Mi Casa

I´ve had a few requests for more info about the city of Los Reyes and where I´m living. Here´s a picture of our place on Calle Orquidea . It´s a very typical looking house for the area and this day looked better than average as it had just finished raining and there are some very tipico hombres passing.

The house is only about a 7 min walk to the school and is close-by lots of local shops selling all manner of things: tortillas, fruit, chicken, a beauty wholesaler called Gato Negro, plus there is an abbarotes , a local convenience store on every corner. Tomorrow they are even opening a pharmacia right across the street. We already have a hospital and 2 other pharmacies within 2 blocks plus the ambulance station and the firemen side x side on the corner behind the hospital.

Our house has 4 or 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms but is very dark. Making it nice and cool in the hot humid months but decidedly cool in the morning now as all the windows are the typical jalousie-type with screens and slats of glass. Since there are 4 teachers in the house the 1st one to arrive got the choice. Brandon, the only man, has this beautiful large room with tons of built in cupboards as well as a bathroom the size of my bedroom with a huge jacuzzi tub! We are all envious of course. The only negative is that room is at the front and we are on a rather busy street. (car driver seem to blare music at the loudest possible volume and those same drivers don´t seem to bother with air conditioning which would keep the sound to themselves. ) Plus he does get the full blast of sun till about 1 pm.

My room is the smallest but I do have my own bathroom and the room next to it which is empty has a door to the back patio where the Kitten spends most of his afternoons....especially now as it has a plastic corrugated roof and gets nice and warm. Temperatures in November are much more moderate...around 22-22 and much much less humid.

Here are some photos. Most of the furniture in the casa is very dark so I, being the 2nd to arrive, snapped up the bright blue shelf. I´ve also added the poster from the Zacan Festival to the window wall.