A Week of Crazy

This week has been kind of crazy. We have had two visits by the plumber and are waiting for an electrician to stop by at some point. Our toilet has been leaking for a while now. One of our students stopped by to look at it and told us it was the water intake pipe that fills the bowl that was leaking and when they installed the toilet they did not put something in. He called the plumber for us and he came the next day. Things with construction workers are a little different down here. It is expected that you clean up after them and they leave it alone. There is a ton of soot all over the toilet room in our washroom. It is rather difficult to clean up. We are still working on it. On Tuesday night I was cooking and went to turn on the faucet to wash a dish. I turned the knob and the entire faucet came shooting off. I was trying to plug the pipe and reach under the sink to shut off the water. Once I got the water shut off I was soaked as was the entire kitchen. I cleaned up and kept on cooking. While cooking I had my iPod playing some music and all of a sudden I had a strobe light happening. I mean, it was kind of fitting to the music but not normal. I looked at our kitchen light and it was going crazy. An electrician is coming to look at the light and figure out if it is the bulb or the starter that needs to get replaced. Ah the joys of being the house supervisor, huh? The plumber came back today and fixed our sink. We are kind of excited that the sink exploded on me because now we have a wonderful new faucet that actually lets us fill up a bowl in the sink without having to hold it there. This was a much simpler fix and there isn’t a mess to clean up! Yay!

All three of us have become sick this week too. Dan started off the weekend really not feeling good. As we were going through academy classes and open practice times you could see him getting worse. When he got back to the house we found out he had a temp. Claire was next to be hit by the bug. We knew she was sick because she was freezing. That doesn’t happen in Guyana. Her temp had been all over the place. I was the last one to get hit with it. I came down with a temp last night, and I ended up sleeping over ten hours which is way more than normal for me. It makes sense that we all got sick around the same time since we work, live, and do everything else together. I managed to avoid it the first time, but not this time. None of us have been bad enough that we can’t teach at least.

Hopefully the insanity of this week does not become a normal thing for us. I don’t think we could handle that for the next six weeks. Why is it that we always wanted to grow up so fast? The world can throw such crazy curve balls at you! Anyways, I hope you all enjoy your week. Cherish the time you have and the good things happening in your life. You never know what curve ball the world has waiting for you in the next few days.

*I woke up this morning (Thursday) and no longer have a fever and feel way better, so yay!