The North wind blew hard again all last night, and the power lines gave in this morning at around 7:30am. I was up and preparing to go to twon to teach, and I didn’t know if they had power at the school… that little classromm would be pretty dark. I was ready to postpone when Tim convinced me to go anyway. ‘the kids will be waiting for you’ he said. So I went and sure enough, they were thrilled to see me arrive (and they did have power). I introduced another set of activities and we had a great time. Looking forward to next week, we will repeat some activities of the last 2 classes and to end this fun series, we will dance with colorful scarves. I found some fabric in Progreso on Monday, and I was able to cut about 25 light scarves. I also found some maracas in the craft market, and was able to purchase 8 pairs for $25 – pretty good price! I will leave all of that at the school next week, together with the other instruments I brought from Toronto, a cd, and lyrics of a few songs we did (if I can get someone to correct the spelling…).
We are slowly getting ready to move to Villa Kasper on Friday, which is the 3rd house West of where we are right now. It’s a very slick 4 bedroom house, perfect for us and our visitors. We had no choice but to cancel our booking with the other agency, the guy really toyed with my patience and at the last attempt to cut him some slack I accepted to meet ‘his people’ at one of the houses he was offering. To make a long story short – nobody showed-up to meet me. While waiting I was chatting with the caretaker of the house, and he got the owner of the house on the phone to hopefully clarify the situation. She (the owner) told me that it would be hard for him to show me the house since he does not have a key… (by now, he is a ‘sleazy’ business man…) Furthermore, a couple of days before he had told me that to get that beautiful house we would have to pay extra ($325us) because the owner would not lower her price – he explained that she is very tough and unflexible. So since I had her on the phone, I asked her if we could rent directly from her, told her the price we initially wanted to pay, and she was very pleased to make the deal! I inquired about the conversation she had with the agent earlier in the week – well… it never took place (and he graduated to scum bag).
Even if everything was in place for us to have the beautiful Casa Pilar’s, we thought that it would not be a good idea to double cross a scum bag who knows where we live. So we cancelled the booking, and surprisingly I got the refund promptly (well, maybe it had something to do with me signing Julie Martin, Legal Advisor, Foreing Affairs and International Trade Canada : )
So with all that, I did run around a lot to managed the crisis for most of last week. We finally rented a beautiful house through our current agent, and we are looking forward to having fun in Villa Kasper.
It’s now 2:45pm, and the crew has been working all day to fix the wires along the road. The power is supposed to be back by 3pm… crossing our fingers! ...The power came back on at 5:30pm, just in time for sunset. Perfect!
This black out day was great after all, Tim made a little family movie, I painted with the boys, and Dylan started to write a long story. A very good day in Telchac!
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