As some of you may know, not everyone here in Mexico has the luxuary of hot running water in their houses. We dont which is fine when its hot hot hot, but when it cools down a bit, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, not so good!
So hears a funny story from our first day in our new house.
I was emailing mum when suddenly I hear splashing water and screamng kids next door.
Turns out that its shower time! Today is quite cool as it has been raining a lot, so keep in mind, no hot showers.
The family next door do not have a proper bathroom with a shower in it at all. So they basically shower in the backyard from a bucket.
Tonight the dad is pouring a bucket of COLD water over the head of the first child while mum soaps him up. Dad moves on to the next kid and so on and so on for all the kids (theres heaps of them).
Once the kids are all wet and soaped up they are lined up in a row as though facing a firing squad while dad throws/pours COLD water over them again to rinse them off.
The poor kids are used to showering this way but because its much cooler the water is very cold for them and they were all screaming and yelling Nooooooooooo at the top of their voices.
All you could hear was " Nooooooooo Splash, ahhhhhhh. noooooooooo soap soap soap, ahhhhhhh, noooooooo, splah, splash, splash!!!"
It was quite funny to hear, but now as I contemplate my own nice COLD shower, the smile is wiped from my dust smeared face!
At least for me there is no bucket involved!!!
Saturday, August 14, 2010
ALL MOVED IN
The day is drawing slowly to a close and we are all moved in.
After a full day of cleaning like banchies yesterday, today we moved in "all" our furniture.
The house looks as empty as it did before we moved in but its much cleaner now!
We cant wait until a certain someone who will remain anonymous in the meantime gets here to help fill the space.
Thanks for your kind thoughts by the way, much appreciated!
After a full day of cleaning like banchies yesterday, today we moved in "all" our furniture.
The house looks as empty as it did before we moved in but its much cleaner now!
We cant wait until a certain someone who will remain anonymous in the meantime gets here to help fill the space.
Thanks for your kind thoughts by the way, much appreciated!
Monday, August 9, 2010
MOVING DAY APPROACHES
Well we finally found a house which is fabulous! (Well we hope it is anyway)
Move in day is this weekend the 14th Aug, yipeeeeeee.
Truly one extreme to the other is what we are acheiving with the new house.
Right now we live in a very small, cant swing a cat in it one bedroom house and the new one has so many rooms in it we wont know what to do with ourselves. Especially since we dont have any furniture!!!
A deal was struck with the landlord, his sister owns the house but she lives in the US. They want to get someone to rent the house that will take care of it. They dont really care all that much about the rent, they just want to make sure its looked after and maintained. WE CAN DO THAT!
Here there is a big problem with people renting a house and then leaving, but taking everything including the kitchen sink!! They leave the house a ruin. So a good tenant that will care for the house is sort after.
Sooooo instead of paying an astronomic amount in rent which would normally be charged for a house this size we are getting it for an awesome price, not much more than we are paying now!!
The house has two bathrooms although when we looked at the house the second one had not been finished. They build houses in stages here as money allows, so the house is not new, but parts of it are (new mexican standards, not nz standards). The bathroom has walls and a floor with pipes sticking out of the walls where the fixtures will be. We negotiated with the landlord and he has agreed to do all the work to finish the bathroom ready for us to move into! Yahoooooo.
This week is thus going to be very busy, trying to pack, having to clean two houses, trying to get ou time in, Dave has a public talk and then we have to go to Mexico City a day after we move in so we have to pack for that too. No time for mischeif in there!! There is a time for everything though, isnt there?!
So folks, thats me this week, hope you are all well, would love to hear from you all!
Move in day is this weekend the 14th Aug, yipeeeeeee.
Truly one extreme to the other is what we are acheiving with the new house.
Right now we live in a very small, cant swing a cat in it one bedroom house and the new one has so many rooms in it we wont know what to do with ourselves. Especially since we dont have any furniture!!!
