Here's how my weekend was spent recently...
I was talking to my parents (real parents back in the USofA) online and all of the sudden the power went completely out. At first I wasn't worried cause it dips all the time, however it didn't come back on.
but it didn't.
not on friday.
not on saturday
not on sunday.
well, sunday afternoon, I went to my sitemates apmnt to charge my phone cause it was dead. I got home and there were lights in the house. YIPPY!
So I decided to plug in my water distiller b/c I was running low anyway, and then not being able to 'make any h2o' over the weekend ran me almost completely dry.
well, I plugged the distiller in, it went "fizzz" and the lights went out with a 'boom!' and then the distiller started to smoke...so i unplugged it.
fuck!
the next morning I told my host parents and apologized profusely. It totally shouldn't have happened...i've used that distiller tons of times.
They were cool, but I could tell they were aggravated...I mean they payed someone to come out on a sunday to fix it, and the electricity was out again.
So, today I got home and there were still no lights. I wasn't surprised...my host parents had to work today. Well, they got home from picking grapes out in a village (yeah, what fun) and had a guy to fix the electricity with them.
Well, They got the lights back on and then they came into my casa mica. My host dad and the 'electrician' (don't think he's a proper electrician, but then again, its Moldova) told me to plug in my distiller. Well, I plugged it in distiller and the shit hit the fan.
The lights went out with a loud BOOM...
The electrical socket light up in a bright haze...
The place where the plug attaches to the distiller itself caught on fire.
I quickly unplugged the damn thing and got sapped a bit.
Then the 'electrician' pulled the plug out of the distiller and put his finger up to the place where it was connected. Yeah, same place where there was just a fire! Silly man, he burned his finger.
So, anyway, I now need to go to Chisinau to the Peace Corps HQ to get a new distiller, and I still don't have any water to drink.
I hope you all had better weekends than me.
(oh, and to make matters worse, after this all happened, we finally got the electricity fixed - this is how I"m writing this now - I broke a glass when I was washing the dishes. I haven't told my host mom, b/c I'm hoping to be able to buy a replacement so they never know. Wish me luck!)
(The upside to this story is I got a book finished, however I had to read by flashlight...oh well).
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