10/29/2012

It's just 4:00 pm and we are supposed to be in Spanish class but here we are at home trying to straighten out yet another problem in our apartment.  Yesterday we couldn't get our stove to work and finally figured out that the gas wasn't getting through.  So now in the kitchen we have no power and no stove that we used to be able to light with a match if we didn't have power.  I wonder just what else could happen but don't want to find out!   Finally Danny came up and told us that the apartment owner had not paid the maintenance fee she owes the lady in charge of the apartments.  For five months - you would think they would have said something to us before they just up and turned off the gas.  We always get the threat of them shutting off the power because their electronic system somehow does not show them that the church has paid the bill.  That also happens with no notice.  One good thing happened in our apartment today - the water quit dripping from the ceiling in the bathroom.  Guess Joel was right about the water from the Hurricane causing a back up of water somehow.  Since we are on the 4th floor of an 11 story building and there are no open areas I just wonder how that happens.  The elevator is out for another six days so walking those flights of stairs has been good for us but not fun.
     All in all, I'm glad that night is here.  Maybe tomorrow we will get something or things fixed!  I don't know what has happened to Ekbert and his mother that we really enjoyed (they were in charge of this apartment) but for the last three months we haven't been able to get ahold of them at all.  Her phone is no longer in service and his is always full of messages.  I hope they are ok.