I could only spend my bitcoin to recharge my mobile or for gambling. not much just that for the time being.
Active usage of bitcoin mostly takes place while placing bets, rather than that I prefer to convert to local currency and use it because of the limited acceptance of bitcoin in mycountry.
I have the same issue. There is no merchants here in our country that accepts bitcoin as payment. So for now, I am converting it to fiat first before I can use it. I hope someday merchants from here also adopt bitcoin as payment so I can easily use it without having to convert first.