Nostro Casa

. . . our house was quite dirty when we arrived and only had the basics in-regards to furniture and kitchen items. We were all a little disappointed at first, but as we cleaned the floors and swept the spider webs away it started to feel a little bit better. Maya does not like spider webs so she was good at pointing all of them out to me and helped make sure that I did a good job cleaning them up! :)

The weather here is quite hot (think Bakersfield . . . yes, Bakersfield it even smells like Bakersfield sometimes) and there is no central air - the homes are made of brick and cinder blocks to help keep them cool. Our house has beautiful wood doors and shutters but we have to keep the shutters closed most of the time to help keep the house at a bearable temperature. Our kitchen is not much to look at but it has a nice door into the backyard. All in all I think this will be a comfortable home for us.

It has been nice to see and start to learn a different way of living. For instance in the morning everyone opens up there homes and sweeps the patios. In the month of August everyone is on vacation so stores and restaurants are closed for weeks at a time. We are having to wait to get a lot of things that were promised for our house because people are on vacation. But the waiting is not really frustrating it is kind of refreshing - it seems to be a more balanced way of life.