As you enter the front door, you are in the dining room. She has a breakfront and table and chairs there and I hope you can see the fresh fruit bowl on the table. A papaya, cantaloupe, bananas, apples, mangoes, avocados, guayabas and limes greet you with their wonderful aroma as you enter the house . Today there is a jicama on top too.
The living room is just beyond the dining room past the railing.
On the other side of the dining room is the kitchen with the pass-through.
The living room has a sofa, loveseat and a big comfy chair. The little TV tray hold our computers. The Internet is hooked up there.
Here is the other side of the living room. The stairs lead up to a family room, 2 more bedrooms and 2 baths.
From the second floor, there is a set of stairs to go up on the roof where there is a lovely, tiled terrazzo, the boiler for the hot water and her washing machine. If a family has a washing machine, it is usually outside, covered with a plastic material to protect it from the weather.
You can see my bedroom next to the stairs.
This is my bedroom. The bed is wooden, very sturdy, and the mattress sits directly on the bedstead---no springs---but it is very comfortable. Lety put one of her dining room chairs and a TV tray there for me to use. My suitcase stands in the corner and holds my blanket (which I have used every night so far!) It is very convenient to have the TV tray to hold my clock, glasses and journal.
The windows are sliding doors which open out onto the back patio which is surrounded with a 10' wall---a very private area.
On the other wall is my closet and the door leading out to the living room.
When houses are built, there is usually no built in closet. This wooden closet is installed separately and there are roomy drawers to hold my "stuff"! The bedroom door swings closed so i use my sandals as a doorstop! (Any better suggestions for a doorstop?!!)
On the subject of closets, the master bedroom, upstairs, has a huge walk-in closet as well as a huge bath, complete with jacuzzi tub and a large shower.
This full bath is accessible from my room as well as from the living room. (Note the water bottle for brushing teeth!)
The shower is larger than mine at home! It is a nice bathroom.
Back to the front of the house and the kitchen. All stoves are gas which is supplied by a tank which one buys when the old one empties---and you never know when that will happen! This morning Lety was cooking and the flame went out: no more gas! The gas man will be around tomorrow.
Don't know if you can see it or not, but next to the stove in the front is a spoon holder and a small bottle with a white cap which is Microdyn. We wash our fruit and vegetables and then submerge them is a bowl of water to which 2 drops of Microdyn is added to clean them for eating. Any fruit or vegetable which will not be peeled is put in Microdyn.
Next to the fridge are 2 small pantries. Be careful or you will hit your head as you duck to go in! But they hold a lot. Lety stores lots of her school supplies there as well as food.
As you can see, she doesn't have much furniture yet as she has only lived in this house about one year. She is saving to buy furniture, but first, she says, she needs to finish paying for the house. The Mexican people don't have mortgages like we are used to having and thus they must save their money to finish building their house, to add on to their house (such as closets) or to buy furniture. She does have a couple extra mattresses and a couple blow-up mattresses upstairs which she willingly pulls out for extra guests! She has made me feel very much at home here.
I am having a different living experience this time while I am in PV. My home in the fall was with the hard-working, lower, middle class and now this encounter offers me a contrast. I highly value both exposures.
Hasta luego.
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