After waking me up again at 8 in the morning, I had some time to ponder and decided to share. Hausmeister is German for landlord/super, he just basically comes to yell at us over stupid things, as I just heard him doing with the rest of my roommates. He is never a quiet guy, he always has to tell everyone in the apartment what we’re doing wrong, it’s awesome. Something things never change between cultures! But I digress.
So about 2 weeks ago he woke me up, because no one else was aroun, to tell me to clean out the kitchen for Friday. He meant EVERYTHING, dishes, tables, couches, it was all going because he was finally going to do renovations. Renovations which he had promised would take place over Christmas Break… anyways, we, the apartment, do it and then we all get woken up on Friday as the renovators came in at 7AM and wouldn’t shut up. I also couldn’t get access to the kitchen, so I couldn’t get breakfast! Perfect.
No work on Saturday or Sunday, of course, while our kitchen was empty and we could barely use it. Monday at 7AM, they started again! Another sleepless morning. Pretty much the same way for the rest of the week. Normally I’m pretty happy with working Germans, they do great quality of work and get done pretty quick, but this time, not really. It turned into 1 guy in the kitchen tearing down the ceiling, while 1 guy painted everything out in the hallway. All superficial repairs, becuase well, they hadn’t been done in 10 years. They would work for like 2 hours and be on break by the time I woke up, around 10AM, then repeat and break around 12AM. Their work quality was not good and it took them forever to paint like 8 doors and some siding.
So this past weekend, they done in the kitchen and we moved most of our stuff back in. Things were good over the weekend. Yesterday, Monday, they did somemore “work” and finished up and were gone. The Hausmeister woke me up and told me we have to remove everything from the kitchen again for “cleaning.” I had heard about this and acknowledged, he told me everything out by Wednesday. No problem.
Now as far as I heard this morning, he wants everything out by 2PM today? I wasn’t sure, the walls are thin, but not that thin. Whatever, I’m going back to sleep.