Our Cute Green Home

The house that we live in is quite nice!  We live in a very wealthy top class neighborhood.  There is a beautiful garden in the center that our balcony looks out to, and close by is the Krishna temple. It's fun to look out our balcony at the street because there is usually always something going on or fun animals to watch.  There's a lot of cute dogs everywhere, I wish I could pet them and take care of them haha! So there are always dogs in the street and the occasional cow or water buffalo! 

 

Garden view from our balcony

I share a room with Sarah, we have a nice room with a bathroom that has a real flushing toilet! (we are quite thrilled with our luck) some of the other bathrooms are….quite different!  We have a tub, but apparently it’s just for decoration, no one actually uses tubs.  So we take nice cold water “showers” (buckets of water) here.  We have a balcony with a pretty view of the garden and the street.  The balcony is shared with the room next door (Stefanie’s and Mckenna’s).  

There is a family that lives in the house; they do the laundry and cooking for us.  Everyone here is SO nice!  There are three cooks, and three translators; apart from the translators, no one else speaks English (this’ll be interesting).  The head cook, Durga, has a 2 year old boy named Sidhartha (he thinks he is the boss and does whatever he wants) and she has a three month old baby boy.  Her husband is named Raju, he does the laundry for us, he is really quiet but he is very nice.  Sailaja, one of the assistant cooks, lives here too, she is so very nice!  

Me holding the little baby (yet to be named) and Sidhartha in the back.