Welcome Home!

The official tour of the VMM house where 2 other volunteer couples have lived and worked (and made many improvements to the house each year!—Thanks, friends!) And where we will be living for the next two years! We are already very much enjoying this space, our neighbors and the indoor/outdoor connection that many Nicaragua houses have.

It also helps that we have been sleeping wonderfully and have been able to cook our own (delicious) food in our own kitchen. There are so many positives to living with a host family in a cross-cultural experience, but there is something ever so valuable about having your own personal space. A place to relax, reflect and even speak a little English when Spanish is making your head spin!

Welcome to our home….

We begin our tour here at the front of our house….Painted a lovely blue by Davie and Sarah. We live right next to the alcaldia (mayor’s office) and live on what seems to us like “Main Street”, in a town of about 5 different streets!

Come on in….

This first room you walk into is open space…On Wednesday it is used as a natural medicine clinic for a lady who comes in from one of the villages outside of town. We use it for working out (Yoga and Insanity, mostly) and we have a few ideas on how to use it as a common room…possibly finding some rocking chairs or other seats to fill the space.

There are two guest rooms off of this common space. There is a double bed and single bed—Mosquito net included! Plenty of room for visitors!!

Continue through the common room into what we have named the “breeze way”. This area has already been used in a variety of ways….Adult English class, laundry organization, dinner/lunch, and a cool spot to read. We hope to get a hammock set-up in this area for more relaxation potential. See our backyard straight through, kitchen door on the right, and bedroom door is in the shadow on the left.

Welcome to our bed room…Hey Ash Jan, do you like my hanging plant??

Our bed is covered in a mosquito net. We have a wonderful wardrobe to store our clothes, a book shelf, and a desk.

….and my favorite part! The mood lighting

Across the “hall” is the kitchen! It’s a great size, with a gas stove/oven, a refrigerator and a sink to do our dishes!

Already getting our fridge decorated with a  few people you may know…

And then there’s our outdoor space. Pictures can’t really do it justice, but between the mango trees, basil and aloe plants and banana trees we should be all set! Oh AND  just beyond those trees is our lovely latrine…still getting used to the outhouse life…but I am sure by next month it will be old news. I hope!

And finally our laundry”room”. A pila for hand washing our clothes. We waiting 2 weeks too long to do our first load and spent a lot of our weekend washing clothes by hand. Note to self: Wash clothes every other day   There’s also a shower right around the corner behind Kyle. We’ve got a pretty great set-up here in San Nicolas!

Thanks for coming on our tour!! We hope many of you get to see this in real life   Visitors are always welcome and encouraged!

As always, thanks for your continued prayers, notes/emails, love, and support! We seem to be transitioning fairly well…but the language is definitely a challenge. Continued prayers for language acquisition and patience in the process are very much appreciated!

Love,

Alli+Kyle