Sometimes I get so frustrated with things here in Bulgaria. I have been having plumbing issues in my apartment ever since I moved in; both my faucets in the bathroom and kitchen leak, and I have had a coworker of mine come over two or three times already to fix them, but then a week later they break again. This time my bathroom faucet handle completely snapped off and started spraying water all over the place. I attempted to turn off the main water valve to my apartment, but that doesn't work either so I had to rush to my office and get help. We ended up having to purchase a whole new faucet assembly and install it, which isn't a hard task, but in Bulgaria sometimes (actually quite often) a simple task can become inexplicably difficult.
Anyway, we finally fixed it and got it working great, but then only a few hours later the hot water gasket sprung a leak and started spraying scalding water all over the room. I shut off the boiler and attempted to fix it myself, but the new faucet that we had just installed was a complete piece of crap, and the bolts on it snapped, leaving me with a faucet that i couldn't reattach. The next day my coworker came back over, equally frustrated, and wanted to know where the old faucet was. I of course had thrown it away since it was busted, but then he got all upset. "why would you throw a broken faucet away?!?"
I have a decent amount of experience doing home repair stuff, but Bulgaria takes it to a whole new level. Stores never sell the part you need, and if they do it will probably break all too soon. Sometimes it seems like everything is in a perpetual state of disrepair. In fact, today I just saw a truck driving down the road with a drivers side door that didn't shut, and the driver had to hold in closed the entire time he was driving.
In other news, this next week is my Close of Service conference, where we have to go over paperwork and things to prepare finishing up our work here and get ready to transfer back to the states. Time has been going by very quickly lately, and I have the feeling that I will be done here before I know it. Only three months left!
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That must be hard. Andrew and I were talking about you a lot this weekend, it's hard to believe you've been over there almost two years. We're looking forward to your return. Talk to you soon.
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