words... where to start. It’s a beautiful house. The district was so so generous. The house was built in 2012 I believe exclusively for the WorldTeach volunteers. It is located on the grounds of Bariadi Secondary School and is right by the headmasters, second headmasters, and teachers house. You walk in to the kitchen/ living room. The wood table and chairs in the picture has our gas stove (so lucky!) on it. So it is our kitchen countertops but also our living room table. Its the only place we have to hang out. By the main room, we each have our own bedroom. The courtyard is nice, completely closed in, with two clothes lines. On the other side of the courtyard is a separate building. There is a bathroom (with a squat toilet) and a shower room (with running water and a shower head) and both have electricity! We also have a storage room by the shower room. Overall, it is a basic house but its perfect for everything we need. I count my blessing each day because I really do think that Bariadi is the best placement in Tanzania. It is the perfect mix and has everything we should need. There is a market and bus stand right by our house, a larger market with shops and restaurants in town, beautiful countryside, and Mwanza (2nd largest city in Tanzania) is only a 4-6 hour bus ride away. I know its early but i'm pretty sure I can handle this!
Oh and a few more things about the house. Yes, there are creatures. Many of them. None that really bother me but they are definitely here. Many flies. Ants. Spiders (Nick has photos of some sizable and apparently very fast ones). Mosquitos. Lizards/geckos (really large, pretty ones). And many unknowns in our ceiling. Our house has ceiling panels which are nice, but they also provide a nice home for bats and mice especially. We do hear them at all times during the day but luckily it doesn’t bother me. We do take precautions to keep some of the bat shit from cascading down the walls in our living room with packing tape. It’s the little things, folks.
(ps. these collages are very rough and I know that. i piece them together by just using screenshots of the pictures. i think it makes the file smaller and it still gets the point across... i hope.)
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