Free Time

Life with a 14-month-old can never really be described as one having a lot of relaxing free time, but...  The fact of the matter is that we do tend to have somewhat more free time here in Bangladesh than one does in the States, and many fewer distractions.  Our commute is a 5 min walk down a little side street to the office, we don't spend time driving anywhere to shop, there are no TV shows to schedule our lives around (there are lots of Bangla TV shows, we just don't have a TV), the work day is generally an hour shorter than in the States, and we have hired people to help us with our cooking and cleaning.  

Once you get used to and more comfortable with being hot most of the time, you find that you have a lot more opportunity to get through books, and other tasks that you used to not find time for, or at least were easily distracted from.  In general, I find that I am probably about 2-4 times as busy as I was during my Peace Corps service, but there, I had no electricity or mobile phone or internet to coordinate new things to do.  And still, one finds the opportunity to do things you might not otherwise find the patience to do back home, like read thick books.

So, what do we do with our free time?  Well, we worked out a little routine together to remind us all of home.  It took Ezra a little while to learn the footwork, but in the end we were pretty impressed.  Hope you enjoy watching the clip below.

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