3 Essentails to Life

So while here in China I believe that there are "The Essentails." They would be 1. Electricty 2. Water and 3. Internet (4 including food).

So our story begins on Sunday afternoon. The children had the day off of school because of some mid-autumn festival. So I had ventured down to their apartments to play with them when it starts to sprinkle. The nanny pulls the children inside and tell me to come in to. I do for a little while. It then starts raining cats and dogs while I'm getting restless. Much to the nannys dismay I leave. (The Chinese don't like rain I have concluded). The school is pretty much flooding. There is so much water everywhere! It is so cool. I love the rain when it's not interfering with riding horses. So I'm splashing in the water heading down to the field where Dan and others are playing soccer. I decide to join them since I'm already soaked and I had wanted to play soccer all day. It was so much fun. I love soccer.

After we were done playing soccer, I headed back to my apartment and find my roommates with a wet bed and the power out. Fun huh?? Little did I know it was just the beginning of the fun. The power would come on for a few minutes every now and again but it never really stayed on for very long. So without the power on we didn't have internet. That didn't bother me at first but it was one of my roommates' mom's b-day and she was supposed to get on and talk to her. She was stressing out so bad. I kinda feel bad for her but not too bad because she is on the computer talking to her parents two times a day for seriously an hour and a half each time. I'll be honest it really bugs! But what ever floats her boat. I don't need to be on the computer. Sorry but I need to vent to someone because I'm being "good" and not complaining about the people I'm with. But she is so negative it bugs the living day lights out of me and I really can't handle it.

So back to the story; so I go to bed with the power off and I wake up in the middle of the night to the lights coming on. So I get up and turn them off and don't think anything of it. I wake up the next morning and the computer is off so I try and turn it on with no luck. I try unplugging it and such and nothing would work. So I just gave up. It never even occurred to me that the power had gone off again. But eventually I figured it out. Later on I find out that the water is turned off too. So we are living without power, water, and internet. It wasn't very cool. Finally the power came back on at 7 last night and the internet came back up at 8. It was nice to have power again. But the water still wasn't on. At about 8:45 Bonnie came and told us that the water would be turned on at 9 but that they where having issues with the pipes so it would only be on till 10 and who knows when it will be turned on again. So Sarah and I went running and told the other people the news. None of them were bothered by it, and all but one elected to not take a shower. I think they are crazy. So I took a shower and had to fill our bathtub so we could flush our toilet.

So here I am. It's Tuesday morning and we have power after not having it for 24 hours. Though we still don't have water and who knows when we will have it again.