If laughing adds 15 minutes to your life...

Every day here brings me joy. And laughter. And more laughter. ;))

So this morning we woke up to find out we don't have any water. At all. Great, huh? Good we had some bottled water to at least brush our teeth with... I completely did not prepare for any of my todays classes. We got back late yesterday and I thought nobody prepares for the classes here so there should be no problem. There wasn't!

After the first class we went out to get some lunch. I only use cash in here as I was advised to but my friend decided she wants to pay by card. That was a mistake...First of all it is extremely hard to get the waiters attention. When you're eating they are everywhere but when you want to pay they are suddenly busy and won't even look at you!
To begin with we had troubles with ordering. I didn't even think about it but I ordered in English and so did my friend. Strange thing in this place was that the waiter seemed like he's memorizing our order - he didn't write down anything! Just a few minutes later another woman comes up to as with a question mark on her face asking if we ordered pasta. She was shocked when we said no and called the waiter who turned out to speak Russian but still had troubles with getting our order...

So apparently Mado, the place where we were, is a Turkish cafe famous for their ice cream. They are very different. They serve them frozen with fork and knife and when you cut them they're a little chewy.. But good!

Funny part started when we wanted to pay. We wanted to use a card but it seemed to be denied. We got the receipt but it was in Azerbaijani. Even though it didn't look like there was something wrong with it... They asked us to use the card again because they had an error. We didn't want to at first, we asked what if we pay the second time. They made an agreement that if we paid twice they will pay us back. They had to call a bank to clarify the situation and after half an hour I think they finally paid us back. With cash. Can you imagine? You should've seen what was going on in the cafe. They had no idea what to do and everybody was talking about us. Again.

Later that day we had a welcoming party for all the Erasmus Exchange Students which was great because I didn't have time to eat anything and they provided refreshments ;))

When we got back home two things were fixed. First was the house key. We made a second one but it only worked from the inside. We could not use it from the outside so the guy had to do it again. Twice as much work for him, could've done the job the first time. And the second thing was our water. It turned out some mechanic decided he would work on the water pipes after they cut the water in the whole area the night before. The thing is he forgot to turn them on again so nobody could use water the whole day.

What can I say? I just laugh.