Wednesday, May 20, 2009

My resort style living

So I was under the impression that I would be living in really harsh situations but that is not the case at all. Right when I got in they had a security system to get into the volunteer house. We each have our own private rooms with soft carpet, king size memory foam beds, and climate control. We also have huge private bathrooms with heated tile floors, toilets with heated seats and bidets, a shower that has hot water and flows out like a waterfall. We also have our own kitchens that we don´t really need to use because we have 24hr room service. Also, in our common area we have comfortable furniture with a 62in plasma TV that gets something like 300 channels. We also have people that will do our laundry for us...this is not what I expected.





P.S. By living room with comfy furniture I mean some wooden benches and broken chairs with a couple of small tables. Also shown in this picture is our washer and dish washer to the right and our dryer to the left.



By private rooms I mean 6 to a room we also did have a fairly large TV but we never watched it and they took it. You can also see that by king size memory foam bed I mean a twin size straw rock hard mattress.



By nice shower I mean rigged up container of water that if you want warm water you have to boil it and then when you pull the water bottle down the other one goes up letting the water come out of the spout at a very slow rate.
By nice kitchen I mean it has a stovewith one working burner and an oven that we actually just leave open and use as a second burner
And by nice toilets with heated seats and bidets I mean a hole in the ground that we squat over and then throw water on to wash it down.



Having said all this I don´t mind. I actually prefer it this way because I experience how the people here are living. If I were to go to a 5 star resort at the end of each day then I would not experience what it is really like down here. Also, we are in many cases better off for instance we have 3 full meals a day and we have clean water that we can buy from the market just upstairs from where we are staying and although the house is not perfect it has 4 walls as well as a roof which ic also more than some of the people here can say

6 comments:

  1. Good Job Brandão.... I m sure you are trying a lot of news experiences and it will help you a lot in your jorney... Take care
    Luiz

    ReplyDelete
  2. I can not imagine you sleeping on one of those beds. Could you ask for two to put right next to eachother? haha I do not see you fitting. Is the bottom picture your toile hole? You should post pictures on facebook. I hope everything is ging well.
    April

    ReplyDelete
  3. Brandão ...canta "La unica razao de mi adoracion, eres tu mi Senor.... El unico motivo para viver eres tu mi Senor..

    ReplyDelete
  4. Proud of you and I always thought roughing it was a Days Inn and driving a Ford.. :)

    ReplyDelete
  5. BRANDON,

    IF YOU GET THIS TWICE SORRY. A AM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF IT IS GOING TO YOU. LOVE AND PRAYING FOR YOU JAMIE SAYS HI

    CATHY

    ReplyDelete
  6. BRANDON,
    WE ARE PRAYING FOR YOU AND ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU.!!!! THE TOILET WOULD BE A STRETCH FOR ME. LOVE YOU
    CATHY

    ReplyDelete