We Have A Home

Yay! We found ourselves a home. Extremely excited to start getting settled. I adore this country already but I'll love it even more after I feel at home. It's not as good as Canada of course haha. I say that cos I'm Canadian. So our home is lovely. It has 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, huge living room, a great sized kitchen, nice backyard, and an under area underneath the house because it's on stilts. Most the floor is hardwood. No carpet! I hate carpet. So bathrooms are different here, there will be one room with the toilet and sometimes it has a tiny sink. Then the shower and larger sink are in a separate room. Sometimes the two rooms are next to each other, but in my house the large bathroom with the shower is between the bedrooms then you have to walk through the living room and kitchen to get to the room with the toilet. It's weird for me but completely normal here. I'm thinking what if I wake up in the middle of the night and need a pee, I need to walk through the entire house? Is this normal? I'll just get a bucket for the end of the bed haha. I'm not 80. On the positive side the toilet room is near the back steps, so if we are drinking outside it's not a far walk. Or I could always just hug a tree, but I'd be scared that a poisonous creature would bite my bum and or lady part then death by pee. Nah, I'm told that you rarely see anything poisonous. But with my luck, you never know. I was hanging out clothes the other day and something stung/bit my toe. Something got stuck in my flats and decided to take it out on my poor toe. I then left my shoes outside and ran to Lucas asking him if I was going to die. He laughed and said no. Obviously I didn't die but I don't know what it was. Most likely it was an ant, if so ants are the devil cos it bloody hurt! Was all swollen and red. Hopefully my anxiety won't get the best of me. Oh ya back to my house, so there is this "activity" room under the house. Stilts are high enough that you can walk under and it's concrete floor and loads of space. We plan to buy some cheap furniture online ( they don't have kijiji but there is gumtree which is exactly the same) and set up a hang out area for beerbqs. I'm going to spray the shit out of it with bug killer. No need for spiders in my activity room. They are not invited. Maybe I'll invest in an air hockey table... The back yard is decent, just needs some Martha Stewart loving. I'm going to look into which plants to garden and make myself a tiny veggie area. I can garden all year around, that's amazing eh! Not just 4 months of the year but the entire year. As of now we have kitchen supplies, plates, bowls, cutlery, mugs, cups, frying pan, pots and all that jazz but no fridge. Here a fridge is rarely supplied. How awkward eh? It's a hot country so you would think people wouldn't want to have to move a fridge from house to house or to be able to quickly store their food? But nope. We also have our bedding, it's awesomely awesome. Very colorful. Pillows are comfy as. Waiting for the bed to arrive Friday. Basically we have nothing in our house to be able to live. It's okay though because our home is across the road from the couple we are staying with. We are just going to remain here until we get some things. They are good people, we get along well. Happy about the area. At the end of the road (which is about a 5 minute walk) there is a tasty bakery, fish n' chips take away, Thai and Mexican take away, a chemist (which is a pharmacy in Canadian lingo, it also has make up and all that stuff), a tiny grocery store, a library (going to get a card soon), an Op Shop (they are similar to Value Village, second hand stuff), a beer store, 7 Eleven and a laundromat. The house is a 5 minute walk to the train, which is always beneficial. A funny story. Lucas and I went to the Op Shop the other day and the lady working the cash called me on my accent right away "oh I love your Canadian accent" then made small talk and said "I hear canadia is gorgeous" yes that is correct, some people call Canada canadia. I've heard it a couple of times and just laugh to myself (not out loud cos that would be creepy) but I guess because the people of Canada are known as canadians they say canadia for the country. Likely cos Australia, Australians...it's comical. People reading this likely don't find it funny but I do. Anyways, I get Internet in 5 days. Counting down the days because it's almost been 2 weeks since I've heard a Canadian accent. I miss hearing it. Also I'll be able to finally skype my family and friends. I miss my niece so much. Can't wait to see her and my sister Veronica. Plus all my other loved ones. But it's extremely difficult being away from Torah. I talk about her often, and I'm almost crying typing about her. But in 5 days I'll be able to show her my house and I'm sure she will just pretend to be a cat or show me whatever toy she loves for that week. Either way, it will be awesome and much needed. Anyways, it's starting to become a novel. Until next time, xo.