Our first couple weeks in Peru

We have made it to Arequipa, Peru and have our own place. The first week we stayed in with a host family from our school. It was a mom and her daughter. They were super sweet, but it was hard living with someone else especially with two little kids. Her daughter got sick and was studying for some huge exam and my kids were yelling out in the night and getting up at five am. We ended up looking at fifteen houses/apartments. The kids were dragged all over the place and did amazingly well. A bunch of the apartments were on the fourth floor, which I was not so excited about. Trying to get two kids up and down seemed like a lot of work. We decided on our number one place and were told it was no longer available. The funny thing is is that it was in the paper every day after that. Our teacher thinks it was the kids. She says people here do not like to rent to families with kids. We ended up using a realator who was a friend of our host family. Jason did all the work and did it all in spainsh. It was very impressive especially since he had to talk on the phone (which is very hard in another language) and get directions in a city he was new to. To add to the drama there was a bunch of rain, more than they have had in fifty years. Crazy! We got into our new house and I was a touch bummed there was no bath tub. I love bath tubs and it is a bit chilly here. I should not have complained because once we were in the house we realized there was no hot water. By Saturday Jason let me go stay at a hotel and take a shower. I was sick and had not had one in a few days. When I called home Sunday morning I found out there was NO water. Jason and the kids came to the hotel to take showers. I guess the whole city was shut off due to all the problems with the rain. The hotel must have had a tank. By the end of Sunday I was so thrilled to have water and by tuesday we had hot water.