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Wow, Where Did This Week Go To?

Posted on September 29, 2007
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I can’t believe my last post was way back on Monday and it’s Saturday already!

What’s been happening here in Spain?

Well, although I’ve been out and about quite a lot, I don’t seem to have achieved a whole lot in that time. I’ve done a couple of small jobs and worked on some building, but a lot of time has been spent between writing online for my other blogs and some offline stuff that I don’t think is interesting enough to even mention here!

Well, some stuff has to stay private, right?

Where I live here on the coast, we have what is known as an urbanization, which is just a collection of duplex apartments that all surround a large communal garden and pool. The owners of these apartments all belong to the communidad (community) and we have periodic meetings to discuss things like the upkeep of the gardens and pool, general maintenance and that sort of thing.

Well, we had one of those meetings yesterday evening because a lot of people are getting concerned over some of the financial goings on and the administrator who chaired the meeting came under fire from the residents over money that seems to have gone missing from the community’s account! At this point, I’d better mention that we also have an elected community president who is one of the residents and that job is held for one year. Well, this year’s president has done some unpopular things, one of them being appointing a new administrator (the guy who chaired our meeting last night).

The flack was flying from all directions (as you can imagine) and one of the biggest concern was why the president was not present at the meeting!

The arguments went on for ages until one of the residents (who works for the local social security department) accused the administrator of unprofessionalism (he was almost impossible to reach on the phone) and of not paying the social security contributions for the gardeners! With that the administrator slammed shut his brief case and stormed out of the meeting!

There was a lot more going on, but the gist of it all was that the residents want a new president asap and will probably denounce the administrator over the missing money. What a fun evening!

Terry Didcott

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