Time has not been on our side and this has prompted some rushed decision making.
We visited two schools and with Connor's enthusiastic approval, we registered him at EMMA school armed only with information about school fees and uniform costs. The extra financial gulps came when we got the lists of school supplies which included a lab coat, guitar and accessories, scientific calculator, USB stick and art supplies among many others, the pricey required textbook list, digital resource fees, insurance fees etc. To be fair the school has small class sizes and offers many of the things we wanted available to him including extracurriculars such as swimming and tae kwon do.
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| Some of the supplies. |
Rather more disheartening is our rush decision to secure a 6-month rental close to the new school in the 3 days before school started. We only visited 3 places very briefly and chose the one with a pool. Upon moving in we learned some very hard lessons.
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| Looks can be deceiving. |
1. Said pool was cloudy and untreated since there was currently no maintenance company to look after it. The same applies to the grounds, hallway etc which have not been cleaned in absence of the maintenance company.
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| Green, murky and out of commission. |
2. The air conditioner was not working and could not be checked until after the weekend. The apartment registered 90 degrees by the height of the afternoon and we all tried to tolerate things while sitting in pools of our own sweat for two days!
3. Bedtime! Well already being boiling hot with no relief was bad enough but the final clincher was that the club on the corner, which began playing quite enjoyable live Mexican music in the afternoon (I was even grooving to the beats), continued to pump out the loudest music possible ALL NIGHT! This was Saturday, it is now Wednesday and the music has played until about 6 AM every night. JEEZ!
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| The open windowed club. |
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| Oh good, cheap drinks to go with the booming music! |
Okay so now we are tired, peed off and wondering what to do. Any decision will result in the loss of money but we are hopeful of finding a happy solution.
