I wake up around 5.30 - 6.00 and my day always starts with me checking my email and the new enteries on Facebook. I do that while I'm still in bed and waiting for the water to get hot in the water heater. It's only around 16 - 20 degrees outside during the night now so I need hot water for my morning shower.
Breakfast is prepared. It usually consists of yogurt with pieces of apple and sultanas. As I can't get any bread here I usually have an egg as well. Well, since last Friday I actually have a miracle oven and can make my own bread so that is going to change my breakfast habits a bit I guess.
I usually have my breakfast on the roof as it is a very good birdwatching spot. It's also nice to see the the neighbours getting ready for the day. A lot of the life is spent outside here.
At 8.55 am I set out for the office. It's only two minutes walk away so usually I'm the first one to get there, or the second one as Lalita is usually there to sweep the floor.
As the "Advisors" that work here spend a lot of their time in the different "clusters" that UMN have the office can sometimes be rather empty. This particular day it's only me, Sunita and Lalita there.
I have so far spent most of my time at the desk reading documents and trying to understand the work UMN is doing in different places. It has been OK but in the long run it's getting a bit boring……
At around 12.30 it's time for lunch and I walk the way back home again. I usually have something out of the freezer to eat.
In the afternoon my room in the office gets very hot and it is a welcome break when Sunitas son and his "didi" turn up.
By 5 pm it's time to go home and then the sun is already on it's way down. It's not quite as hot anymore. Back home it's time for emails and Facebook again.
I cook most of my food myself and every evening I have to go and buy vegetables. I usually cook daalbhat and I always have "saag"!
One of the vegetable shops on the road
About 1 dollars worth of vegetable.
My handy little rice cooker
The daal in the pressure cooker
The saag being prepared
The daalbhat of the day
When the daalbhat is eaten the only thing that is left to do is the washing up. By 9.30 pm I'm usually in bed.
