So, turned out the water leak wasn’t a made up thing. That was Wednesday, about one and a half week ago. I wanted to shoot myself. On top of it, we had the delivery of the bed the following Saturday which obviously couldn’t happen when there were piles of plaster and shit all over. I was told that they for sure were going to be done on Saturday. I was sceptic, but lo and behold, they were!
I came here on Saturday morning, preparing for the worst, but found a woman and her 2 kids cleaning the place. The kids not cleaning so much, given they were about six and one and a half. ACK! My Swedish, socialist, rich global north heart broke! Small children with runny noses should be with a baby sitter or something! But what can you do? Some hours later, when I returned, big sister was carrying her baby brother in a shawl on her back. No complaints were heard but it was a bit too much for me, so I took her outside and bought some fruit and candy.
Yesterday I managed to go to JapOn (where we bought washing machine, oven and fridge) and explain to them that the display on our oven doesn’t work, that I don’t know why and that I didn’t try the oven immediately after it was installed because we had a water leak and the place was full of workers, and that i DID ask if there was problem because the the outlet was for 220v and the oven’s plus for 110 but that I was told over and over again that there was no problem. “No problemos/no preocupe” are frequently used frases here. But yeah, I did manage to tell them there is a problem now and they are sending a technician on Monday or Tuesday. I am mighty proud of myself.
Then I went hunting for a table, which took the rest of the day. I was close to giving up, because everything is very big, heavy in dark woods or glass, which is not our style. Finally, with help of Vivi, I was taken to a market and found a dark table with 4 chairs plus cushions and home delivery for 130. Vivi was a big help with price negotiation.
In the evening we had our huasipichai, the moving in party, which was pretty successful.