My home

This is my home. It is a duplex, another family lives on the other side in an almost identical place (they do not have their porches fenced in). This is also before the painters came and spruced up the outside of the house with new paint and before the carpenter came and hung new nets (screens) on the windows and on both porches. They give the windows a yellow tint.

This is my bathroom on the day after the water was running. I filled up all four buckets with water as well as my reserve containers (see them in the kitchen and on the porch - next photo). There is a hot water heater that I do not know how to use, and no shower heads. I take bucket baths - that is I fill two buckets halfway: one is for washing my hair and one for bathing.

The porch between my bathroom and WC and the kitchen. See the yellow screens? This is one of my reserve water containers that I fill when the water is running and use when it is not.

This is the porch between the kitchen and the living room. The yellow door at the end has a spring on it, so I have to be careful to not spill or drop food while carrying it from the kitchen to the dining area. I dropped a sachet of water one day getting through that doorway, it broke like a water balloon!

The kitchen features a gas cooker (a gas stove that does not have a pilot light, so has to be lit with matches - you cannot see the propane tank, it is out of frame on the left), my other water reserve container, a sink, a yellow cabinet, and a refrigerator that is currently on the fritz (the freezer part works, but the fridge part is warm).

My bedroom featuring my mosquito netted bed and the yellow wardrobe. The window in the background has a window air conditioner that I used once. I prefer the ceiling fan and an open window.

The dining area, I rarely use this at the moment.

My living room. I have a sofa and three mini papasan chairs, a desk with chair by the far window and a relatively newly acquired bookshelf. I spend most of my time in this room. It has a ceiling fan and cross ventilation. I read sitting on the sofa, grade and play computer games at the desk, sit in one of the chairs to watch a dvd on my laptop, and eat meals here in all three of those locations.