My Abode

I did not want to spend another night with the decomposing lizard so I needed to clean it up. For some reason, I expected it to be somewhat dry and stiff. What I found when I moved it was a filling of maggots. Yummy. I quickly scraped as much as I could onto the broken plate from the garbage pile and threw it out back before returning to spray the remaining maggots with insect killer spray. The ants took care of the rest of the job so I didn’t have too much of a mess to clean up. There was some more cleaning but I don’t have much in the way of cleaning supplies (broom, dustpan, or bleach) so there is still much to be desired.
Ok, my house. I live on the NE side of Mt. Hanang, an inactive/extinct volcano, and the house faces it. Only thing is, I don’t have the key to the front door because the teacher, who stayed there temporarily after the other PCV, has it and is gone for break. I enter through my courtyard, which is the closest door to the school anyway. Inside the house, approximately half is the main room with table & water buckets and the other half is split between the 2 bedrooms, each of which has a bed. In addition, there are 5 wooden chairs and a small desk from the school and a bookshelf. The other PCV had hung some string up I the bedrooms so I will able to dry clothes inside when it rains as well as hang my clothes up (no hangers though). Outside is my courtyard with 2 rooms on the side for cooking (the “kitchen”) and storage. At the back are 2 small rooms for the toilet and bathing. The choo (toilet) has a hole in the concrete floor and the bafu (for bathing) has a smooth floor with a hole out the back corner to drain the water. My house is duplex style so I can hear my neighbor through the walls and over the courtyard wall but he cannot see into my courtyard. This means there is no need to close the choo door if the courtyard door is closed; though the view isn’t quite as good as the outhouse I used in the Adirondacks this past summer (whose door wouldn’t close).