Crib and more
May 19th, 2010 by V Singh
A lot of people have been asking me about my accommodation. To be very concise: My accommodation is awesome! Since pictures say more than than thousand words, I’m now publishing a bunch of pictures of “my crib”:
The outside, with “ma car”. Picture of the door (No idea why I took that picture). Anywho! Pictures of the inside:
Living room area. The living room is connected to the dining room and the kitchen:
The kitchen, on its hand, is connected to two tiny rooms – one is more like a mini lobby – which is connected to a small bedroom. There’s a staircase to the left – which isn’t visible in the picture. It leads to the bottom floor – which is where the security guard, the household helper and a kid (don’t know who he is, from where he came or anything – he just lives there) – lives. So basically I’ve got the two floors to myself.
Going up the stairs: to the left lies my room, which is right next to my bathroom.
My room, as it is – with no make up done to show how neat I am. I’m a mess. Luckily the household helper helps cleaning and clearing up and I do appreciate all help I get (as that lets me slack even more…) The reason why the positioning of the bed is different in the two pictures, is because the household helper randomly felt like rearranging the furniture in my room – without asking me. I’m considering which setting I like the most. The former, where the bed is in the centre of the room, gave me light from both sides- as there are windows on both sides of the bed (on both walls) – but there wasn’t much space to sit on the floor and play my instruments. The new setting gives me more floor space but I only get light from one window (on my face) in the morning, that is, the one in front of me (opposite to the bed). Hard decisions in life….
The household helper got so tired of seeing my unpacked bags lying around for such a long time (I hadn’t had to unpack for like two weeks) – she unpacked my bags, folded the clothes and put them in the drawers. Which is why I never find what I’m looking for. Boohoo!
Anyway, the crib! Pictures continue:
The toilet.
Beside the toilet is the veranda and the extra bedroom I’ve got. This is where you stay when YOU come and visit (I shall try to arrange a blanket for you when you confirm you are coming). This “you” of course is directed to anyone who wants to come and see Ethiopia 
The veranda and some random pictures of the view taken while I was testing my new camera:
The kid who lives on the bottom floor, who lives with the security guard and the household helper (no he’s not their child…)
The dogs, Dino and…. don’t remember the name of the other one… serve as security for the house. And to ruin my sleep at night when they randomly start barking at nothing particular. And make my hard difficult when I get home as they bark their throat off as soon as they see me – scare the sh*t out of me (pretty traumatic having a huge dog run at you..)
All in all, it can be stated that my accommodation is pretty decent, and that its the least of my concerns here. My concerns are rather trivial to be honest – how to manage to fit everything in the day – work, piano lessons, working out at the gym and/or salsa, blog and/or facebook (my rather awkward notion of relaxing) and sleeping enough! So far the sleep has had to suffer – but then again, I can always sleep when I grow older 