My house

I moved into my new house on Thursday.

It is located far away (isolated) from other volunteers’ house.
There are no small shops to get daily needs or some food: 30min by walk to the center of city.

Left half is my house (now there is a wall to separate two houses)

After my arrival, several problems came up…

1. Kitchen was under construction: it was done 3days after.

2. I couldn’t clean house for 3 days: people were inside of the house with shoes due to the kitchen construction & dust everywhere

Then I thought, yes finally I could start cooking at home!

3. I had a gas stove that Ministry of Finance lent us but the part to connect gas tube and the stove was rusted and broken.

→I had to go to another volunteer house by bike to get a spare gas stove. It took 40min…

Kitchen completed although tiles haven’t covered the water pipe

First 3 days I couldn’t really relax at home.
Even now, there is no table in the living room, no closet in my room and no curtain rails so it will still take time to really settle down here…

Desk and chair from Ministry of Finance

Air conditioner, sofa and armchairs owned by landlord

Bed that I bought

I started working this week.

The office is 1h far from my place by walk. I did this only the first day of work.
2nd day I took a taxi: 10-15min
3rd day I took bicycle: 20min

Working hour in Burkina: 7:00－12:30・15:00－17:30