My weekly routine

My weekly routine varies from week to week, but here's a timetable showing what I generally do throughout the week:

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Morning	Work -the earliest I start is at 9:40 and the latest I finish is at 14:35.	Work -the earliest I start is at 9:40 and the latest I finish is at 13:50.	Work - again, the earliest I start is at 9:40 and the latest I finish is at 13:50.	Work -The earliest I start is at 8:45 and the latest I finish is at 13:50.	TRAVEL!!! I normally travel to some place for the weekend, or I go on a day trip somewhere. I plan my lessons during the weekends too.	I'm always in a different city on a Saturday so there's no alternative I could put here. If I do a day trip, I'm most likely to do it on this day, and on the rare days that I am in Ciudad Real I'd probably be relaxing, meeting friends or studying.	If I've travelled somewhere, then this is the day I return on. If not, then this day is a day of rest. Well, not really because I do cleaning and tidying on Sunday's. I'd normally start off by washing my clothes in the late morning.*
Afternoon	I have lunch while watching 'The Good Wife', then I'll have a siesta* if I'm feeling tired afterwards. If not then I'll study a bit of Spanish or French.	Lunch again, while watching 'Aquí No Hay Quien Viva'*, and then maybe a siesta (haha).	Lunch while watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine - I really like to watch TV shows, and the only way to fit them all into my schedule is to watch them when I'm eating :) I also give private classes on Wednesday afternoons, one at 4pm and another at 5.	Lunch again while watching another TV show, like 'Broad City' then SIESTA!!!	If I don't travel I'd be having lunch while watching 'Grey's Anatomy', another TV show :D		Then I'd move onto cleaning the bathroom and my bedroom. I'd then have lunch while watching House of Cards - yes, I am a TV addict.
Evening	I usually have dinner while watching 'The Walking Dead' in the evening, and this is a time when I'd Skype one of my housemates from University.	I'd normally Skype my brother and then have dinner in the evening.	Dinner while watching 'Aquí no hay quien viva'. I normally Skype my mom and little sister on Wednesday evenings too.	I've arranged some language exchanges to practice my Spanish more, and I normally do them on a Thursday. One of them starts at 5pm, and then the other at 6:30.			I normally skype my twin sister in the evening, or maybe even watch a TV show with her - yes, another TV show!
Night	If I'm feeling up for it, I may go out for tapas with my friends, and if not then I'd watch a movie.	This is my favourite part of the day because I get to go to cinema with my friends for only 3,50 euros (about £2.60)!!!!*	If there are any live band concerts, then they'd normally be on a Wednesday and if I'm feeling up to it, then I'd go to them. For example, there was a live band Mardi Gras concert* a couple of weeks ago I went to, and my friend is singing at a jam session tomorrow. There aren't concerts every week, though so I mainly stay in on Wednesdays to relax, or study some French or Spanish, or maybe even do some of my Year Abroad project.	If I'm travelling, I'd be packing now, or maybe Skying another one of my housemates. Sometimes I go out for tapas too on Thursdays, or out to a bar or club because Thursday is a party night.	Friday is also a party night, but I'm rarely in Ciudad Real on Fridays.	Saturday is the last party night, but if I'm here on Saturday I'd normally meet up with my friends and go out for tapas.	I'd usually relax a little and then prepare for the week ahead on Sunday night :)

*Siestas are extremely common in Spain and I take full advantage of them when I haven't had enough sleep, because of my night owl tendencies. You have a siesta after lunch. I used to think that every Spanish person took one everyday, but you don't need to if you're not feeling tired. They're more common in the summer though because the heat makes you more sleepy.

*'Aquí No Hay Quien Viva' (No one Could Live here) is a really good Spanish comedy that follows the lives of a community of people living in the same block of flats in Madrid. It's quite funny and I enjoy watching it. Plus, it has really helped my Spanish. I've heard that other good Spanish TV shows are 'La que se avecina' (What's Yet to Come), 'Siete Vidas' (Seven Lives) 'Los Serrano' (The Serranos), Aída (a spin off from Siete Vidas) and Motivos Personales, but I have yet to watch these as American TV shows dominate my life, unfortunately.

The cast of Aquí No Hay Quien Viva.

*Here's a picture I took at the Mardi Gras concert I went to. We all had to dress up, but the saxophone player let us see his costume at the last moment, when he started undressing and revealed his onesie!

*A lot of Spanish houses and flats don't have dryers, because the climate is so much hotter than England's, so most people just hang their clothes up on their balcony, and if they don't have one they hang up their clothes on washing lines on the rooftops or even outside their windows!

Some washing I stumbled across while I was in Ávila.

My rooftop :) On hot days my clothes dry in less than 2 hours!

I hope you didn't find my weekly routine too boring, and too full of American TV shows!