Mirror mirror on the wall

I also read this from http://www.aiic.net/ViewPage.cfm/article2310.htm. As far as some people I've met in Japan and Spain, it's dead-on accurate (this is a Taiwanese example).

David Long is really big on laying out time charts of daily routines to demonstrate just how little local language exposure the average expat receives.

07:00 - 08:00: Wake up, shower, eat breakfast in the room while watching CNN.
09:00 -12:00: IMBA classes, in English
12:00 -15:00: Lunch, nap, homework, study, meet with English-speaking friends to complain about Taiwan.
15:00 -19:30: Teach English.
19:30 -20:30: Eat dinner in the room watching illegally-downloaded episodes of American TV shows.
20:30 - 00:00: Study, homework, gym, beer, complain about life in Taiwan.
00:00 - 07:00: Sleep.

Now, guess how much of that I do??? Yes, the first thing I do when I get online (often before getting out of bed) is check my emails and cnn. I bookmarked bbc in Spanish ages ago and never look at it.

Currently my classes are in English, but last semester was frustrating the hell out of me, which is a shame because a friend of mine from the same Spanish intensive course was there and apparently understood, so since we should have been at the same level of Spanish, hers was obviously better.

And I do everything else, even teach English while learning Italian, and I watch illegally downloaded American TV shows.

.....yeah.