Have you ever thought about how nice it is to have a sink to wash dishes in? What about a table that you can wipe off? Did you ever grumble over the amount of dirt on the floor?
I have never been so thankful for a sink to wash dishes in or table that I can wipe the dirt off and I will never complain that the floor is too dirty again!!! (or at least I will wait another week to complain!!!)
This was our kitchen in the village:
There has no sink, just some sheet metal to set your dishes on. But it leaked at the front. So if you leaned into “the sink”, you ended up wet, looking like you didn’t make it to the C.R.!!! The table had 1 inch gaps between the boards and was rough lumber, thus making it impossible to wipe without chewing up your cloth. There was no fridge or oven or cupboards to put the dishes away to. Yes, those are dirt floors too!!! There was one bench and a lot of buckets to sit on.
But we were thankful for that table because the first day we were there, there was no table at all. We were also thankful for the dogs that just wondered in as they pleased. They kept the floor free from the food the kids dropped thus keeping down the cockroach population. Although we did have to hang up any garbage bags when we weren’t there as the dogs would pull it all apart!!!! Yuck!!! We were also thankful for the abundance of banana’s. They were great!!!
You might be wondering were we slept too. We slept in the upstairs of this house. It was one room for all us to share, including Christina. I forgot to take a picture before we left, so this is how it looked with just Chuck and Erik sleeping up there. Just picture 2 more beds and a playpen added to the room with mosquitoes nets.
PS Chuck wired up a couple small fans to a battery to keep the air moving for me and Sophia!!! What a sweet husband I have. Erik was able to enjoy them too!!!
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