Africa Day Six
(Wednesday 12/15/99)
Another day of house shopping…
It looks like we have found a place that we mostly like. It is a three bedroom one floor house in a
large compound in Millimani. They are
putting some serious looking spikes on the wall right now and the compound area
is full of branches and building materials. There isn’t a lot of grass, but there are a couple of banana
trees. We’ve dubbed it the Miami Vice
house because of the striking use of pastels in the decor. It is a pretty good house, all things
considered. You are all more than
welcome to visit if we end up with it (I’ll post pictures when I can.)
We went to visit once during the afternoon and then Kim’s boss, Feiko,
stopped by and we looked at a couple of houses, including the Miami Vice house
again. One of his questions to the guy
that was taking care of the house, as well as setting up possible takers, was
whether or not the roof leaked. He
said, predictably, “no, no, no. It
never leaks.
About an hour later it started pouring rain. A couple of minutes after the rain started, the power went
out. I guess that it happens almost
every time it rains here. I’m going to
keep this pretty brief right now because it looks like it is going to rain
right now. As the power went out Feiko
called back to see if we wanted to go and look at the house now that it was
raining. So we went back again, for the
third time in the same day, to take a look.
Predictably, the roof was leaking, although not as severely as could
have been the case. He told us that they
would fix it first thing in the morning.
We’ll see…