“Our House, in the middle of the street, Our House”

Sooo… (I say in a long dragged out ‘so’ due to the fact that I am weary and will be acknowledging weaknesses in my communication) here I am trying to blog again. Why, you say does it take me so long  to write something? Well I am finding life a bit weary in the physical sense due to climate change, work and broken sleep (Sarah is up to 2 months of waking up multiple times at night. She did this in Africa too but hoping it wouldn’t happen here) and therefore my brain doesn’t seem to work as well when I get home at night. Coffee has become a mainstay of fluid intake. Sooo, I say sorry for the delay and I will try to rectify this weakness

In my last blog I said I would show our apartment to give you an idea where we live. Our apartment is around 1400 ft² and is quite spacious compared to others we looked at. Constrained by money and Buddhist Lent (bad luck to rent or buy) we initially were going to take a 900 ft² 3 brm apartment that had grey wall-papered walls and décor ceilings. Thankfully someone we have befriended here, who has lived here many years, found the apartment we are now in at the last moment. 

Although it too has an interesting wall design with tiles and carpet, quite vertiginous causing, it is large enough that it doesn’t seem too small during the long rainy days or the long hot days. However a couple of months on it is easy to get cabin-fever, but this would be the case in any place. We have good landlords and the head security guy, Johnny, practices his English with us every day.

We do miss our Murgwanza view and freedom and there is homesickness for what we have left but we are getting use to city life, traffic congestion and the constant honk of horns and we can see a tree from our window!

Lucy's room

Sarah's room

Kitchen - bench oven, gas stove

Back verandah view

front verandah view