A Day in the Life of This Exchange Student*

I thought it might be interesting for people to read what a random day is like for me. Here goes:
5:12 Wake up with those leg cramps. Can't remember if you're supposed to point your foot down, or if you're supposed to point it towards you.
6:08 Wake up with more leg cramps. Still can't remember.
6:42 Yet again woken up by those gosh darn leg cramps.
6:45 First alarm goes off. I turn it off right away.
7:02 Second alarm goes off. I turn it off, but turn the lamp on next to my bed and try not to fall back asleep.
7:03-7:16 Do my best not to fall back asleep, but border that line until I realize I have to get out of bed!
7:17 Jump out of bed and get dressed. I wore jeans and a red sweater if anyone is curious.
7:19-7:28 Go downstairs and eat breakfast. Breakfast was cereal and a few pieces of an orange. After I finished breakfast, I put my contacts in, brushed my teeth, did my makeup and my hair. All that good stuff.
7:29 Go back upstaris and get my purse (that has my books), my phone, my dark green blazer I have to wear, and my basketball bag since I had basketball after school.
7:31 Go back downstairs and get ready to leave.
7:34 Leave with my host mom.
7:51 Get to school. Traffic was busy this morning. I swear it's never the same! Ever.
7:56 Arrive at the biology room since it's my first lesson.
8:00-8:45 Have my biology module lesson. I have a biology book in English so I just read and take notes from that.
8:55-9:40 Have my second biology lesson. More of the same.
9:50-10:35 Go to math class. I don't understand anything! I just copy down what the teacher has on the board, and write a problem down from my book and stare at it. I'm two years behind my class here.
10:36 Class ends. I go to make copies of Justina's (my friend) English workbook since I don't have one.
10:41-10:55 Wait outside the English room and help Justina with her English homework.
10:56-11:40 English lesson. Boring for me. I don't really like it. I also gave Justina the wrong answer on a quesion or two. Whoops!
11:42 Go to the Ethic's room since it's my next class, and see a note that the teacher is gone and we're supposed to go to the religion room.
11:44 Decide not to go to Ethics so Justina and I go to Akropolis (that big mall) with our friend Greta.
11:52-12:46 Hang out at Akropolis. I got a liter of orange juice (it's very common to carry one around and drink from the carton here) and a package of M&Ms and we sat near Vero Cafe. It's like their Starbucks, but it's not everywhere.
12:47 Go back to school.
12:55 I go to my dance lesson.
12:55-1:40 I sit in the dance lesson. It's supposed to be a double lesson, so for the first part, we learn about different dances and their history. Most of it gets translated into English for me.
13:40 Class ends. The girls in the class talk our way out of having the acutal dance lesson. Woohoo! All my lessons are over!
13:46 Meet back up with Justina (who was in Chemistry) and tell her there's no second lesson. We try to think of what to do because the sixth lesson just ended and there is a meeting in the student council thing we joined after the seventh lesson.
13:49 Go to talk to the vice principal who is the head of the student council to see if we need to wait around for the meeting. Yes, we do.
13:51-14:35 (seventh lesson) We designed the papers that say what activities are on which day next week. Our school's birthday is next week, so that's pretty exciting. Kind of.
14:37 Other kids in on student council arrive. It's not really a meeting, but we just showed up to get information on things we should do next week.
15:04 I leave because I had to get soemthing to eat before I had to go to basketball. I went back to Akropolis and got something from the bakery in Maxima, the supermarket. It was just bread with melted cheese. So good.
15:28 Get to the bus stop to wait for trolley 7 or 13 that will take me to baksetball.
15:31 Trolley 13 arrives and I get on.
15:53 Get off the trolley and walk to the school were basketball training is.
16:01 Am in the locker room when I'm told there's no practice since the school is under construction and we can't use the gym.
16:09 Talk with a few of the girls that were there and see if we want to do something like go to Akropolis. We decide to go home.
16:10-16:24 Wait for bus 36 to take me home.
16:24 Get on the bus.
16:57 Arrive back at home. Come upstairs and check my email and finsih my orange juice.
17:04 I finished my orange juice and everything on the computer. Decide to read a little more of Mockingjay. I'm reading it yet again! I think the books in the Hunger Games series are some of the best books ever written. At least equal to Harry Potter in my eyes, though you can't really compare them. They're too different.
17:33 Go back downstaris to make hot chocolate. I talk a little with my host mom while she makes dinner. Mostly I watched a TV show that was filmed in Spanish, so you can hear it in the background. There is a voiceover in Lithuanian though. It's confusing for me because I'm learning both of those languages!
18:12 Eat a very good dinner of mashed potatoes and some fresh meat and carrots. Extremely good.
18:38 Do the dishes. Yes, I do the dishes here, but I'm not going to do them at home mom!
19:04 (there were a lot of dishes) Come back upstairs and write my weekly email to my mother.
19:43 Start a blog post about 'A Day in the Life of This Exchange Student'
20:16 Publish Post

*Every exchange student's 'life' is different. Also, every day is different for me. I've been here two and a half months and not one day has been the same. I just thought this might be interesting. Also, the day isn't finished at the time of publishing this, but there's nothing interesting I'm going to do.

Also, I promise I'll put some pictures up soon! Hopefully that will be my next post.