Lazy day after a long week

It has indeed been a long and busy week regarding work and this weekend was definitely needed. After facing intense parents for 4 hours spread over two evenings after the school days, energy levels were at a low when it came to teaching enthusiastic 6 year olds. I managed to squeeze in a visit to El Rehab (another city within Cairo about 45 minutes from my place) to see some guys from the crew for dinner, an evening of excellent guitar playing (not that I can strum or change chords quickly enough to save my life) and some challenging competition around the pool table. I managed to get to the black ball in 2 out of 3 of my games played with the third game just ending in disaster. Our tournament pool team, Cue Tips are made up of girls and even though we are the only female competing team, we still manage to bring some firey challenge to the other teams. However, Tuesday night was an epic fail...ouch!

The weekend was nice and relaxed in comparison with an early night on Thursday after some pool practice and an early morning rise on Friday for some long awaited netball games! It was just a practice session before the beginning of the tournament next Friday, but I definitely need to work on my defending skills! The day ended in a busy party for 2 couple's engagement celebrations where loads of people from school got together. As for today, I have attempted to run another 10km but failed at 2.5km and felt sick out of the blue. I felt fine after walking back that same stretch and now it is time for some epic movie and duvet banter. Chilling and getting ready for hopefully a more relaxed week ahead.

Hope all is well in the land of the English speakers :D

Freezing!

It's Saturday morning and I am sitting on my sofa and it is freezing! Can you believe that my fingers have actually started to go white? That has only happened when I've lived in the UK and when I went to China in the winter. I did manage to pull myself out of bed this morning and run 10k! That's 2 more than last week, so improvement is looking well.

Last night my friends organised a surprise party for my friend's 30th birthday. I got so excited, I just love surprises. Actually it was really her husband that organised everything, we just showed up. He had an itinerary for the whole day and she had no idea about anything. She was super surprised when we were all waiting for her in her house hehe and she was so happy!

Well it's been a long week in school and everyone is just trying to settle back into routine but the cold weather here is at an all time low making it much harder to get up out of bed in the morning. I hope the warm weather comes back soon, I don't like feeling lazy! Anyway, I must go and organise my day and do something productive. :)

Happy 2012

It's been a great start to the day...managed to run 8 km in the Wadi Degla before 10am struck and even threw a few chores in there when I got home. I've got a few New Years Resolutions but I have no idea if they will stick or not. One of them is to update this blog once a week because it is blatantly obvious that I just can't keep up with a everyday. Hahah I don't think I even lasted a week doing that! Another is one from last year which is to keep in touch with people better. I'm just rubbish at it and need to be proactive instead of lazy! I get caught up in what is going on around me that I just lose touch with the rest of the world...not cool. So that's the plan, I just need to be more proactive which can reach into other areas of my life.

I want to be more organised in work so that it doesn't become so stressful (but who knows if that will actually help!). I want to improve my dancing technique too so that I'm no longer just a beginner. There are so many things that could be improved in myself but I think that's human nature to see our own faults more than what we have already achieved. I think that it is important that we are always growing and learning new things otherwise life just seems to get a bit boring.

I'm in a place where I know that I have so many things to be thankful for; I am so privileged in many ways and often it is easy to forget. I need to try and appreciate more all the things I have in my life and see things in a positive way as much as possible and live every moment to the max. I think that sounds like a good way forward...