A New Record

A new record has been set by yours truly on the latest time ever to leave el comedor. The cooks had left over 3 hours beforehand. The nurse had even left almost 90 minutes beforehand. The workers and I did not leave until 7:30pm. Now, it may not seem all that late to you crazy-late-workers, but its actually not the wisest idea to be in Villa Floresta when it gets dark (around 7 or so), because it’s not the safest neighborhood.

Now don’t worry, I don’t plan on competing with myself to beat this record. In fact, starting at 5pm, I kept thinking we’d be gone within the next hour…and we just kept pasting tiles. It never seemed to end.

Luckily, this second nine-hour workday did prove to be successful. It started rough because Don Flores and his helper showed up at 11:30am when we scheduled for 10:30am. I guess that’s an improvement to be an hour late instead of an hour and a half late—but still. Tomorrow, we’re meeting at noon, and I asked him to PLEASE show up on time. I’m giving myself permission to go to his house at 12:05 to harass him if he’s not at el comedor at noon.

But we finished putting up all the tiles. All of them. Tomorrow is entirely devoted to putting in the grout. And Don Flores suggested a varnish to put over the grout and tiles to protect everything—which is exactly what I want. So Friday will be spent putting on the varnish. And then it will be done. It won’t have taken two days like Don Flores had originally guessed, but it’ll be done this week, and that is what is most important.