A deal was struck with the landlord, his sister owns the house but she lives in the US. They want to get someone to rent the house that will take care of it. They dont really care all that much about the rent, they just want to make sure its looked after and maintained. WE CAN DO THAT!
Here there is a big problem with people renting a house and then leaving, but taking everything including the kitchen sink!! They leave the house a ruin. So a good tenant that will care for the house is sort after.
Sooooo instead of paying an astronomic amount in rent which would normally be charged for a house this size we are getting it for an awesome price, not much more than we are paying now!!
The house has two bathrooms although when we looked at the house the second one had not been finished. They build houses in stages here as money allows, so the house is not new, but parts of it are (new mexican standards, not nz standards). The bathroom has walls and a floor with pipes sticking out of the walls where the fixtures will be. We negotiated with the landlord and he has agreed to do all the work to finish the bathroom ready for us to move into! Yahoooooo.
This week is thus going to be very busy, trying to pack, having to clean two houses, trying to get ou time in, Dave has a public talk and then we have to go to Mexico City a day after we move in so we have to pack for that too. No time for mischeif in there!! There is a time for everything though, isnt there?!
So folks, thats me this week, hope you are all well, would love to hear from you all!
HANDS UP!!!!
So check this out.
We were all around at a sisters house the other day helping her move. Nothing strange about that. But this is Mexico and nothing is what it seems!
Sooooooo, all of a sudden there is a screeching of breaks and dust flying as the house is surrounded by three huge trucks full of Federalies (Federal Police). They are all clad with black balaclavas and automatic machine guns!!! And breathe....... we are still alive and no Im not writting this from prison!
Within seconds they have strategically positioned themselves for self protection, but for the best shot at us too.
Some marched straight into the house pointed their guns at the guys and started stearing them down without blinking.
Another one spoke to one of the brothers and asked him what we where all doing. He explained that we were simply helping his daughter move house and that we were all Jehovahs Witnesses. He asked what they were doing in their house!?
The officer explained that someone had made a call to them, informing them that there were lots of people gathered at the address, coming and going and that we must be selling/dealing drugs!!!! Nice neighbours!
Once we explained who we were he had no hesitation in leaving at all and could see the misunderstanding. However even after this had been explained none of the other armed officers moved until they were given the okay.
Dave said that there was one positioned across the road with a clear shot right through the window at him. That he never took his eye off Dave not even for a second!
Just as well all the kids were still at the old house as they would have been terrified.
In the end all turned out well and the officers left without a drug bust from us that day!
Oh how exciting things are here! That is something we would never dream of having happen to us in NZ.
Makes me wonder what will happen on the weekend when we move!!!
We were all around at a sisters house the other day helping her move. Nothing strange about that. But this is Mexico and nothing is what it seems!
Sooooooo, all of a sudden there is a screeching of breaks and dust flying as the house is surrounded by three huge trucks full of Federalies (Federal Police). They are all clad with black balaclavas and automatic machine guns!!! And breathe....... we are still alive and no Im not writting this from prison!
Within seconds they have strategically positioned themselves for self protection, but for the best shot at us too.
Some marched straight into the house pointed their guns at the guys and started stearing them down without blinking.
Another one spoke to one of the brothers and asked him what we where all doing. He explained that we were simply helping his daughter move house and that we were all Jehovahs Witnesses. He asked what they were doing in their house!?
The officer explained that someone had made a call to them, informing them that there were lots of people gathered at the address, coming and going and that we must be selling/dealing drugs!!!! Nice neighbours!
Once we explained who we were he had no hesitation in leaving at all and could see the misunderstanding. However even after this had been explained none of the other armed officers moved until they were given the okay.
Dave said that there was one positioned across the road with a clear shot right through the window at him. That he never took his eye off Dave not even for a second!
Just as well all the kids were still at the old house as they would have been terrified.
In the end all turned out well and the officers left without a drug bust from us that day!
Oh how exciting things are here! That is something we would never dream of having happen to us in NZ.
Makes me wonder what will happen on the weekend when we move!!!
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