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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Flip This House Peace Corps Guyana Style - Stage 3 November 2011 Onward

So my house is still a work in progress. I still need a fence, water to the toilet and oh yeah...the bats in the roof need to be exterminated. Work continues slowly, but now that I am living in my "mansion" I am SUPER happy!! I love my walk to work, the almost constant easterly breeze, the quiet sounds of my village and, of course, my dog Dharma.

Moving day!

No electricity...only for 9 days and no bed for the first night. :)

Andrea Shaw made this for me.

LIGHTS!

Dharma staring down a goat.

Doing a great job of chasing the animals away.

Refrigerator!

Ice cold happiness.

My amazing kitchen. I don't have curtains, but I did have an extra hammock-so I just threw that up.

I LOVE cooking in my kitchen on my 4 burner stove.

Fairy lights for reading at night.

Doing her job of keeping other animals out.

Big big big

My landlord Singh spraying the bats with Baygon. For the record, it does not work.

Playing with Dharma one last time before I went to New Amsterdam for the election relocation.

The coolest spot in the house.

Plenty of room to play.

My adorable puppy.

Sink in the hallway.

Chill out/ relaxation room. That thing on the wall is my prepaid meter.

Pink bedroom. :)

Such a happy day! I love seeing that wire.

Dharma's stupidey ear is cute.

My AMAZING shower head.

         
Muddy path to school.





  

Flip This House Peace Corps Guyana Style- Step 2 August-November 2011
















I did all of the wall painting myself! With a little help from June. :)

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Flip This House Peace Corps Guyana Style- Stage 1 (June -August 2011)




This is what the outside of the house looked like. Complete with plank step.

Even with great preparation, I got stung on three separate occasions, playing exterminator.