Yesterday was pretty boring. The morning didn’t hold anything special other than the ability to shower! In my first few weeks here, my morning routine consisted of breakfast and a shower. Warm water isn’t a luxury I have, so the cold morning showers really helped to jolt me awake. Without them I was feeling a bit sluggish.
My entire day was spent on one task—Power Query transformation of some survey responses. The task should have taken a seasoned professional no more than an hour. For me it took about eight. However, it was fairly rewarding because my main hurdles were just learning the software and now I have a new skill under my belt.
For lunch I went to the market to get some potatoes for dinner. I haven’t been finding myself very hungry come midday and have only been eating two meals, albeit very generous and large. Because I don’t take lunch, so I’m alone at the office for nearly two hours every day. I think if I didn’t take a little break I would die of boredom, so yesterday my lunch was spent buying some potatoes.
The rest of my day, as already alluded to, was more of the same thing. A constant struggle with the excel sheets, and a little bit of progress.
As I promised, here is a picture of my new mosquito net set up. I found a way to create some tension and raise the center of the net by tying a bag filled with some weight and tossing it behind my headboard. I also tied down the corners to my fitted bedsheet (another upgrade helping with that tension and creating more space for me underneath the net). I’m very proud of the progression this little net that bunches up into the size of a fist has made.
I’m happy to say I didn’t have the same troubles as the previous night—no mosquitoes got into my sanctuary and I was free from new bites in the morning. Unfortunately mosquito bites are a slow burn though, and the previous attack only to affect me in the middle of the night as the bites raised and started itching. In spite of the itchiness, I slept well and got some extra sleep because today is yet another holiday I wasn’t made aware of until leaving work yesterday evening! I’m not sure what today will hold, but I think I’ll try to do a little bit of work, put together my altered itinerary a bit more, and then go out for lunch and explore the city some more.