This is Casa Verde, where 22 other students and I are living. Yes...all in one house. I am in the furthest back room with another woman, and share a bathroom and a shower with 3 other females. There are four boys total with us. They are all quartered together in the front of the house (by the kitchen and snacks of course!). We're pretty comfortable despite the crowd. We have rooms for study and visiting and interneting (I know that's not a word, but I was keeping the trend going) in the front on the second floor. There's also a patio where we line dry our clothes at the back of the second floor. There's also a classroom on the bottom floor behind our room. I like our house, except our shower had no hot water the first 5 days and our toilet broke on day 3. I deemed us the "the rustic wing" of the house. Did I mention that one of us in that wing also had bedbugs. Pobrecita. I figure it prepares us for our upcoming rural homestay where we most likely won't have flushing toilets and will probably bucket bathe. I didn't mind all too much, but it was nice to take a warm shower this morning :)

29 January 2009