Watch the Walk

Jack the Cat doesn't haul water As many of you are already aware, water isn't something that's provided to my house 24/7. Some seasons we have water in the pipes most of the time. Other seasons, water comes for a couple of hours every two or three days. But on the third day, we start wondering, when's the water going to come? Recently, we had a greater water problem. Water had been coming every day for several hours at a time, so we weren't really worried about water usage. But then, two days before Annie's parents arrived, the water didn't come.  That's fine. We've got storage barrels. We'll be fine. But the water didn't come. Our larger neighborhood and the one next to it didn't have water due to a water main being broken. But people were fixing it. Day 6 we hauled water from a teammate's house. Surely they'll have it fixed soon! Day 7 the neighborhood got water again. But we didn't. Wait, what's going on? Day 8 we fou...

Before I get into this topic, please realize that I'm not writing to complain. I don't really blame most of the people involved for their part in the problem. They're just part of a complicated system, and right now the system isn't working in my favor. See, I have this class. They're all adults, no teens involved. All but one of them are gainfully employed, with several of them holding important jobs. They want to learn English, mostly for their job, or for travel. So a community organization asked for a teacher (me) and put together a class list. It started with 28 students, even though I normally limit a class to 25. Out of those 28, I've never had more than 23 show up on a given day. But we were making progress. I taught the class one day a week and an islander taught it on another day each week. We made it 3/4 of the way through the book, when... Ramadan happened. And since classes for adults normally occur around sunset-- the same time at which everyone is...