A Week in the Life of a Yoylie: Wonderful Wednesday

Wednesdays are one of the best YOYL days. Firstly,because Wednesday isn't Tuesday. Secondly because we have theology class. This,ladies and germs of cyber space,is what a Wednesday looks like...

5:30 Alarm goes off. Sit up in bed and look around.
5:40 Get up and collect things for a shower.
5:45 Remember there is sport today,making showering pointless at this moment in time.Get back in bed.
6:00 Get up and pack backpack with shorts,Theology notebook and extra hair elastics.
6:10 Read Bible.
6:30 Go downstairs and eat Pronutro while watching Morning Live.
6:45 Look around for ever evasive lunch bag.
6:50 Find lunch bag in pantry as usual. Pack lunch.
7:00 Go downstairs to wait for lift.
7:05 Journal and Mxit to pass time.
7:20 Get in car.
7:45 Arrive at church. Take bag down to Yoyl Room. Due to extra items,bag is unable to fit in locker. Stash bag under table.
8:00 Sit on bean bag waiting for Grant.
8:05 Give up waiting and boil kettle. Make tea and coffee for various friends and whiners.
8:15 Engage in intelligent dicussions,such as the funny moments in an asfd movie or the newest addition to the Wall of George.
8:25 Realize Grant is very late and break the rules by playing music on a cell phone.
8:35 Have more coffee.
8:40 Race to hide cell phones under bean bags,in lockers and,occasionally,in shoes as Grant descends the stairs.
8:45 After hi5s all round,Grant tells us who will be sharing during Devotions.
8:50 Devotions,followed by prayer.
9:20 Everyone gets changed into shorts and puts sunscreen on.
9:30 Get told by Grant to put more sunscreen on.
9:35 Team captains get assigned and teams are picked for soccer,Ultimate Frisbee or Tails.
9:40 Rejoice in not getting picked last and the games begin.
10:15 Water break,during which Grant makes me put more sunscreen on.
10:25 Games recommence,with a few players down due to injury,illness or laziness.
11:25 The game finally ends and everyone goes inside to drink more water,wash dusty feet and change into regular clothing.
11:30 Drink juice in Yoyl Room and collect Theology notebook and Bible. Book a space on a bean bag.
11:35 Jam arrives. After making sure everyone has their Bibles and notebooks and dispensing black dots to those who don't,he starts the lesson.
12:30 Theology ends,homework is given and Jam departs. Everyone jumps up and runs to lockers to gather lunch.
12:35 Go upstairs to kitchen to get water/juice/leftovers.
12:45 See how many people can be crammed onto one picnic bench. Swop one or two lunch items. Eat food.
13:00 Make noodles for those too pathetic to do it themselves.
13:10 Eat some of some one's noodles.
13:30 Grant come and call a meeting in Yoyl Room.
13:35 Congregate noisily and try hear as Grant explains the rest of the days activities.
13:40 Try to look at Grant without laughing as he explains again.
13:45 Just smile as Grant writes the activities on the board as he explains them.
13:55 Watch the less fortunates prepare to babysit,wash three cars,bake shortbread and make the entire office coffee. Go up to office and wait on the couch.
13:15 Take over office duty from the secretary,Ruthie. Fold booklets/check email lists/blog.
13:20 Answer anything between 4 and 28 (the record highest,held by yours truly) phone calls,including a few prank calls. Answer intercom and attempt to open gates.
16:00 Switch phone to night mode and go down to Yoyl Room.
16:05 Make coffee. Collect bag,shoes,phone,notebooks and other random items.
16:10 Hang out in foyer listening to music and talking about nothing and everything.
16:25 Leave
16:45 Arrive home. Go upstairs. Dig through bag looking for something edible.
17:00 Give up and go downstairs for an apple.
17:30 Journal.
18:00 Set table. Eat supper.
18:45 Wash plate and hands. Go upstairs.
20:00 Shower.
20:15 Read. Log onto Mxit
20:45 Journal.
21:15 Unpack backpack
21:20 Re-pack backpack.
21:30 Try decide what to wear the next day.
21:45 Give up and lie on bed.
22:00 Fall asleep.
22:30 Wake up and brush teeth.
22:45 Read
23:00 Tidy room.
23:20 Place floor fan on chair right by the head of my bed.
23:30 Remember things not yet packed in bag.
23:45 Finally get up and pack things like CDs and books people want to borrow.
00:00 Get in bed and try stay awake to talk to overseas sibling who appears to have forgotten the 8hr time difference.
00:30 Fall asleep.
1:15 Wake up and apologize. Reply to messages received in the mean time.
1:30 Log off Mxit and go to sleep.

Wonderfully unTuesday and gloriously full,that is what a Yoylie's Wednesday consists of.

A Week in the Life of a Yoylie: Typical Tuesday

Tuesdays come soon after Mondays. For a Yoylie,the week begins on this particular day. It comes with a lot of coffee,tiredness and wet clothing...

