleep in often has weird smells and loud snorers. So its either beat the snorers to bed or go to bed when I'm so tired I'll fall asleep nevermind the smells or noises.

1:35--make decision whether to sleep or shower, seeing as though I didn't shower in the morning.
Current score: Sleep 8 Hygiene 7
Yes, that means there are days I dont shower. Judge me, I not ashamed. I don't think I'm the only one who takes less showers in the winter.

2:00--Fall asleep (hopefully)

4:00--Dream of watching Sportscenter or going back to Cuba or eating chick-fil-a or being one of the 15,000 in Coleman Coliseum or Ashley Jackson...

9:00--repeat