One Down and One to Go....

The pharmacy that owns our flat came and took one of the three refrigerator that have been making our flat an obstacle course since January. Why, you may ask, did we have three fridges? That is a very good question. One that I will try to answer since I am not really sure myself. When we arrived here in August we had to plug our fridge in. It took it a long time to cool off. We were excited because we had a huge fridge with a BIG freezer. Most of our friends had very small, dorm sized ones. Well it just didn't seem that things were staying very cool. My milk went bad after a few days. I told Lucie about it and she said it must have been bad milk. Then our meat went bad. So I only kept veggies and drinks in the fridge and put the meat in the freezer. I asked the school to get it fixed.

I put a thermostat inside of it and it measured 53 degrees F. It should be around 35-40. I asked again for it to be fixed. This went on until December. One of my neighbors who speaks English asked me if I needed a fridge about two weeks before Christmas. I told him that I did in fact. The day after we put his fridge in our flat, the motor burned out and blew a fuse. This was the two days before Christmas. So then we had to put everything back in the old fridge and throw out everything in the freezer because it thawed. So when we went back to school, I told them that both fridges were not working. It took Kelly, our regional director, to give an ultimatum to get us a new fridge. The pharmacy brought us a small dorm sized fridge and fixed the fridge that our neighbor gave us. But they didn't remove the original fridge. Viola! Three large kitchen appliances and no where to put them all. We had two in the kitchen and one in the entry way which made it hard to go in and out of the front door. Then someone from the school said they were going to get the little fridge but they never came. That was in February. So finally, we are back to two. Hopefully, we will be down to one soon. But I'm not holding my breath!

This weekend is the End of the Year retreat for ESI teachers. I hope it will be relaxing and a good time to catch up with teachers I don't get to see very often. I hope y'all have a great weekend!