Right now I still have the apartment to myself. This is good and bad. I don't have anyone else to answer to, I can get up when I want, shower when I want, cook when I want, have the temperature set at what I want. However, I miss the company of other people! The company outweighs everything else. So I am super thankful that my housemate is arriving this Friday night! I am so ready for the adventures we are going to have and the lives we are going to touch! God is doing great things here!
My apartment:
So in the apartment, the joys I get to deal with are a crack in my shower. I am trying to get the owner to fix it, but he says I can continue to use it with the crack. UMMMM. NO. So I am thankful there are two showers in the apartment. My school is working on helping me find someone to repair it, but who knows when that is going to be.
Also the air conditioner in the living room is leaking water. When I say leaking water, I don't mean just a few drops, I mean like a rushing stream/river down my wall. I asked around the school and they said it was because I had the temperature set too low (20C) so I moved it up to 26C (which is 78F) and it is still streaming down my wall. Also it is pooling under the hardwood floor. So this is something else that my school is hopefully going to help me fix.
The only thing left to deal with are my little creature friends that like to crawl around the apartment. Cockroaches, ants, and I think there is a mouse somewhere. I have been scouring the internet looking for natural repellents. They said garlic is a good deterrent of cockroaches, ants, and mice. YAY. So last weekend I put out some garlic cloves all over the place and I haven't seen any cockroaches or mice! (There were some dead one in the spare bedroom, but I don't go in there so I don't know how they died) Ants are a different story. So any ideas/tips would be appreciated. Someone said vinegar but I don't know what I am supposed to do with the vinegar.
I am probably just complaining about small things because I know things could be a lot worse! And I thank God that these are the only things I am having to worry about right now! But please be praying that the shower and air conditioning get fixed soon (both are important as you have to shower and it's hot here!). Also pray that these critters find another apartment to crawl around (I'm just not a fan of bugs!).