Sunday, June 27, 2010

Mi casa, su casa

So, here are some pics from mi casa (my house) here in Unquillo, Córdoba, Argentina. It´s a pretty small house even for Argentina, but it works.
I live on Pasaje (Passage) San Lorenzo 90, which is actually on a dirt road, and I take a shortcut through this dirt path by this 'creek' (hardly), to get to the house.

The front:


This is the front door:
This is my room that I currently share with Liz, another girl from the States. It just has 2 beds and the small wardrobe, which only has 2 hangers, and a small side table which holds our space heater.
This is the kitchen - fridge, sink, stove, cupboards, table, microwave, and back door. It's pretty small, especially for 5 people sometimes, but from it comes pretty good food :)
El baño (bathroom). Yes, we do have hot water. Most days. They don't have gas pipes throughout the city, so they actually buy 10 kilo tanks of gas, and the water is cold when they run out of gas and need to buy more, about every week during the winter. (Yes, it is fall/winter here). As you can see, there is a bidet (the thing that looks like a small sink next to the toilet). My family doesn't use toilet paper, just the bidet, so I had to buy my own when I got here. And the flush for the toilet is that blue thing with the white button on the wall above the toilet.
This is our living room - it just has the TV on a small table and 2 older chairs. We usually watch Disney channel (In Spanish, of course), or a music video channel, although they do have a lot of other American shows from previous seasons with Spanish subtitles. All of these things have helped me learn Spanish!
This is our heater in the living room, which also runs off the gas. We have to light it and it heats up the area in the living room pretty decently, but it's not on all the time, and it actually gets pretty cold inside the house, sometimes colder than outside during the day. And all the floors except for our room are tile, but that makes it easy to clean with the broom/mop.
So this is my house. There are 2 other bedrooms, one for the parents and one for the kids, but they both just have beds and wardrobes too, and some toys in the kids' room. They have a very small backyard too, and I'll post pics of that later in another post. I do miss being able to take a bit longer shower with better water pressure, and definitely miss central heating. But it's comfy and works for the few weeks that I am here, and the host family is so nice! Hasta Luego! (See ya later!)

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