The week following camp was an annoying
one.
- Being back at school wasn't fun
- The week before a break is always slow
- Nothing was as simple as it should be
I had yet again more trouble reloading
my phone. I paid and everything worked like it should until I got
home and realized I didn't have 3G and I couldn't use any apps that
required internet, which of course are the only apps I rely on here.
So I grabbed a spanish-speaking friend and walked back up the hill to
the kiosk. After a couple of phone calls the guy said there was
nothing he could do and it might just be a problem with the phone
company. Awesome. Then my phone decided to quit connecting to wifi at
all. (Luckily I was able to get a replacement phone while I was home
and everything seems to be working now).
Then a group of us decided to go out to
dinner one night. We decided on Lebanese. Long story short: we drove
around a not-so-great part of town for an hour and a half. Our taxi
played chicken with another car as they were head to head because of
a broke down car in the opposing lane and our driver got out to argue
with the other driver. Then he got out to argue with another driver
again after a bus bumped our taxi later on. We finally gave up on the
Lebanese place we couldn't find and went to a burger place. As we
were walking in, the hostess told us that their credit card machine
was down. So we walked to a nearby mall. Over two hours after we left
our apartments, the five of us were squished together eating Mexican
fast food at a two-person table. We couldn't even talk about how
annoyed we were because the speaker next to us blasting reggaeton.
From the sounds of it, there are often events like this that don't go
as planned, but I guess it could be worse so as annoyed as I was, I
still laughed it off. Some of the people who have been here for a few
years no longer find it funny though.
Hungry and Grumpy
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