A new home

This week I moved into my new home. Friends back home had joked that I would be living in a mud hut, but they couldn’t be more wrong. My new home is the biggest house I’ve ever lived in! It has four bedrooms: one for me, one for my fellow volunteer Zoe, one for an office, and one for guests. There is a kitchen (but read this in the loosest possible way), a room for washing clothes and a mandi (I’ll come back to that one). There is also a huge garden with mature fruit trees including mango, avocado, coffee & others that I don’t know the names of yet but are very tasty! The house is set in the foothills of the mountains that surround Ruteng, so the views are also spectacular.

The mandi is the wash facility. It’s kinda like a tall square bath, but you don’t get in it. Instead you keep a supply of cold (it may not be a mud hut but there are still some hardships) water in it. This you scoop into a bucket & mix with boiled water and then throw over yourself – pretty refreshing really!

So that’s my house, the guestroom is ready & waiting, so come & see for yourself!