And the Saga Continues…(june 27)

So this morning I woke up with the intention of going out for my now routine morning jog but in true Panama fashion it was raining so I couldn’t. Moreover, in true Dominique fashion I was awake at 6 a.m. and could not go back to sleep so I just did some laundry and read my book. Actually I first woke up in the middle of the night thinking I’d been asleep for awhile when it was really only 1 a.m. I transferred my clothes from the washer to the dryer and then laid back down. Back to the saga, we were having maintenance come to the apartment to “fix” the stove this morning so I had to stay around to let him in the house and go to work late. At first I was afraid they would arrive on P.T. (my version of CP time, but Panamanian time) but he was 15 minutes early. We exchanged pleasantries and I explained to him our problem (in Spanish). He got right to work and fiddled around for about 30 minutes before coming out of the kitchen saying we have a serious problem. He said the stove is many years old and he was not able to fix it. He continued on to say it could take a day or two before it was fixed. By now, Yolanda and I are quite fed up with this foolishness because we haven’t been able to cook anything since we moved here on Friday because the stove/oven do not work and you can only do so much in the microwave. In fact, I don’t even really have any food to cook in the microwave and neither does she so that was part of the reason why we went out to dinner last night. But I’m writing this before I go to work so we’ll see what happens when I tell the housing department about the latest chapter in this mess. To be continued…

So they are supposed to be delivering a "new" stove to the apartment this afternoon...praise God from whom all blessings flow!