here is my awesome apartment. It works pretty well for my purposes. The one drawback is that the doorways are pretty low so i have to duck going through every one of them. i was pretty good about avoiding them last night when i was aware but not quite so lucky this morning when i was half awake. It kind of snuck up on me. i turned my head into the doorway and almost knocked myself down. It is going to make me hard headed (something i have never been).

i started out doing wash as i was unpacking my bags because i was getting low on the delicates (underwear). i was going to have to start turning them inside out and wearing them again. Drying might be a little bit of an issue because it takes them a while to hang dry. Hopefully they are done tomorrow morning as i need a pair. Hang drying your clothes always equated to being extra clean and smell nicey in my mind but i feel like that is not really the case here. The air is pretty polluted and it is in the middle of a city so it probably will not have that line dried freshness. we'll see.

this is the street outside my building. Lots of places to go and explore. There is a convenience store also right on the street that has stuff i can grab and try to figure out how much to pay for. Calculators are a boon in this case because they cut out the need for a common language.

the walmart is pretty close so i can grab more traditional supplies. Sheets, toilet paper, and what not. i am not sure how i feel about shopping at walmart seeing as how i disagree with almost everything they have done in the us. i have been looking around for another department store that i can walk to and avoid walmart going forward.

lets play a quick game. Look at the picture to the left and see of you can notice what is missing. My guess is that no one will see it because i did not until later.

the difference that i have been noticing every night when i walk home from work is the lack of street lamps. It makes it dark when walking around through different alleys to get home. It just seems to be a part of the way things are done here. i would be curious to know if it adds to the violent crime rate or not.

the building below is my building from the outside. i am living on the second floor though so not much of a view.