Schedule change: The school year is over. Regular classes ended a couple of weeks ago, and our last final exam was given this week. Our schedule has shifted into summer mode, which includes occasional English club meetings, preparation for next year’s classes, and a bit of traveling to explore new parts of this country. Most exciting to us are plans to fly home for a few weeks to visit with family and friends.
Water change: We’ve mentioned that the water in our apartment has usually been turned off at night. From about 10 or 11 pm until roughly 5:45, we’d have no water, which was not really much of an inconvenience. This schedule changed recently, so that now the water goes on and off throughout the day according to a strict schedule: ON from 6:00-9:00am, OFF from 9:00-11:30am, ON from 11:30am to 1:30pm, OFF from 1:30-5:00pm, ON from 5:00-9:00pm, OFF from 9:00pm to 6:00am. It took us a couple of days to figure out that there was in fact a schedule in operation. Other neighborhoods in our city have operated according to this same water schedule, but it is new to ours. We find ourselves rushing to complete activities “before the water goes off” and our life is somewhat more regimented as a result, but it is certainly tolerable.
