Unexpected hazards.

When I first looked into working in Kyrgyzstan everything I read was positive: beautiful scenery, nice people.  Then I accepted the job and then it seemed that everything I read negative: earthquakes, rabies, freezing cold weather.As a woman with M.E I have to a certain extent lost my career.  I had to go part time at the college with all that meant in terms of status and pay.  But I was also determined as my health improved that it would not stop me fulfilling my aim of working abroad. Full time employment in Senegal was 8 to 1 everyday except Friday when we finished at 1. I also had to do a couple of afternoons.  Provided I pop home and sleep or go an have a leisurely lunch, not do much over the weekend, except my prep, I was just about okay - my periods of sickness mainly coincided the holidays and because there was a lot of staff all I had to do was text in and say I cannot manage it today and I knew someone would cover me. I was never made to feel bad about taking time off sick and usually struggled in even after a terrible stomach bug that had me sick in the shower, the day that the inspectors were coming in.

Since then I have had a patchwork of work. At the ROH I sometimes had double shifts and would pay for them later on in the week and recently I have often had to do 6/7 days work a week, but often short days with a break then more work and bit by bit I have been doing over 30 hours a week most of the time which is why I felt that provide that the days were not too long at Bilimkana I should be able to sort of return to a career job.   I was upfront about the condition, or thought I was and that I felt I could try a proper job provided the length of days were not too long. I now have my after class schedule, starting from tomorrow I will not finish till 4.40.  I start (admittedly later than the others) usually at 9.  So it is the long day I have been fearing ever since I got here.  M.E is not something I have a choice about, push myself too hard, and my health keels over, but I do not want it to stop me either. So I am going to give it a go.  It will be more longer continuous hours and days than I have done in a long while, but I will try.

Meanwhile the teacher who does all the printing and promised me that he would show me how to print everything last Friday (but then did not)  has gone to Biskek and no one knows how long for/. At the weekend I discovered that some of the rubbish being dumped locally is asbestos.  I tell you that made me want to just get on the nearest plane and fly home. But I am always more fragile when ill.   And I have a horrible feeling I just saw raw meat being cut on the same board that might be used for other foods.  So lots of things that I had not expected even with the things that I thought I had expected. Meanwhile by tomorrow one of the rooms in the still being built school will be ready for my first kruzhki class - or after school class.  HELP!!!