this is my gardener. i love him. when he trims the bougainvillea fence surrounding the property he always leaves me a bouquet of flowers.
he's only paid about $50 a month for part time work here but he's a happy guy and shows up and does a good job.
every day i battle staff members who can't do the basic things that they have been taught over and over [things like putting labels onto a bottle]. guess that's why it makes me so glad to see him.
one of my staff happened to be at my house at the same time as the cleaning girl came. she didn't do a very good job of cleaning and had no english so i asked my staff girl to translate some basic instructions for her. afterwards, i commented to my staff girl that the cleaning girl always seemed so unhappy. she was also terrified of the cats so freaked out everytime they came into the house. i found a much better cleaning girl who has english.
it seems like a luxury and a bit colonialist to have all these house servants but there are real reasons i didn't understand before. like if you dry your clothes on the clothes line [which i do] they need to be ironed because otherwise bugs will get into them. since it's so hot here, the windows are always open, but since it's always dusty everything is covered in a layer of red dust if there isn't a regular cleaning.
i am tired of people in my house and going through my things so i do as much of the cleaning and ironing as i can but i'm working 60 hour weeks and would prefer to spend my evenings relaxing with a glass of wine in the garden or meeting friends for dinner.
every day i battle staff members who can't do the basic things that they have been taught over and over [things like putting labels onto a bottle]. guess that's why it makes me so glad to see him.
one of my staff happened to be at my house at the same time as the cleaning girl came. she didn't do a very good job of cleaning and had no english so i asked my staff girl to translate some basic instructions for her. afterwards, i commented to my staff girl that the cleaning girl always seemed so unhappy. she was also terrified of the cats so freaked out everytime they came into the house. i found a much better cleaning girl who has english.
it seems like a luxury and a bit colonialist to have all these house servants but there are real reasons i didn't understand before. like if you dry your clothes on the clothes line [which i do] they need to be ironed because otherwise bugs will get into them. since it's so hot here, the windows are always open, but since it's always dusty everything is covered in a layer of red dust if there isn't a regular cleaning.
i am tired of people in my house and going through my things so i do as much of the cleaning and ironing as i can but i'm working 60 hour weeks and would prefer to spend my evenings relaxing with a glass of wine in the garden or meeting friends for dinner.
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