Changing Places

For this assignment, I chose to stay at Emmad, a monthly apartment
rental with suites for a reasonable price. There is a living room with
sofa and television, plus a large work desk against one wall, a bedroom
with dressers, wardrobe and queen-size bed, a restroom with a full bath
unit, and a small kitchen replete with pots, pans, knives and even a
coffee maker. It is clean and the staff are very polite, so I'm sure
this will work out great.
However, yesterday, before heading back to Emmad, I went to Chez Glo,
where I've stayed the other times I was here, to talk with M, a
coworker, and then go out to dinner later in town. Everyone at Chez Glo
seemed very happy to see me and I felt a little bad that I'm not staying
there this time. They actually made some improvements there too, such as
turning one of the large rooms on the first floor into a dining area,
and expanding their kitchen area. That really improves the
atmosphere--although it had a nice "homey" feeling before, now it feels
like a B&B. I gave the gardener and one of the housekeepers pictures we
had taken together back in March. They thanked me and told me to come
visit them again. However, staying at Chez Glo, I must use a slow
dial-up Internet connection, and since they lack a generator, when the
power goes out, everyone relies on candles. Actually, as M and I were
talking, the room went black and we used our cell phones to light the
room until the housekeepers brought the candles. We headed over to
Rainbow, the Korean restaurant nearby, and had dinner by candle light
too, until the power came back on about halfway through the meal.