Our Permanent Home!

Proud owner of a book shelf

 On Sunday we moved to our new place which will be our permanent home in Wad Medani.  It is the Teacher’s Union which is a conference centre for ‘educational stuff’ and has a block of en-suite rooms for people who have to travel a distance.  We are on the ground floor and are the only people living there.  It is set in some pleasant gardens and is very close the two boys’ schools and two girls’ schools we will be teaching in and so very convenient.  The shops are in reasonable distance but it feels quite far when walking in the heat so we have used a rakshar (tuk-tuk) to get there.  We think there are some nearer shops in a different direction but we have yet to explore.

The walls were crusty brown before we scrubbed all day

Thrilled to have a wardrobe and to be able to unpack everything

Martin playing ghosties behind the mozzy net

The room is a reasonable size but it is like a hotel room with nowhere to sit other than on the bed which is fine if you are on holiday but not so convenient when you are living and working there.  The Ministry of Education however have been more than helpful and have said they will find us a table and a couple of chairs plus a bookcase which will be very helpful.  We had to scrub the whole place as it was really filthy! But we are making it our own and are very happy to have unpacked finally after living out of suitcases since June 15^th!

We have had to buy a few things though. We have a fridge in our room, but decided we needed some bowls for food for the fridge.  Basic stuff like plates and cutlery plus plastic bowls for washing our clothes and a little and iron.  There is no kitchen attached to our room, but we have been given authority to use the Teacher’s Union’s kitchen when they give us a key he he.  This will be another adventure I suspect.