We have been living in our current home for nearly 3 months. It has had it's share of hardships (including: cold showers, mold, smelling water pipes, lack of insulation, no screens on windows), but there has always been one consistent thing that makes us happy to live in the home. And that happy thing is the landlady's maintenance man, who works in our courtyard 4 days a week.
Can you tell why we like him so much?
He is the most friendly guy to interact with. He has a positive attitude and is a very hard worker. He only has a few teeth. He doesn't speak Spanish fluently, but only his native tongue. He is always very grateful and appreciative of Jenny and I. We give him lunches from our kitchen several times a week. One of the main reasons living in this home is difficult is because of our landlady. She is very controlling and doesn't treat Santiago well. When we give him lunch, he has to hide it from her because she considers him her work and doesn't need us to interact with him.
We have been able to locate a new place to live, starting early December. It became a difficult decision (whether or not to move) solely because of Santiago. We are currently working on arrangements with his schedule to work it out that we can still see him on a consistent basis. But we feel that since our house was not very good quality, and because we didn't want to support our landlady for being disrespectful, that we needed to transition when we get the chance (plus we've been told that our landlady has a history of kicking tenants out with no warning...which actually happened last month with our Guatemalan neighbors with the two small children...we are now trying to support that family by having the mother do our laundry every week).
Here are pictures of those kids. We miss them too. Actually, when we decided to move here it was because of the closeness in community to the Guatemalans, so now that they have been taken away from us we feel our home is to be made elsewhere.
Can you tell why we like him so much?
We have been able to locate a new place to live, starting early December. It became a difficult decision (whether or not to move) solely because of Santiago. We are currently working on arrangements with his schedule to work it out that we can still see him on a consistent basis. But we feel that since our house was not very good quality, and because we didn't want to support our landlady for being disrespectful, that we needed to transition when we get the chance (plus we've been told that our landlady has a history of kicking tenants out with no warning...which actually happened last month with our Guatemalan neighbors with the two small children...we are now trying to support that family by having the mother do our laundry every week).
Here are pictures of those kids. We miss them too. Actually, when we decided to move here it was because of the closeness in community to the Guatemalans, so now that they have been taken away from us we feel our home is to be made elsewhere.
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