5:30 Alarm goes off.Wake up and put on snooze.Go back to sleep.
5:35 Get up.Collect things for a shower.Realize some one has beaten me to the bathroom. Sit on bed trying to stay awake.Fail.
5:50 Wake up and rush to the shower.
6:05 Pack backpack with the day's essentials such as batteries,2 minute noodles and hair elastics.
6:15 Read Bible.
6:45 Go downstairs.Eat Pronutro while watching Morning Live.
7:00 Go downstairs (to ground level) to wait for lift.
7:05 Run upstairs to collect various forgotten items.
7:10 Go downstairs to wait for lift.
7:15 Wait.
7:20 Wait.
7:25 Wait.
7:30 Get in the car.
8:00 Arrive at church and make coffee.
8:10 Go down to the Yoyl Room. Put things in locker. Take off shoes (if indeed wearing any)
8:15 Grant arrives and gives the day's schedule...twice. Grant writes the schedule on the whiteboard and explains it again.
8:30 Stack about 300 chairs and move them from the small hall to the auditorium. Arrange chairs incorrectly.
9:15 Mix 20 litres of juice in large bottles. Stack 150 plastic cups. Set up 2 trestle tables with 5 jugs of juice and 50 glasses.
9:30 Get called back to rearrange chairs. Collect tennis balls,soccer balls and cones.
9:45 Go down pre-school and collect a group of about 20 6 and 7 year olds. Teach them to throw,catch,kick and run. Play duck duck goose and tag.
10:15 Return group and collect about 25 5 year olds. Repeat exercise with less success.
10:30 Return group and collect about 15 2,3 and 4 year olds. Show them how to catch a ball. Stop them from running away. Comfort crying ones. Give up teaching them to throw. Play duck duck goose.
10:45 Return group. Go back to the Yoyl Room. Have coffee. Wash dusty feet and pack away equipment. Eat a few bites of lunch.
11:00 Tidy and vacuum 5 storerooms.Wash 2 cars. Get a bucket of water thrown over me. Have coffee.
12:30 LUNCH TIME!!! Have coffee.
13:00 Go down to Yoyl Room and wait for Grant.
13:15 Vacuum behind curtains in small hall.
13:30 Have coffee.
13:40 Wash 3 cars.
15:30 Go down to Yoyl room for coffee.
15:45 Check church grounds for litter.
16:00 Meet up in the Yoyl Room to be released. Unpack locker.
16:10 Make 2 minute noodles. Hang out on cappuccino counter till waiting for lift.
16:30 Leave.
16:50 Arrive at home. Shower.
17:10 Find something to eat.
17:30 Read.
18:00 Eat supper.
18:45 Wash dishes.
19:00 Chill upstairs.
19:30 Home group.
21:30 Have Milo and Rusks
22:00 Go upstairs. Log onto Mxit.
22:15 Journal.
22:45 Get in bed.
23:15 Get up and brush teeth.
23:20 Get distracted by Blue Like Jazz.
00:10 Put book down and go to sleep.

And that,dear cyber space,is what a Yoylie does on a typical Tuesday.

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A Week in the Life of a Yoylie: Mundane Monday

Because of Sunday being a full working day,we yoyls get Mondays off. While the rest is welcome,Mondays are fairly boring..

5:30 Wake up.Realize it's Monday. Go back to sleep.
6:00 Wake up and panic. Realize it's Monday.Go back to sleep
6:30 Jump out of bed. Realize it's Monday. Get back in bed. Go back to sleep.
7:00 Wake up. Realize you've done it again. Go back to sleep
8:00 Wake up.Get fed up with waking up. Get out of bed and read.
8:30 Wander around.
9:30 Go downstairs and eat meusli,because today there's time to spend hours chewing through oats and seeds,while watching TV
10:00 Wash bowl.Check facebook.Load the week's photos.
10:30 Read Bible and journal
11:30 Put on a kilogram of subscreen and walk up to the university for the free lunch hour concert.
12:00 Realize we left early again. Hang around trying to look like students instead of loiterers.
12:15 Watch concert.
13:10 Start the long trek home.
13:30 Arrive home and collapse on couch
13:35 After downing too much water,eat lunch while watching something constructive and stimulating,such as the cricket or Tube.Log onto Mxit
14:00 Tidy room.
14:15 Discover the wonders of long lost bubble mixture and floor fans.
14:20 Stop filling the room with bubbles and tidy.
14:30 Read some of a book I thought was lost
14:40 Tidy room
15:00 Journal,try catch up on the whole week's activities.
16:00 Reply to emails.Check facebook..again..
17:00 Set the table for supper.
17:15 Fall asleep.
17:30 Read.
18:00 Eat supper
18:30 Chill at the table.
18:45 Wash hands and clear up.
19:00 Shower
20:00 Watch Survivour.log onto Mxit..agin
21:00 Have Milo while discussing Survivour.
21:30 Brush teeth.Read
22:00 Log onto Mxit
23;00 Fall asleep.

 And that is my Mundane Monday..