Our new home

Our friends here had made arrangements for us to live in a home on a missionary compound for our time in Nigeria. This compound is pretty big with six homes as well as offices located in it. There is a wall completely surrounding the whole compound and there's two gates for people to enter into the compound. Guards are there twenty-four hours a day to make sure that only those who should come in are allowed inside. Our house sits near one of the gates, so from our living room we can see everyone coming and going. The house is a real blessing to us because it's fully furnished with everything we could need while we're here, and one of our friends whom we used to hang out with before lives on the same compound.

This is our cute little blue home.

Here is the fireplace in our living room. We want to use it sometime- maybe just to roast some marshmellows... The red box sitting on the hearth is a stabilizer for electricity. The electricity comes and goes here and at times it'll surge, so you buy this sort of thing to plug your valuable electronics into, so when a surge happens your computer doesn't get fried.

This is the whole of the living room. You can see the light from the open front door to the left. I was standing in the dining room/kitchen entry to take this picture.

Here is the dining room. It's nice to have the two windows there for light and breeze.

Uche was cooking some Nigerian food while I snapped this. He's happy to be back to using local ingredients and the fresh produce here. Our refrigerator is small, but it works so we're happy- you can see it on the left side. To the left side of the stove is a storage room. It has shelves to store all kinds of things and our water heater sits in there which is used to heat water in the bathroom and kitchen. In the Philippines hot water heaters are a luxury, but here it's more normal even in Nigerian homes. We also use the storage room to keep some produce like tomatoes, potatoes and peppers. The floor is cement and it stays very cool, so the produce will last well there.

And finally our bathroom. The shower is great and the hot water is plentiful, so we're happy.

We also have two bedrooms one with a king size bed for us, and the spare room has its own bed as well. The house has a lot of storage, so it's been great to put away all our things and hide the suitcases, so we don't have clutter all around us. We're happy in our little home and are well settled.