The house is beautiful! In fact, I’ve pretty much decided that it is ideal, though larger than I’d ever need.
To begin with, there are three floors. The first opens into a very open living room/dining room area with wooden floors. It isn’t really furnished but we have a table with chairs, a bookshelf, a mattress for sitting, and four poster sized maps. The openness also lends itself to practicing handstands.
The first floor also has the bathroom and kitchen. The kitchen is decently spacious (much better than Goodhue!) with a gas stove but no oven. We also keep bottled water for drinking there. The one thing about the bathroom is that the shower is rather creepy. It´s an electric shower, but the switch to turn on the heater is inside the shower and there are wires all around. It just seems to be the perfect way to be shocked.
The second floor has Jesse and Coral’s rooms and a small outdoors balcony. (Jesse’s room has an awesome mural of dolphins.) We usually watch movies in the open area of this floor. This week, we actually watched three very different movies. (Baraka was my favorite.) This floor also overlooks the first floor, and along the staircase, there are trenches were you are supposed to plant flowers. We all agree that it would be beautiful with filled with plants.
There is only a small, skinny staircase leading to the third floor where the students live. There is one large room, which Elizabeth and I share. Since this is the attic, the ceiling slopes downward, so we both have our mattresses in corners with the ceiling barely above us. It’s cozy. We also have a window looking out over
The rest of the third floor is split into two sections by our room. The guys sleep on one side, and the other has the communal bookshelf and mattresses for hanging out. This floor also looks over the other floors, and right above the staircase is a huge skylight. My favorite part of this house is how well it uses natural light. This skylight floods most of the house with light, and downstairs, a number of the walls are simply windows, so that in the day, we don’t need to turn on the lights. I love it!
The house is also right next to our landowner`s, and there is a courtyard between the two where Luna, our neighbor´s dog, lives. We also do our laundry here. We have a nice backyard which overlooks Cuenca. We´re on the side of a hill, so the view is pretty good.
Also, last night we added a tree climbing rope to the house. We needed to test it before our adventure tomorrow, so we tied it off on the third floor and then practiced climbing inside. Additionally, Elizabeth used to do web in the circus, so she taught us a couple of the basic holds. Yay for circus tricks!
I´ll try to post about my normal schedule in Cuenca next time we´re in town. (Probably about a week.)
The house sounds lovely. I can see why you love, with the spaciousness and light.
ReplyDeleteSo when do we get to see pictures? Presumably when you come home.
Well, I forgot my flashdrive today, so you´ll have to at very least wait until I have that (with pictures on it) and fast internet. I´ll try to update then.
ReplyDeletePlus, you can see more when we see each other in real life again.