Neighborhood Meeting
On Monday Mike was sick. He never showed for work until a few hours before his class and then just to tell me he couldn't teach. I had to teach his class, It went rather poorly as I wasn't prepared and it turns out I'm nor familiar with such concepts as "past perfect" and "past participles". On an interesting aside, a girl from the class had spent three years in Salem and had friends from Mt Angel and Keizer.
As I finished my class Brenda arrived for a visit. She had offered to cook dinner, so we went to the dispensa to buy some food. On our way home we ran across Rennie and Hefa and Brenda remarked on how personable she found them. We came home to a bed-ridden Mike and a kitchen full of dirty dishes as the water had been out again for two days. No more had I set down my things and set about making dinner than there was a meeting in a few minutes to discuss the water situation.
It turned out the entire neighborhood had been without running water for a month. I was able to gleen from the discussion that when they were planning the Colonia, the well had been approved to supply water for a set amount of lots. It turns out the dueña (landlady) has sold more than that amount of lots. Great. Also, it seems she doesn't have any intention of correcting the situation. Even better.
Labels: Brenda, dueña, General, volunteer house, water