italian

Che ora è?
What time is it?
Literally: 'What time is (it)?'

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We are travelling to Australia in three days and I have no idea how my body will react to the long journey and the eleven hour time difference, as I've never travelled so far or across so many time zones.

My sleeping pattern being already somewhat erratic, I thought I could tweak it some more and get used to Australian time as soon as possible.

So now I have breakfast at 8pm, then I go to the gym, I have lunch at 1am and then try and stay up as long as I can.

I will then sleep until 9, go to work later than usual, and leave work later than usual too.

The objective is to stay awake during the London to Hong Kong flight (UK night time, Australia day time), then sleep on the Hong Kong to Sydney flight (Australia night time) and arrive fresh as a rose on Sunday morning.

Instead, I just feel shattered, and a bit confused.

Ho sonno e voglio dormire
I am sleepy and want to sleep
Literally: '(I) have sleep and (I) want to-sleep'.

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