shower

ok, i'm in the gas station again... it has been out of gas for hours, but is open anyway.
today the water came back on for two hours and we were able to shower! so i feel 100 percent better. they turned the water off again and we heard through word of mouth that it would be off for the next two days so we filled up all our bottles again. apparently the water tower up our street broke. the water is back again now though, we were able to do a load of wash. hopefully they will leave the water on.
our electricity is pretty flaky though, sometimes we have it, sometimes we don't.
the girls were supposed to go back to school during this week, the start of school has been delayed until next monday. somehow i don't think they will start monday, as our whole sector (where the girls go to school) does not have electricity. apparently just about all of the rest of temuco does though. in lots of places, the electricity and water never even went off. so i guess we are just unlucky, and our area is quite poor, so not necessarily high priority...

i only caught some news for a few minutes today while the tv was working this afternoon, so we still don't have much info about the outside world or chile. we heard about a tsunami on the coast, and fires in concepcion. no one here in temuco is looting so far, we heard they were throwing some stones at the supermarket, but all the big supermarkets have opened again.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/03/01/soledad.obrien.haiti.chile/index.html