Our Apartment
We lived on
the top floor of an old building that had 1 bedroom apartments with small
kitchens and then at the end of the building it had one 2 bedroom apartment but
with no kitchen.
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Bedroom |
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Bedroom |
So the
university must have improvised, because they took the second bedroom and made
it into a kitchen /office. One side was
office and one side kitchen. It had a
small refrigerator, table and a china cabinet on one side of the room and 2
desks on the other side of the room.
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Kitchen/office |
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Office |
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Our dishes and food storage. |
It
had a very large divided bathroom, one room with a vanity with 2 sinks, so we
used one for our kitchen sink and the other for the bathroom sink. We always had dishes drying on the counter in
the bathroom. Then there was another
room with the toilet, bathtub and a small washing machine.
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Bathroom and Kitchen sinks |
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Yes that machine in the middle is our washing machine. (small loads) |
It had a nice sized living room with a couch
and we had a TV that had cable and we had two English stations, the BBC and the
national TV station that had news from the government.
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There were times when we had to wear a sweater or fleece to stay warm. |
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Living room. |
We cooked on hot plates, a microwave and a
little roasting oven. You could bake
maybe 4 cookies on a tray at a time.
That made making a batch of cookies a long process, but Chris did it
many times. We also had a crock pot, so
we got along just fine. We often had 6
people to dinner and would move the table into the living room and it was just
right. But we did eat out a lot. We found it just as cheap to eat out as it
was to cook. If we went to the student’s dining hall we could eat for under a
dollar. We didn’t eat there all that often;
the food was not as good.
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One of the 3 student dinning halls on campus. |
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A typical lunch at the student dinning hall. |
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We never went hungry. |
But there
were many other dining halls on campus that made it very convenient to eat out
and were only a little more expensive.
So we usually would spend 2 or 3 dollars for lunch or dinner. I would ride my bike over to a market about
10 minutes away and buy fried noodles and fried rice at a small stall in the
market. I really liked those noodles. I would get them “La Da”, which means
spicy. We got invited out to eat once in awhile and a few times we were invited
to a student’s home for dinner.
Eating dinner at one of my student's home, Arron's.
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We did get invited out to eat once in awhile. |
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We did get invited out to eat once in awhile. That is John and Carol Galbraith on the left. |
We had a
lot of mosquitoes and I would smash them on the walls and ceilings and so we
had a lot of bloody dead mosquitoes on the walls and ceilings. I got tired of waking up with more mosquito
bites so we hung a mosquito net and slept under the net and that saved us. We also bought a contraption that looked like
a small tennis racket that had wires instead of strings and was battery
operated. If you swung it into a
mosquito it would fry the mosquito. That
was a lot of fun. We were quite
comfortable there and enjoyed it and realized you can live with a lot less
stuff.
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