Happy November! It's probably getting quite cold wherever you are reading this, but let me tell you how it is NOT getting cold at all here. In fact, it's getting hotter and hotter each day. From October through March is the hottest time of the year in Malang. Oh joy!!
Anyway, I would like to share with everyone the funny adventures of living in a house with 6 friends. As you all know, it is the rainy season, and that means it rains A LOT every day. The first time it rained a lot, we realized that we have a serious problem. Our new house leaks! We ran around like chickens with their heads cut off when we realized our roof was leaking for the first time. It was quite a spectacle - trying to find enough buckets to collect the dripping rain. Okay, it was less like "dripping" rain and more like "flooding" actually. I don't know how we missed it, but there's actually a huge hole in the roof above our living room. We finally decided that there were 4 major leaks and about 5 or 6 minor ones. Oh my goodness! So we contacted the owner of the house immediately, but of course things in Indonesia move slower than molasses. It's been 2 weeks and we still haven't heard anything from him. We call him about three times a day :) Actually we all laugh about it, and the buckets that we've placed to collect the rain have permanent places in the house, so more than anything we've come to love them and appreciate them :) :)
We also just had an adventure the other day. All of a sudden one night, our water stopped. We thought it was because we forgot to pay the water bill (that actually happened once with the electricity, but we quickly sorted that out! it was NOT my turn to pay the bills, I promise!!). But after realizing that someone had just paid, we tried to figure out what was going on. There are two random nozzles on one of the walls upstairs. It looks like there should be a tap attached to them, but there isn't. Now initially we just thought the people building the house forgot to put the taps in, but then we realized that the nozzles had something to do with the flow of water throughout the house. So when our water stopped, we ran up and down the stairs trying to figure out if any combinations of turning those nozzles made any difference. It didn't really, and finally someone realized that there was this hidden water pump outside that had been turned off. We still don't know who turned it off and why, but we finally have water. Granted, it's freezing cold water, but at least we can bathe!
Okay, that's about all for now from this side of the world! I love you all and miss you all dearly!!!!
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so omg those pics you sent and on facebook are absolutely amazing. so you should stop eating rice or whatever it is that you eat all the time and have a hamburger. robe is the cutest thing ever and you guys look ridiculously happy together. i love his hair p.s. haha! i love you so much. we're going to miss you at thanksgiving but its okay cause when you get back in may you're never leaving cincinnati again (sorry). i honestly didnt know it was you in those pics for probably 5 mins. i was kind of getting mad cause i was wondering who was in them with your boyfriend lol i hope you're happy cause you sure look like it! miss you love! here's some fun news - alyse is cutting kyle's hair next week and she'll be going on the floor soon. paul finally put up the invisible fence! j.t. is growing up so fast. he IMs me sometimes and his typing is improving. its like he's a little person or something (weird concept huh). dad painted a few walls downstairs and they look great. him and tammy are great. mom babysat for her coworker Liza. her son is 18 months so mom had a good'ol time. call me sometime! i miss you :)
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