Took a typical trip to Frailes (my near by “hub-town”) today. Forgot the stuff I needed to bring to do what I wanted, forgot to buy the things I needed and couldn't find the things I did remember. But I'm pretty unstressed about out. Learned my lesson on that one. My lessons are planned, I studied Spanish for a bit and I bought some oatmeal for breakfast this week (no more soda crackers for breakfast!)
Classes went well today and I came home to a pleasantly surprising scene: three women installing a sink. This seemed pretty unusual given the machismo culture here but then again women are responsible for doing pretty much everything in the house. Anyway, a little background on this sink. We recently got a new toilet, smaller and dark green, installed far too close to the old sink. I couldn't figure what they were thinking. I could barely get my whole bottom on it. Then they bought a new sink but it was sitting outside my room in the hall for over a month. I was surprised to still see it there when I came home from vacation.
So today my host mom, host sister and her best friend were squeezed into our tiny bathroom debating and configuring and connecting the new sink. When I got back from Frailes though it turned into a comedy of errors. My host mom had gone to get a new tube/pipe and then my host dad joined the mix, purely to add his two cents (not to actually help). Next thing I know the four of them are jammed in there, my host mom on the toilet, the best friend holding her phone for light and Kimberly drilling a hole with my host dad “supervising”. What a scene. And after all that the new pipe wasn't the answer and they had to bring in 3 of the 5 different pipes they'd brought out to the garage. Still not sure if its working...
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