Poor bunny, that carrot doesn't seem so appealing to him right now.
As much as I've tried to get on a regular schedule this fall, I seem to get bursts of energy and then crash.
One of my textbooks pointed out that this is part of Russian culture and is a remnant of peasant life: periods of quiet, alternating with intense periods of labor, due to the harvest season.
Last week was school vacation week, so I didn't have to go to the orphanage in the afternoons. Not to mention, November 4th was "Unity Day," so I had a whole day off. I was planning to spend the week catching up with friends whom I haven't seen since getting back to Russia. But I got sick right after the church retreat, and had very little energy to do anything other than attend class in the mornings. more/-
I was a bit nervous about this being a full work week. It sounded so daunting. I realize that for most people, this is normal life, but it felt like I had had a lot of false starts and then got interrupted by sickness or other distractions. So a whole new week stretching out before me seemed like a mountain too big to climb.
But the week is actually going fine. And with two days behind me, the end is in sight!
I still need to do my homework, but my energy burst has ended. Oops!
Maybe THAT is one reason I think of my work as akin to a "family farm" - not just the involvement of the family. A huge "harvest" as we start up in the fall....and "planting season" ...all the intense work associated with Holy Week and Easter, then First Communion. Very cyclical.
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