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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