Our House in the Village - with Video!

Some things take a long time to happen around here.  We are still working on getting our paperwork and money in the right order for getting our work permits and even buying a car.   But then other times you casually mention that you might like to see a house to live in temporarily and suddenly you find yourself handed keys to the house (sight unseen!).

This has led us to living in our temporary house in the village.  For the next two next months, we are living just a short walk from where we were before.  It's a one-bedroom, Thai-style house.

Here's the short tour:

Taken from right outside our front door,
you can see the shop and noodle restaurant
where we get most of our food right now.

As you can see, we are still working on getting set up.  We don't have a refrigerator or table yet, and we spend a lot of time sitting on the ground.  There are a couple of little shops within walking distance that sell eggs and rice and some vegetables.  If we are lucky, there is some meat to be found in their refrigerators that we can buy.  We don't have transportation yet, so we rely on these little shops daily for our food.  In some ways, we are living a lot like our neighbors.  We are getting a first-hand look at what it typical life looks like here.  Many of them live in bamboo houses (as you can see from the video), but ours is concrete.

In April, we will be moving to our long-term house in town.  By that time, we'll have transportation and the house itself will probably feel like a luxury.  We are living this adventure one day at a time.