Virtual tour of my flat

To celebrate this snazzy internet connection and the fact that I think I have completed all my domestic upgrades to my flat in Uganda, I'd like to offer this virtual tour of my flat.  My flat is attached to the Josephine Tucker dormitory, where I resided my last semester of seminary.  Some of my students stay there in the January and May semesters, and I'll never forget the looks on their faces when the first saw that I am their neighbor.  It was priceless.

Let's start with the verandah.  The front of this loveseat is a bit sunbleached now, but I love it.

This kitty is often on the loveseat, at least until the sun becomes too much.  I call him Mzee (old man) Kitty, because he certainly walks like he's an old man.  Clearly, he's threatened by my presence.

The Dennison's cat occasionally wanders in if the door is open, and this day, she surprised me by demanding requesting admittance.  She was denied... this time.



These are the moonflowers that are growing just off the verandah, and I am all kinds of obsessed with them.  I do have a gardener so that they have a chance at not only surviving, but thriving.  The dormitory is on the far side of the bush, and you can see that the wall was painted a slightly different color last year. 

When you walk into the sitting room, this is the view.  I just purchased the sofa, loveseat, chair (in the bedroom) and tables from a Canadian couple who just returned to Canada.  They are precious and I will miss them, but I do love the furniture!  It is beautiful, comfortable, and well-built, a rare trifecta.  The cross has a descending dove in the middle, with palm-face hands on the beams.

Helen, my housekeeper, chose the curtain for the front door, so it rather dictated the colors for the room!  I chose the turquoise to offset the orange in the fabric and the bookcases, and was thrilled to find the wall hanging at Banana Boat.  It's quite tall, and though all of it doesn't show here, it frames the wall well; the ceiling is 12 feet.


 
This is the view into the kitchen, with the cooker (stove/oven) in front, with the propane tank beside.  It takes me around six months to use the propane in the tank, whereas a larger family might go through a tank in 4-6 weeks.  Yes, I am that domestic.  On the top of the bookcase/pantry is the lighter I use to ignite the burners on the stovetop and the oven, because I'd surely burn my fingers off if I used matches.

This long table is my primary counterspace, though I'm thrilled that both my best friend, Kim, and Mary Jane, who lives behind me, convinced me that 1. missionaries can have such amenities as microwaves and 2. there was space for it.  I love that my stoneware (seen in the bowls, but is echoed in the plates) carries both the green of the kitchen and the orange of the sitting room, where I eat.

My apologies; I thought I could rotate the picture in the software, and apparently I can't.  However, I did want to show you that 1. I have a refrigerator, and 2. the yellow can is the jerry can that contains fresh [drinking] water.



The master bedroom.  I admired the sheets while I was in the guest house awaiting the repairs to my flat, and they followed me here.  With the bedside table, now I have a lamp by which I can more easily read in bed, since I won't have to get up to turn off the light.  Woohoo!!



The guest room/office, where I think I spend most of my time.  The bed is a new acquisition, and my suitcases fit underneath, which was my main goal.  The chair is also a recent roadside acquisition, and the carpenter was none too amused that I only wanted one, not four, thereby breaking up the set.  The bulletin board to the left is going to go to the office, though I've heard we will be moving, so I'm waiting to see whether that is true.