Here’s a little post about the daily schedule we have here in Quang Tri during the work week. It’s a really simple schedule, surprisingly busy, and extremely gratifying.
5:30 am: Wake up! The sun rises early and sets early here in Quang Tri.
5:45 am: Wake up Bao. The dude just doesn’t have an alarm and relies on me to wake him up. I keep telling him that if I forget to wake up one morning that we’re both cooked but nothings changed.
6:00 am: Breakfast. We get a nice selection of pho, noodles, and fried eggs.
6:30 am: Leave for the worksite. It’s usually around a 15 minute bike ride to the school we’re working at.
7-11:00 am: Work work work work work! This usually involved breaking cement, digging, mixing concrete, and building the restroom.
11:30 am: Lunchtime.
12-2:45 pm: Free time. I usually do laundry and nap. If me and Bao already planned the lesson for the day, we usually sleep the whole time. If not, we wake up at around 1:00 and plan the lesson.
3-4:30 pm: ESL classes for my class. My students ended up being a whole class of girls so that’s somewhat interesting. They’re all very sweet a very nice so it definitely makes teaching for me easy! Their vocab and grammar is pretty solid, so I usually try to hit up speaking, listening, and making conversations when planning lessons for the day.
4:30-6:30 pm: Free time again! On Fridays, I take my class out for smoothies and we just relax and talk about the weekend and chill. On other days, I might grab smoothies with my fellow teachers and on Tuesdays we rent out a turf field and play soccer.
6:30 pm: Dinner.
Rest of the night: Free time to chill, lesson plan, laundry if we haven’t done it, or blog like I am right now! We usually go to bed pretty early since the day is pretty exhausting.
It doesn’t seem to bad right? It’s super simple and we’re just kinda living in our own little world here. It’s nice to see the daily progress we make at both the worksite and the progress my students are making in class so I’ve attached some photos of what’s been happening. Enjoy!
5:30 am: Wake up! The sun rises early and sets early here in Quang Tri.
5:45 am: Wake up Bao. The dude just doesn’t have an alarm and relies on me to wake him up. I keep telling him that if I forget to wake up one morning that we’re both cooked but nothings changed.
6:00 am: Breakfast. We get a nice selection of pho, noodles, and fried eggs.
6:30 am: Leave for the worksite. It’s usually around a 15 minute bike ride to the school we’re working at.
7-11:00 am: Work work work work work! This usually involved breaking cement, digging, mixing concrete, and building the restroom.
11:30 am: Lunchtime.
12-2:45 pm: Free time. I usually do laundry and nap. If me and Bao already planned the lesson for the day, we usually sleep the whole time. If not, we wake up at around 1:00 and plan the lesson.
3-4:30 pm: ESL classes for my class. My students ended up being a whole class of girls so that’s somewhat interesting. They’re all very sweet a very nice so it definitely makes teaching for me easy! Their vocab and grammar is pretty solid, so I usually try to hit up speaking, listening, and making conversations when planning lessons for the day.
4:30-6:30 pm: Free time again! On Fridays, I take my class out for smoothies and we just relax and talk about the weekend and chill. On other days, I might grab smoothies with my fellow teachers and on Tuesdays we rent out a turf field and play soccer.
6:30 pm: Dinner.
Rest of the night: Free time to chill, lesson plan, laundry if we haven’t done it, or blog like I am right now! We usually go to bed pretty early since the day is pretty exhausting.
It doesn’t seem to bad right? It’s super simple and we’re just kinda living in our own little world here. It’s nice to see the daily progress we make at both the worksite and the progress my students are making in class so I’ve attached some photos of what’s been happening. Enjoy!