A Busy Day...

So, for lack of better material for today and because some of you have frequently asked me what a regular day in my life here looks like...here goes...it was a busy one:
6:45a.m.: I woke up to walk. Katie and Jayme regularly walk and i don't get a ton of exercise here so I'm trying to take up the habit with them. I woke up this morning a little late but ran out the door, but couldn't meet up with them. Turned out that I missed Katie and I walked alone or so i thought! We both ended up walking alone (at the same time, on the same street) and probably passed each other up on opposite sides of the street!
Came home and got ready for class...
9:00a.m. Turkish class. There are five of us in class and we love our teacher. She's great, but i don't love what we're learning right now. This is actually a word: 'gitmemememi'...what a horribly long word, eh? I thought so, too. But there's a whole tense that resembles it. Today we learned how to say, 'i wish...' but I wish we didn't have to learn the '-memememi' tense!
10:30a.m. Class finishes. I had to finish off my lesson plans for my next class. I ordered lunch from a nearby cafe and they delivered. I had lunch at the office with our teacher and Craig and Katie and then finished up my lesson plans. They take a bit more time because for my younger class, I have to ready my English lesson as well as my Turkish disciplinary vocab (i don't use it on a regular basis: Please be quiet, Sit down, Listen to me when I'm talking to you, Show this class respect, and then if that doesn't work, yes i resorted one class to giving them candy if they behaved...this teaching thing is new for me!)
12:30p.m. I bus it to my English class. I had two back to back classes teaching a high school group and some younger children. The high schoolers are of course very worried about looking cool while they're speaking broken English--one would think i would be of encouragement because i look ridiculous (I am convinced) every time i open my mouth, but maybe I'm just scaring them from practicing!
3:00p.m. I rode the bus from my English classes to a local dessert shop. Me, Katie, and Melissa met up with our university friends for ice cream and to catch up. They've been a bit M.I.A. since the heat wave. Not that I blame them. We had a great visit.
Then about 5:00p.m., I grabbed some dinner and headed off to ladies bible study. We started tonight about 6:00 and then finished up about 9:00...so I headed home about 12 hours after I left today! What a busy day! This isn't always the norm, but lately there have been quite a few days like today. Yesterday was a bit slower. Katie hosted a tea in the afternoon, we made a new friend, and I taught night class. I guess the slow days balance out the crazy ones! And in the middle of all this routine and non-routine...there is Turkish. Just adds a whole another element to an already crazy day! But yesterday and today, slow and fast, I got to visit with friends and share myself with them and Who is in me. So, regardless of the speed of the day, I love that the heart of my day is still the same, to just love on people here in the middle of whatever I'm doing. Love on them in a way that I just couldn't do on my own...love on them in a way Only He can, and look for ways to show them why.