It was raining the evening H and I got to Pariaman. We stayed at a hotel called Hotel Takzia that our friend E, who works in logistics at IBU foundation helped us find. She informed the owner's daughter that we are looking for a house or a room, and the woman there said we could stay in their family guest house for $1,000,000 rupiah a month.
Because we do not have an income, and a limited amount of savings, this amount is in budget, however, after waiting an extra 3 days (at $150,000 a day in the hotel) and then moving in, the owner's daughter told us that the rate would be $1,500,000 a month. We couldn't understand why the cost went up by 1/2 a million after the amount was agreed, and after a disagreement we moved out.
In hindsight, perhaps we were to hasty and should have just stayed put. But, equally, after continually getting charged three times as much as Indonesians, just because the colour of our skin, it gets to be very frustrating.
So now, the situation is that H and I are in another hotel, and we're paying about $1,500,000 a week. We have looked at rooms in other people's homes, and they have been absolutely awful. Our friend C from work is thankfully helping us to find a place, and we saw a new home that is about 15 minutes away from work and 20 minutes away from the local market. We'll probably move in there, but it means that we will also have to furnish the place, and we'll be further from work and town. The positives are that it is clean, and a new home, and it can be our first little home together.
After the first night of being "displaced persons", H and I opened to page 157, about "Four Life-Changing Attitudes... that hold the key to transforming the way we are presently experiencing our lives and lead to much greater happiness and peace of mind."
We went through the exercises and have book-marked the page so we can vibrate on the gratitude attitude level.
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