Necessary walking

This little bit is an excerpt from an email I wrote my Mom - I realized I hadn't shared my daily walks with you...

We live 3 blocks from the bus stop when we're going in to town - uphill and up stairs.

Coral's school is roughly 6, maybe 8 blocks away from the metro.

My school is maybe 4 blocks from the tram stop.

My classes are on the first and second floors - the bathrooms are on the 3rd - I work on the second floor two buildings over from the bathrooms - yes -i've been going down the stairs, around the church, and up 3 flights of stairs to go to the bathroom - I just found out there is a bathroom in my building only few steps down the stairs. (However that bathroom doesn't have a light or toilet paper or paper towels)

When we get home we go roughly 4 blocks, again up hill, and up more stairs in order to get to our street.

We live on the 4th floor. (The elevator has broken twice since we've lived there. The second time was today while Coral was inside.)

The cafe and small grocery store are about 3 blocks away, the large groceries stores require a different bus, also about 3 blocks away.

Coral's classrooms are on the 2 or 3rd floor - or around the corner from the main school. She babysits a little boy she picks up about 8 or 9 blocks from her school and about 6 blocks from the metro.

The stairs i'm talking about are not to get you up above a room with an 8 or a 10 foot ceiling - these are probably 20 foot ceilings in the main school buildling, at least on the bottom floors.

Every metro has stairs too.

In otherwords - there is an insane amount of climbing and walking being done on a daily basis - this doesn't even take in to consideration general errands and touristy stuff - this is just the must do stuff