Home, Sweet Home

We have now been living in our quaint little home for two weeks.  Sparse though it is, it is quite nice.   As you can see here in this lovely picture, we are near Mt. Kilimanjaro. 

Here is a more accurate representation of out house… (no we don’t have giraffes in our backyard)

                

 

This is the college campus.  The building you can see in the foreground is the main lecture hall and administration offices.  The other classrooms, offices, dorms and library mostly lie father back. We live just a football field (that’s a soccer field to you Yankees) away from the campus.  Mt. Kilimanjaro makes for quite a view when it it visible. In fact, I can see it out my window when the sky is clear.

(This a picture out my window of Kili. No, I don’t live in jail.  All of the windows in the house come with lovely, sight-blocking metal bars.)

(Notice our beautiful new Land Rover)

Our house consists of two bedrooms, a spacious living room, a tiny bathroom, a kitchen and a dinning room. 

        

          

As you can see, our walls are in need of some decoration.  The entire house is a rather unbecoming shade of yellow, though I shouldn’t complain because it could have been off white or puke green.  Although we have bare light bulbs protruding from the walls and our furniture could easily pass a patio chairs in the States, our home is comfortable enough.

You may have noticed the bug nets over the beds (if you hadn’t, look again).  These are both a hindrance and a comfort.  They make it difficult to make your bed and move about, but once you’re all tucked in, its nice to know that you won’t have to be swatting potentially disease ridden mosquitoes all night.

Other multi-legged visitors to our home often include geckos.  These cute little milk-white critters always have a way of finding their way into my room.  They seem to like to hang out high up on the corner of the wall near the ceiling.  Because if their speed, and wiggling movements, and high hiding places they are most difficult to catch and so we have decided to leave them and eat whatever bugs they wish.

My favorite part about the house is the locks.  Not because I’m afraid of our safety or anything like that but because of the kind of locks we have.  I’m proud to say that you need a good old fashioned skeleton key to get into our house.  Actually, many of the buildings around here require skeleton keys, something I find rather endearing.  As far as safety is concerned, there really is no concern here.  The college is gated and the premises are completely safe. 

As for our yard, in the front we have a small corn field planted by the house’s previous occupant and in the back a few banana trees and an avocado tree from which many have fallen.  Hopefully we’ll have some fresh bananas soon.

And that concludes the tour of our home.  If you would like a more detailed look at our house, you’ll just have to come visit!