This coming Monday I'll be moving into another place. I've been looking for months but have not been able to find anything. My host family has been good to me, but its a small apartment with a lot of people and they need their living room back. We talked the other night and both agreed that it was time for me to find a new place. It's been stressful sharing the apartment with a lot of people recently and it will be nice to settle someplace a little calmer. I'll be moving into a house. It's an old house on the edge of town. I'll be a stone's throw from both the office and the mountains. There will be no running water and no toilet, which is the case for all houses in Karkaraly. I'll have to haul water from communal spickets on the street and my outhouse will be out back. The woman I'll live with, Aliya, is a ping pong trainer at the sports school. She seems nice. She has a husband but he isn't around, and two kids in the university.
This will be good for the blog because living in a house offers new experiences. We'll heat with coal during the winter and Aliya has a larger garden out back, though she told me the dog dug up a lot of her crop. I make the move on Monday and thus will be without internet until I can get the communications company out to install it. Next week promises to be busy with the move and a 4 day training (Thurs- Sun) on Photoshop and CorelDraw for the staff. I'll post when I can but it may be a week or so from now before you hear from me again.
This may give you an idea of where I'm moving to. 1: my current apartment; 2: my new home; 3: gambrill's home; 4: the office; 5: bus station- its a long walk now. haha
And my new place in relation to the office and the mountains. The trees are the beginning of the mountains.
