back in business

The outpouring of love and compassion you have all shown us regarding our coffee pot has been...quite funny, actually. We received loads of suggestions about what to do and three people even offered to send us new ones! For all those of you that shared our pain, today I have good news. We got the coffee pot fixed! We found a "fix it guy" next to our vegetable market. You can tell he is a "fix it guy" by the mountains of half torn apart blenders, tv's, radios and dvd players spilling out of his shop. I approached timidly because we haven't quite hit the crucial "my coffee pot is broken" lesson in our Chinese book. Turns out I had no need to worry as our communication was more than adequate and two days later i walked out of his shop with a working coffee pot that cost me a whopping 40RMB ($5.88).

On a side note: through all of this we borrowed a french press from a friend that actually worked a lot better than ours and i have been re-introduced to the joy of the press. It's a good option for those of you that care enough to try.