Sorry everyone for not getting back to ya sooner (or answering your comments)!! It's been a couple weeks of long hours (both at the office and at Mr L's appartment)!!
I am happy to report that we are slowly getting Mr L's appartment back in shape. We still have a long way to go but last weekend we managed to open a passage way across the living room and made it to one of the windows allowing for the sunlight and fresh air to now be able to come into his home.
We haven't learned much more about his life other than the fact that he's actually 64 years old (and not 80 like I initially thought). We don't really ask him any personal questions while we're working since we don't want to make him feel uncomfortable so I'm not sure how he managed to lead a "normal" life while his place was clearly not in liveable conditions (sorry Jonna and Emily, ;)).
Still, he seems to really appreciate our help and that itself comforts us knowing that we're not doing all of this for nothing. At first we feared that as soon as we turned our backs he would go back to bringing stuff back into his apartment and stocking them in the spaces we had cleared out but that doesn't seem to be the case.
We've found a few "treasures" too, like an original Paris map dating from 1885 in perfect condition and all kinds of cute french objects from the 30s and 40s, so we're thinking that a lot of the stuff belonged to his mother. One of the neighbors who's been living in the building for a long time told us Mr L used to live with his mother before she passed away a few years ago.
Anyway, we're still going strong and our next rendez-vous is set for tomorrow morning so I'll be sure to update soon!
Fned.
3 comments:
I'm glad to hear things are going well! I'm sure he appreciates it more than he has words to say so.
Confusing though, my googlereader had "the law on in-laws" as your most recent post, but it's not here. I'll have a comment ready and waiting once you put it up!
Andromeda: Yeah, I know... I hadn't finished that post last night and I accidentally hit the "publish" button so it must of been on the blog for a few minutes before I went back and saved it again as a draft. But it's up now! ;)
Fned.
I was wondering how it was going with the man with the books. Thanks for the update!
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