Oh, what a week.

It seems everything has just decided to break over the course of the last few days, and to make matters worse we've all been in pretty crappy moods.

So, here the list goes:

Monday night the kitchen sink drain broke. I think it's from just gradually tilting forward more and more, and I bumped into it and it just snapped. So all of the water that was in the sink ended up on our floor. The kitchen sink looks in even worse shape than ever before. Not to mention the fact that we have to do the dishes in the bathroom sink. Also, this affects our ability to do laundry, because the water that is used to rinse the clothing drains into our kitchen sink. This means no laundry until this gets fixed, either.

Tuesday the thing holding the shower head in place on the wall fell out. This is just annoying, because we never had a shower curtain to start with, and now we actually have to hold the shower head (or place it somewhere where it will not spray the entire bathroom... although that would be difficult too as the water pressure is quite low) the entire time we shower. Oh, and taking baths has been fun, too. First we have to let the hot water heater run for about 2 hours, then fill the tub with steaming hot water, then add cold water until it is a good temperature. And when it drains it has to drain slowly or else somehow (I still haven't figured out exactly why this happens, but it does) the drained water will come up this hole in our floor and flood the bathroom as well.

So of the 3 sinks/water spouts with drain systems in our apartment, only one is fully functional at this point. I feel like I'm living in low-income housing or something.

Also on Tuesday the hot water heater, or the heater, or something important broke at school, which happened to flood the entire kitchen. And this is really bad news because tomorrow is Thanksgiving and we were going to use the kitchen to cook all of our delicious food. Hopefully it will be fixed and cleaned up by then. If not, I guess we'll find somewhere to cook and bake, but it just won't be as nice.

On the bright side, we do have heat now (as of about 3 weeks ago, I guess I forgot to write about this wonderful event earlier). In the form of two different woodstoves. They're great, but nothing like the heating systems at home. We still have about 5 thick blankets and wake up fairly cold, but it's better than it was.

On a different note, people lied when they said it would not be cold here. It is frigid! At orientation we were told that we wouldn't need a winter coat because it never really gets that cold. "Just bring lots of layers and sweaters," they said. Bull crap! It's not even December and it has already snowed in Florence, a mere 2 or 3 hours north of here.

Anyway, I have to go now, I have class in a bit. Ciao!