Pictures of the Residence

Here are pics of the house that we took on our day of arrival.

Firstly, here's a shot of the exterior:

It's a duplex, and we live on the top floor. We haven't met our downstairs neighbours yet; it will be their second year with the school and they are currently on vacation. The stairs up to our place are behind the red wall. Every house here has an open carport-style garage. They are always clean, and yes that's a large plant container at the back of the garage. The size of our front yard is larger than most; this indicates that our house is smaller than most rather than us having a bigger yard.

Next up is a pic of our sitting room. I'm only calling it that because (as you can see), the only furnishings in it are of the sitting variety.

We also have a living room. Here's two views of it:

And our spacious kitchen, with the two baskets of food and jugs of water they gave us:

Finally, the bedroom (we didn't bother with pics of the spareroom, because it's pretty much the same). You can see they pushed two single beds together to make one big one. They bought new sheets and towels, and included blue bags from the school with regulation books in them. There's also a shot of cabinet in our huge walk-in closet. Neither of us could fill our sides of it.

Our ensuite has a sink area, and a large glass-enclosed shower.

So these are the new digs. We're obviously pretty happy with them...