Homestay Family

We arrived at our homestay on Saturday afternoon, which sucked because I was sick the entire day. The altitude has been completely throwing me off… Mama and Baba Ashraf are always teaching us new words now and actually over feed us. Robert and Ashi are their two sons. We also have a Baba (live-in house maid that does all the cooking and cleaning) named Sophia. Our room is small but we unpacked and organized all our things so we’re feeling much more at home now.

Our house is on Kilakala and the office is less than 5 minutes away, which is awesome for us. We also live right next to the mountains and once the jetlag if worn off and I’m feeling better we’re going to climb it on a weekend trip. There are apparently beautiful waterfalls and it’s an awesome view. In our house there’s also another family living behind us and the roofs have space between them and the walls so Mama Ash yells to them a lot and they laugh. The squat toilets are NOOOTTT FFUUNNNN but we’re getting used to them.

I’m much more home sick than I expected to be but the whole weekend we just sat around and watched tv and walked around the neighbourhood with Baisa (family friend), plus I’ve felt horrible, so I think that’s why. We also went to Church with Baisa and his friend translated the sermon to me so I understood. We met the pastor and had to introduce ourselves infront of the church and everything :P. So far so good, but I miss everyone tooooooooooooo much,

Robert on the left and Ashi on the right

Me and Linda

My room and my stuff :)

Our calendar and my picture Marshal drew me :)

Our living room / where we eat 

There are some pictures of our house, our street and Robert and Ashraf. Ashi is 11 and Robert is 18. They’re shy but they try to teach us as many words as possible.

So far so good – I really want to start working now!!