snippet of Congo life

This evening, we were leaving our house to go to a Christmas party with our expat Bible study group. 

 

First task is to call the neighbor who has parked us in to ask him to move his car. (This is normal because parking is limited.) 

 

He said it would take a couple minutes more than usual because his battery was stolen last night. (Like someone opened the hood of his car and took the battery out. It also happened to a second neighbor! They both park their cars on the street because there are only three spaces inside the fence.)

 

So he had bought a backup car battery but was keeping it in his apartment, so he had his worker carry down the car battery and they installed it so he could pull to the other side of the street so we could get our car out. 

 

Then when we got home, we called him to let him know so they could move the car back in front of our parking spot.  

 

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