Furniture, and street digs

Hi all ~

We purchased and assembled our first piece of furniture this week -
a desk!
Next is a stove with a gas tank, and finally, mother of all
appliances...

a fridge. We hope.

Then we can start grocery shopping at the colorful market nearby and
taking leftovers to work for lunches everyday.

We're also getting curtain rods put in today supposedly as well.

I say 'supposedly' because there is definitely a lack of timeliness
here. Guess people probably call it "Indian time".

Waiting 2, 3, 4 hours for something to happen that was supposed to
happen when you showed up is what it's all about here it seems.

Oh, and they're digging up the streets and side walks left and right.
We've been watching the very big main road in front of our apartment
get slowly, slowly laid with concrete. Then just the other day they
started digging up the little street on the other side of our
building. Then, this morning I watched as laborers were digging up
bricks from the entire sidewalk on the other side of the street.

No idea what it'll all look like when they're done... if they ever are!

Anyway, that's what's happening!