Sean's year lease is up at our current apartment, and tomorrow we will be moving to a hotel until our next apartment is ready. We don't get any say with this new apartment, so I am excited/nervous to see what it's like. But before we leave, here are some pictures to show where I have spent most of my time over the past month.
Our living room, which also became our bedroom because it's the only room with AC. Sean plays play station while I blog, while I read, while I give him dirty looks to turn it off. :-) But I can't blame him, sooo little on TV, and he's very good about asking if it's ok with me.
The other half of the living room. Obviously it's supposed to be the dining area, but really acted more as a laptop/tech center for us. To get internet access, you have to sit on this side of the room.
Our overly red bathroom part 1, desperately in need of a shower curtain. The toilet is in another overly red room nearby, complete with red toilet seat.
My room, used only for clothes, shoes, and drying laundry.
Sean's room, used for his clothes and bags of Algerian gear. We stole his matress for the living room.
The 3rd bedroom, a.k.a. Sean's other room he moved his clothes to when his first room got too messy.
The super retro kitchen... so orange!
Our apartment was on the 3rd floor, so we had some stairs to hike. Luckily there were these windows/holes in the walls to let in a breeze. And I thought the view from these windows made for some cool artsy pics.
Probably my favorite place to be in the apartment was out on the balcony. See our Mediterrian view! (Hint: right in the middle of the picture, between the buildings, where it is a little darker blue)
One fun part about being on the 3rd floor was I could kinda spy on what's happening below me.
One down side of being up high-- the evil looking pigeons liked hanging out there too. This one looked more like a vulture to me. They would sit, sleep, and poop above doorways leading out to the balcony. And often scared the crap out of me.
The street our apartment is on. FOX movies was our movie store, where all movies are illegally burned, and unfortunately most are in french.
So that's it for pictures for now. I know people want to see more photos of people in Algeria, but it's kinda hard to sneak taking pictures when everyone is looking at me all the time, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I will keep trying. I'm hoping our hotel/next apartment will have a better view for spying. I also don't know what the internet situation will be at the hotel, so it may be 2 weeks or so until I get to another blog. We will see... "In sha'Allah" (which you hear alllll the time here, and means "God Willing").
In the year Sean has lived here, no progress has been made on this building....
yet we are woken up by the sounds of this garage/metal shop cutting metal shop every morning.
So that's it for pictures for now. I know people want to see more photos of people in Algeria, but it's kinda hard to sneak taking pictures when everyone is looking at me all the time, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I will keep trying. I'm hoping our hotel/next apartment will have a better view for spying. I also don't know what the internet situation will be at the hotel, so it may be 2 weeks or so until I get to another blog. We will see... "In sha'Allah" (which you hear alllll the time here, and means "God Willing").
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