No Gym

I'm not going to the gym today. My body is willing but my mind is weak. It's just that I didn't get much sleep. I slept at 5 in the morning. I woke up at eight which means I slept less than four hours. I feel sleepy but my body is still active. It's my brain that feels a bit weary.

I couldn't sleep early last night because I drank coffee during breakfast. The caffeine in that one packet of coffee must have been really potent. As much as I wanted to sleep, I just couldn't.

I've been going to the gym regularly. I love going to the gym. It's my place of solace. I like buring the calories. Besides, there's nothing much to do at home except read books. I love reading books but I prefer reading them at night. The temperature during the afternoons is just unbearable. It's probably 38 degrees outside. I'm sweating like a pig. I'm usually not bothered by the summer heat, but this heat is really unbearable.

My intolerance to heat is probably caused by one other thing. My hormones are fluctuating today. My core temperature is up. I'm hot both inside and out. I hate this time of the month.

It's hard to imagine that one month ago, today, I was in Guam. I took this really important exam. Guam was a really nice place. It's a small island much similar to the island where I now reside. Guam is smaller though. Way, smaller. Not to mention, way cleaner and way more orderly.

The streets in Guam are so perfect. There are no potholes or garbage by the side of the road. There's a speed limit, so there's no real danger when crossing the street. In fact, when I crossed the streets of Guam, the drivers stopped to let me pass. The drivers there are really disciplined. They follow traffic rules which I must say is a rare thing where I live.

I stayed in Guam for just three days and two nights. When we arrived there it was five in the morning. I was a bit jetlagged. I had a companion with me. She also went to Guam to take an exam.

I have fond memories of Guam. I remember spending an afternoon by the beach with my companion. We pulled two beach chairs and slept on them for about thirty minutes or so. It was about four in the afternoon and the sun was still very much warm. To cool ourselves we slept under the shade of a big tree. We couldn't hear the sea though. There were wave catchers a few meters away from the shoreline. It lessened the impact of the waves, so it rolled gently to the shore.

After our afternoon nap, we went to McDonald's to eat. We ate there two times. My companion wasn't such a risk taker. She wanted food which was familiar to her. I would have wanted to go to one of those Korean restaurants but was afraid that the food might be too expensive. It probably is. The burgers there cost around 5 US dollars. That's just way too expensive for a small meal. Their drinks were about two dollars which to me is a bit excessive.

We finally got to the hotel at about ten in the evening. We were pooped but we had spent the whole day touring the malls and shops. We even visited Underwater world which housed a gigantic aquarium. I was impressed though because I've seen a bigger and better aquarium in Hong Kong.

I read a few pages of my book before I slept. I slept at one in the morning. I woke up at nine in the morning. We took our four-hour exam at four pm. After that, we went to McDonald's again to purchase food.

We ate our meal at the hotel. We took out our room's table to the terrace. We had a fun meal, despite the fact that we were worried about the results of our exam. We slept early at around eleven pm. We woke up at three in the morning to catch our plane back to the Capital. That was the end of our short trip.

I haven't got my rating yet but through a website, I learned that I had passed the exam. My companion wasn't so fortunate. I'm just wating for my papers to arrive from the mail. After that I'm going to start my immigrant visa processing. Then, a few months from now, I'll be on my way to the land of milk and honey.