A lot of people have been asking me to see the inside of our house, so that's the purpose of this blog post. We actually have had a maid now for the past week and a half and it has been really nice. She does a great job and comes every other weekday. We share her with Amy and Isabelle upstairs. It's crazy to have a maid, because that is not normal in the states, but it is nice here because things get dusty and dirty very fast. Especially if we have the windows open, the floors and furniture get dirty with dust. It's nice to not have to do the dishes too! ha. However, our days are pretty long, considering we get picked up at 6:15 am to take the van to school and then sometimes don't get home until 6:00 at night if we work out after school. So having a maid is nice in that sense. Each of us pay her $35 a month - which equals to her making $140 for the month, however we also pay for her transportation here and back home everyday, which is only about 20-30 cents a day. I also gave her money the other day and she went to the streets and the market and bought me a laundry basket, clothes-pins, hangers, and avocados. It is a lot cheaper to go through her to get those things, rather than me going to the store to buy them. I bought hangers in the store for like $12 or so and she got the same amount for around $5, so it definitely makes a difference. Soon she is going to start cooking for us as well, which I am really excited for. We told her that she can make any Haitian food she wants. She hasn't started yet b/c it's been a hectic week AND we don't have the food she needs to cook. So once we get that taken care of, we will be eating some delicious homemade cooking. :) More to come on that.
Anyways... now for a tour of our Haitian house...
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| When you walk in the green front door (posted on a previous blog post) you then turn left and walk down the stairs to our part of the house. If you go straight in the green front door, that is Amy and Isabelle's part of the house. |
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| The nice artwork at the end of our stairs. You turn right and enter.... |
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| Welcome to our place! :) |
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| Right when you walk in is the living room/dining room. It is very big. Panoramic pictures always make the scene look bigger, but this is actually huge. Our room and full bathroom is to the left and the kitchen is to the right. And then through that door up there is a big walk in closet, another room and another full bathroom. |
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| Our room :) Ironically the curtains matched the bedspread I brought. Perfect! :) The air conditioner is above the bed and only really keeps the bedroom cool, which is fine. And we have a full bathroom there on the left, however we don't shower in this one b/c the water pressure is better in the other bathroom! :) |
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| Our kitchen. I LOVE the colors. I had to do a panoramic, but our kitchen is long and skinny, so this kind of looks distorted. That door to the right leads to outside and to our laundry.... |
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| Laundry out there and then another set of stairs outside. |
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| Our awesome pantry! Please take note of the spider killer bottles. I used almost the whole bottle today de-spiderizing our place. |
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| A small 1/2 bathroom right by the kitchen that we rarely ever use. I've actually never used it yet. |
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| The spare bedroom - incase anyone wants to come visit! :) There is another air conditioner in here also. Don't mind the broken curtain rod... people were here fixing the cranks on our windows and broke it. Now we are going to have to have someone come in and fix this. lol |
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| The bathroom in the spare bedroom. :) This is the one we use, not only b/c it has better water pressure, but the only mirror in the house is in here. And please, check out the size of the mirror. Not okay! I've requested a bigger mirror from the school. lol. Oh, and a big THANK YOU to Tammy LaRene for getting me a little "owl" to take with me to Haiti. She gave me the shower curtain! I love it! :) |
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| And in case you noticed the two toilets in the previous picture and were curious... haha. A bidet! LOL! And yes, it works. I had to sit on it the first day! hahaha. I haven't sat on it since b/c it creeps me out a little bit. It isn't like the bidets at Nakishima! :) |
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| My closet! :) I love it! It's huge! Don't worry - BG has a closet in our bedroom that you couldn't see from the pictures. :) |
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| I tried to get a pic from our window view in our living room. It is pretty sweet. We look over a lot of small houses! |
Piti, piti, wazo fe nich li.
Little by little the bird builds its nest.
-Haitian Proverb
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