So.. just another day. I went into work and there was a huge council meeting about to happen so I promptly left work and met Garrett for coffee. Around lunch time we decided we wanted to go back to my apartment and make egg sandwiches. Walking up the three flights of stairs to my place we run into a guy that knows Garrett and he's carrying a tube with him. I get to my apartment and realize it was my tube, my water tube.
Back story: As you may or may not be aware of, most people in town don't pay for their electricity or water. People literally make fun of me around town for paying for my electricity on time each month. "Why pay for it? No one else does!" or "We loose power all the time, so what exactly are you paying for?" I actually went into the water place and they couldn't find my papers for my apartment and told me not to worry about paying it. When I asked around town everyone told me that literally no one paid for water. This makes a little more sense due to the fact we only get water 2 hours a day but none the less, if people don't pay, nothing will change.Okay, so there is also two people standing at a window with lots of papers sorting through them. Apparently, they work for the water company. Apparently this is my first notice that I haven't paid my water bill all year and that includes taking my water pipe. Thank goodness Garrett was there and could kind of give them a hard time for this abrupt notification. It ended with me going ahead and paying the outlandish amount of Lek and them installing my water pipe back in before they left. Recently I've been feeling a lot of pressure to have everything set up for the new Volunteer that's going to live in my apartment and have everything fixed and up to date. I really don't have a problem paying for stuff here, I think that's what our Peace Corps money should go to, the community we live in but sometimes the lack of work over a year being made up in one day kind of breaks the bank.
