You know something is wrong when it is raining inside and not outside....

So today I have an adventure to report! I didn’t even have to leave my apartment to experience it. Lately in the mornings we’ve been having problems with our water going off. This happens some times because something happens to the town water and we are then put on reserve tanks. I just thought it was something like this. But then we heard water running somewhere around us, sounding like it was coming from above. Our apartment is on the top floor so there is no one living up there. The only thing above us is the reserve water tanks. Then we saw it, water flowing down our kitchen window above our sink. Then it started dripping from the ceiling directly above the sink. We frantically tried to get help. Liz went to the main building to look for Wilfred, our maintenance guy. Meanwhile the drips moved deeper into our kitchen and I was getting buckets so we wouldn’t have puddles on our floor. Then it started dripping over our stove so I quickly put a large bowl there. I have 5 large buckets and containers out catching water when Liz came back with Wilfred. We were afraid one of the containers had broken and our whole ceiling was going to collapse. He turned off all the water, then climbed up into our ceiling to have a look. He found it wasn’t good, but not as bad as we feared. Something happened when the town water came back on. It automatically fills up the reserves, but for some reason it didn’t stop this time and the bucket that is there for that reason overflowed as well. He cleaned it up and soon the dripping stopped. He will come back later with a part to fix that and several other problems we are having. Our hot water heater is broken again and I have big leaks over my window that leave puddles of water on my floor when it rains. So hopefully our apartment will be fixed later today. But something will go wrong again, this is Africa! Liz had to go teach, but I stayed to squeegee our floor and dump out the buckets of water. Quite an adventure!

School is almost out. Today is an abbreviate schedule and then we have some Christmas party/program. I am not sure what all happens. I just know food is provided! Then we have class through Wednesday of next week. That is unless Wednesday is declared a Muslim holiday, which is a possibility, then it will be taken off because it would be a national holiday. I only have 4 of my regular class periods left to teach in this semester. I sub 3 periods for the geometry teacher who is going home over Christmas to visit his mother. Hopefully he will have a good visit and nothing will delay his return.

11 days till Christmas (on this side of the world at least) and 13 days until my family arrives! We had our choir concert last night, which I was singing in, and it I felt such joy singing songs about my savior who has come and will come again to save me, to save us all if we let him.
AMY