Daily Grind

I've found that living abroad people always think you're doing wild, crazy and fabulous things. I even assume this about others (I'm looking at you Jade and Toby). I assume this even though I know that while living abroad sounds exotic, the truth is you're just living your day to day life as you would anywhere. A friend recently equated it to being on a roller-coaster where all the highs and lows of your normal life are strangely magnified. 

So in an effort to dispel you of the notion that we're constantly hanging out with fabulous foreigners, in exotic Czech bars drinking strange Czech beers and eating foreign delicacies, I give you a typical day in photo format.

I start my morning by getting up, rubbing sleep from my eyes and jumping in the shower

Kept Man in the meantime gets up and makes me a breakfast of oatmeal and bananas

Doesn't he look happy to be awake with me in the morning?

I make a coat selection

And bundle myself up

I walk out of our apartment building

And walk towards Andel

I ride the tram to Hellichova where I get off

And walk towards the back work entrance. The building in blue is a school. I grumble about all those damn whippersnappers take up space on the morning tram as I walk by

And I make the final turn to enter the hotel

And then I'm in the office

At my desk

working. with no window. sigh. fun times

And after crunching some numbers I leave the hotel once evening rolls around

And walk to my tram stop

Which is in front of a church

Once I get on the tram I look out the window

To see the people, cars and

shops passing by

Then I walk towards home

enter our building

climb up to our landing

And it's slipper time!

Where the man is waiting

As is the booze

and the food....mmmm chocolate fondant

And then after catching up with Kept Man and watching a couple of shows or a movie it's off to bed and in the morning it starts all over again.  And so I leave you disillusioned of our exotic Czech Republic life but hopefully smiling over a silly video of Kept Man cooking which is the best part of my day. He might soon have a job. I might go into serious withdrawals. I suppose I will survive. Wish him good luck.