Cultural Difference or Sheer incompetence?

So my wonderful landlady knocks on my door and kindly points me to another door and says, "Move?"

Now I knew that I eventually had to move, but I (and my mentor teacher) was expecting notice before the fact. So upon receiving said notice, I told the landlady that it was not going to be possible to move by tonight, nor was it possible to go by Sunday. My mentor teacher had to get the movers to move appliances and stuff over to the new place, and because of the lack of notice, it could not be done by Sunday. Well thats fine and dandy, but more good news! I checked out the new place, and it is small. MUCH smaller than the landlady and my mentor teacher had me believe. The time I asked to check it out, the landlady told me that I could not. So looking into my new place, what did I see?

No room for a washing machine, no room for a fridge. All the appliances that I had bought plus the bed and closet could not fit into the small ass room. When I told my mentor teacher, she said, "I don't think its possible for you to bring everything in to your new room!" Well no shit. What am I supposed to do with a washing machine and fridge that I cant even fit into my room? Better yet, What am I supposed to do with the food that I buy and the clothes that need washing? There are no laundromats here, how the hell did the previous tenants fit their shit? Oh, and the demon sink from hell has followed me. In my current apartment, if the heating is on, the sink runs an electric current that is pretty strong. I discovered this when washing the dishes then all of the sudden arm went numb. Needless to say, I thought that I would not have to deal with said demon sink in the new place. Well the new demon sink is more demonic. If the power is on in the entire room, the sink is charged. I discovered this when I was putting my pots and pans in the new sink and had the light on. Fack.

Now I understand that yea, my old place is way too big, and that my new place is small. I have no qualms with that. But why the hell did they let me buy such big things when they knew it would not fit? Why wouldn't they show me the new room? Why did they lie and say my new room was "A bit bigger than the biggest room in your 2 room place?" Is this just a cultural thing? Or are the people I'm dealing with just incompetent.

Now I like my mentor teacher. She has been nothing but great in most of what she's done. She's really helpful, and despite the fact that she wasn't too sure of what she needed to do, she still tried her best. But really, c'mon. Some things are just common sense. If the shit won't fit, dont buy it. If she knew the stuff I was buying was not gonna fit, why did she let me buy it? Considering she was the only one that saw the room, and I was not allowed to see the bloody room.

I can put up with shit and incompetence at work, but when I have to LIVE in incompetence, that's where I have a problem. Gimme a room with the basics please, because this is fucking ridiculous. It's 1 month in and I would like to have settled in. Not still be debating and negotiating shit about an apartment that should have been settled the day I left the orientation venue.