We both woke up at 8:30am and right away we had
a difference of opinion. I was thinking
today is when Une is coming to my apartment and Teresa thought it was tomorrow.
We got up and Teresa started cleaning the
kitchen while I called Jhon. Teresa was
right, so today she wants us to go to the pueblo (small village) Amaga to buy
fruits and vegetables.
I saw an advertisement for the NFL package on
Direct TV and they specifically mentioned channels 689 – 695. I checked channel 689 and it said “Programming
not Available”. It won’t even stop on
the other channels. Tonight I’ll see if
I can get the Thursday night game of the week and if not then I’ll need to call
them to complain.
It was already a very cool day today and then it
started drizzling. Teresa gave me the
remainder of the container of ice cream to finish and now I’m cold.
At noon Teresa told me Une is here but she was a
little upset because she was trying to make lunch.
The two Une guys came in for about 15 minutes
and filled out some paperwork so I’m really hopeful I will be able to get Wi-Fi
here.
They left at 12:30 and Teresa and I walked with
them to protect them from the neighbor’s dogs with my pepper spray. Three of Teresa’s dogs followed us. We stopped at the neighbor’s house and the
Une guys talked to the neighbor. The 2
“killer dogs” came out and the Doberman sniffed up one of the guys. The 2 guys didn’t seem afraid of the dogs at
all. It’s obvious that Teresa’s 3 dogs
and the neighbors 2 dogs do not get along.
At one point 2 of Teresa’s dogs confronted the 2nd of the
neighbor’s dogs and while they were busy the Doberman chased Teresa’s 3rd
dog down the path. With so much barking
and snarling I’m surprised that anyone was able to hear anyone else.
I finished Ken Follett’s 326 pages Eye of the Needle; now I need an internet connection before I
can download another book.
Lunch was fried chicken breast, rice, cucumber
salad, and juice. There was another type
of fried meat and I tried it and immediately spit it out. I told her its fish and she told me its
tuna. That’s the 2nd time
she’s tried to slip fish past me.
I asked her about getting Wi-Fi and I understand
it hasn’t been determined yet. She told
me the Une rep wants to charge more by declaring we are in estrato 5 when
actually we are in estrato 3. I told
her getting Wi-Fi is most important to me not which estrato we are in. She said I’m wrong and stated that she pays 40-50mil
for electricity here and her brother, in estrato 6 in Envigado, pays 200mil for
electricity and Direct TV. So I don’t
know what’s going to happen.
Because of the cold and rain she doesn’t believe
we would be able to get a taxi back from Amaga so I understand we aren’t going
there today.
We talked more about the estrato situation. Her epm bill says she is in estrato 5 and she
doesn’t have anything that says she is in estrato 3. She believes she is in estrato 3 because all
her neighbors are. I don’t know how it
works in Colombia
but it seems to me if she wants to be known she is in estrato 3 she needs to
somehow change her epm bill to declare that.
The bill for Laura’s “wi-fi” is due tomorrow and
Teresa was going to cancel it because we should have Wi-Fi soon but after
another discussion we will pay it for one more month until we know we will be
able to get Wi-Fi. Who knows, if we
can’t get it, I may be getting the same portable “wi-fi” that Laura has.
We went to bed at 10:30.
T-shirt of the day: Lousiana
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