Some of you may have heard of some problems we were having with our house: once the rains came in we discovered quite a few leaks in the house, particularly in our bedroom. It was like playing musical chairs to find a spot for the bed not under a leak. Once the pluming broke, I decided we needed to find a new house.
On a walk we stumbled on a vacant house just outside the primary school compound. We couldn’t get inside but through windows we saw there was a large kitchen, with cabinet space, two bedrooms with closets, and a nice size sitting room. When Lucas told me the primary school owned the house, I set about getting us moved into it. At first Mma Petso, the head master of the school was reluctant to let us move. But after it was discovered the leaks of our house could not be repaired, she gave us the keys to the new house. We were ecstatic!
The new house has running water and electricity (we had been out of running water for 30 days). The one down side is we have to abandon our garden we worked so hard on. But we have plenty of yard space for a new one. After spending a day or two fully cleaning and re-arranging the new house, we needed help moving our things from one house to the other. We decided to recruit the students.
We borrowed a truck to move the major pieces of furniture. Once that was finished, we took our posts: Lucas was packing up and boxing things from the old house, while I was sorting and making homes for the things in the new house. In between were the kids in a line carrying it all. I was amazed at how much one kid could carry. One in particular kept telling Lucas to keep giving him more until he was weighed down. Two kids about 6 and 8 years old carried sitting chairs.
When Lucas was boxing up my tampons, a child asked “ke eng?” which means ‘what is that?’ Lucas tried to explain, “It’s for Lesedi.” The kid insisted they were sweets. Lucas finally had to open one up to convince him it wasn’t candy. After all was said and done, we were all moved and all it cost us was cookies and a pitcher of juice.
I thought your other house was really pretty, but I understand why you wanted to move. I love your curtains in the new house. It's funny to see you with a Christmas tree and in a tank top. Lucas's spoon holder is very cleaver. Is it not dangerous? Our guest bath is not too dissimilar to your tub. It is very narrow but deep - best for showers and not baths. Your closet is huge - I think Lundy Drive was smaller than that. Any word on when they might fix your other house?
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