I HAVE A HOUSE!

It needs a lot of work, but I should be able to move in on March 1^st.  It has 3 bedrooms, a kitchen area, a porch and a garden in the back.  I will have no running water, no warm place to take bucket baths and of course I will have an outhouse.  I shouldn't complain because I expected to face all of these hardships going into Peace Corps. What makes Armenia so difficult is that the living situation for every volunteer is different.  Most volunteers have running water for at least part of the day and an indoor toilet that they can flush with a bucket.  It sucks knowing that if I would have been placed in a different region then I could have moved into a furnished apartment.  Instead I’m moving into a house with a bed frame, table, chairs and dresser. That’s all, unless you count the dog who has made his home on my porch for the winter. My new neighbors and people from the art school have said that they will help me move and find everything I need to buy: Wood stove, wood, refrigerator, oven, mattress, etc. It will be a very interesting March!