Monday, April 11/2016

Packing. Boxes packed like Chinese puzzles to store in the mezzanine housekeeping area until next time. First few years we stored nothing, but now we've acquired a large soup pot, a ceramic frying pan, mugs, glasses, CDs....makes for a nice winter but the packing is time consuming. And inevitably once the boxes are taped and tied there is something we wish we could retrieve or add. Maggi and her friend Sama stop so M can say goodbye.  Sama is Sri Lankan and works as an underpaid and overworked housekeeper for a Cypriot family. Mistreatment of foreign workers unfortunately endemic in Cyprus, from denying time off to assigning extra work for friends or relatives, to delaying pay. Sama cheerful nonetheless.